The following books are available via our associate company
Off The Grid - Managing independent renewable electricity systems. Surviving away from the mains. For homes, boats, caravans and more. How to design your system. How to decipher the jargon. Where to find consultant, further information and suppliers. An excellent book and a must for anyone considering generating their own energy.
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Out of the Woods - Designs for timber frame self build. - Building your own home is becoming increasingly more popular as a way out of the housing crisis . Using this full colour book you can also make the most environmentally friendly building - and one that is cheap to heat ! Profusely illustrated with 192 full colour plans and photographs of existing buildings with the positive elements and drawbacks of every possible design feature. How to get from a rough idea to the finished plans and design the house of you dreams within your budget.
Windpower Workshop: Building Your Own Wind Turbine - 160 pages
Hugh Piggott Foreword by Tim Kirby (British Wind Energy Association).1997
It is extremely satisfying to create your own power from a natural resource. Windpower Workshop explains very clearly:
* The nature of wind turbines
* Making them from 'scrap' materials
* The wind resource
* Economics
* Safety issues
* Generators (re-using and finding)
* Rotor blades (design and construction)
* Speed matching
* Mechanical and electrical controls BUY THE WINDPOWER WORKSHOP
* Towers and cables
* Batteries
* Useful equations
* UK resource guide
NF12 - Sewage Solutions: Answering the Call of Nature - 190 pages
Nick Grant, Mark Moodie & Chris Weedon Foreword by Rob Jarman (National Trust)Sewage can be a source of nutrients to feed soil and plants. Whether you are connected to the mains or not, this book helps you make the best choices for small scale sewage treatment - dealing safely with the sewage of up to about 50 people.
* Typical water flow through the household
* Compost toilets
* Reed beds
* Septic tanks
* Cess pits
* Solar ponds
* How to collect and use urine and water from the bathroom and kitchen
* UK resource guide BUY SEWAGE SOLUTIONS
IT 1 Pumps as Turbines: A users guide - Arthur Williams A practical handbook to the use of standard pump units as a low-cost alternative to conventional alternatives for electricity generation in remote locations. For engineers and technicians designing small water-power schemes.
IT2 Motors as generators for Micro-Hydro power - Nigel Smith This is a guide to the use of induction motors for electricity generation in remote locations. It is written as a practical handbook for engineers and technicians involved in designing and installing small water power schemes for isolated houses and communities. The manual arose out of the practical experience of manufactures and installers of induction generator units working in village locations in a number of countries.
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Wind Power for Home & Business: Renewable Energy for the 1990s and Beyond (Real Goods Independent Living Books)
A
comprehensive guide to using wind to power private houses and small businesses
and farms. Describes and illustrates the wide range of systems now commercially
available; suggests criteria for citing; includes equations for figuring out the
power potential of various sizes in various conditions