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Energy Independence
, Your Everyday Guide to Reducing Fuel Consumption, by Christine Woodside, is a fantastic green living sourcebook with workbook and tip sheet areas for practical considerations of green living. From solar panels to wind generators, dependence on municipal energy systems and living off the grid are sustainably in view.
This book details how to discover fossil fuel alternatives and protect the environment. Legislation and governmental roles in energy use and projected effects are very readable here, versus the dry and unfocused news pulp these reports take the form of. Capturing geothermal heat via loops of pipe in the front yard is a practical solution to abstract talk.
This book underscores that this is the age of green techno science we are living in. The harnessing of a backyard stream with a micro-hydroelectric source may be actually possible today given the range of consumer websites servicing green and sustainable home owners.
Home energy independence means living off the grid, without dependence on managed power systens.
Living without electricity can mean some workaround solutions. Windup radios and flashlights can keep emergency situations under control. Low tech options like solar showers, where water is collected from rainwater catcment yet heated by solar reflectors, render a free shower, on Earth’s power bill!
Energy independence for many is a budgetary concern. Sure, those state of the art solar panels and gome generators are nifty. but don’t they cost the Earth? Projections of hybrid car savings make valid use of the dollar when arguing for green energy. The book also includes an “Appliance Manifesto” for sustainable living without abusive use of electricity at home.
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