Download or read book Local Energy Independence written by George Fitch and published by . This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Energy Independence written by Christine Woodside and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2008-12-16 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Energy Independence is the essential guide to the most viable and affordable alternative energy solutions for the everyday consumer—including solar panels, wind generators, hydrogen fuel cells, wood, hydro-electric, geothermal heat pumps, and more. For all those seeking either to supplement their traditional fuel-burning furnace or to revamp their home, this book has what they need to get started. They’ll learn about the most progressive and advanced options as well as tried and true energy conservation techniques. They’ll learn how much each method costs, and how quickly they will recoup any investment. Also including a chapter on alternative-fuel cars, this book has been revised and updated with the most recent stats, technology, costs, and advice. It is a must for anyone—urbanite, suburbanite, or rural dweller—who relies on traditional oil-burning sources but has decided it’s high time to be proactive both about cutting fuel costs and achieving freedom from fossil fuel dependence.
Download or read book Winning Our Energy Independence written by David Freeman and published by Gibbs Smith. This book was released on 2007-09-07 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winning Our Energy Independence shares energy solutions from S. David Freeman, a man who has spent his life at the forefront of energy policy.
Download or read book Energy Independence written by Gopal Kumar and published by Deep and Deep Publications. This book was released on 2005 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Energy Independence written by Alden M Hathaway, II and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 20th century is known to the entire world as a century of American greatness. Innovations in energy drove that American superiority; innovations such as oil pipelines, petroleum-based fuel, the light bulb, electricity, and the power grid. However, our legacy energy economy leaves us wanting in the 21st century. Centralized vulnerability, wasted generation capacity, dependence on foreign fuel, and climate change are financed by every one of us at the pump and in our monthly utility bill. However, "Energy Independence" is not about what is wrong with our current energy economy; rather it describes a bright future that is waiting to be unlocked. It presents a plan where the average homeowner can not only achieve energy freedom for their household, but usher in the new energy economy.
Download or read book Alaska Energy written by Alaska Energy Authority and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Alaska Energy Pathway written by Alaska Energy Authority and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Integrated Local Energy Communities written by Marialaura Di Somma and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2024-08-20 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introducing a framework for obtaining and maintaining renewable energy security at the local community level Local energy communities are a framework for assembling and coordinating major stakeholders, individual, corporate, and institutional, in the pursuit of long-term renewable energy and carbon-free projects in a given area. They are aimed at community benefits rather than profit, and have become an invaluable tool in the fight to reimagine the global energy grid, one community at a time. With climate change making this fight ever more urgent, integrated local energy communities (ILECs) that enhance the previous concept through a multi-carrier systems’ approach have never been a more important social force. Integrated Local Energy Communities offers a framework for designing, planning, and operating communities from end to end. Incorporating regulatory and policy issues, the mechanics of local multi-carrier energy systems, social aspects and more, it provides viable solutions to one of the most urgent energy challenges of our time. The result is an indispensable contribution to a potentially transformative process. Integrated Local Energy Communities readers will also find: Comprehensive coverage of all types of energy conversion technologies and processes Analysis of the entire value chain, from concepts to planning and operation Discussion of all key factors for integrating the ILEC energy paradigm Integrated Local Energy Communities is ideal for energy engineers, electrical engineers, mechanical engineers, engineering scientists working in consultancy and industry, as well as the libraries that serve them.
Download or read book SOLAR POWER written by Turgon Annárë and published by Turgon Annare. This book was released on 2020-12-06 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever wanted to save on electricity bills and without being dependent on energy? Want to protect your family from regular power outages and the negligence of local utilities? Your desire may be to get your energy bill lowered or be independent of the payment all together. Then Solar energy is the answer to all your expensive energy consumption. Solar power is the most abundant of all renewable resources available. It is essentially a source of achieving safe energy for household. It takes free power from the sun and uses it to power electrical equipment. More importantly, solar power does not harm the earth. Of course, it's not that simple. But solar power alone is a powerful resource with applications and benefits around the world. This book, SOLAR POWER: The best guide for solar electricity systems, for off-grid solar systems and for your home energy independence, it helps you achieve this by understanding the basics of solar components and using solar power. This easy-to-read solar component guide, written to explains all components of a photovoltaic system in a way that is easy for anyone with no technical background to understand. Based on a thousand hours of research and experience, the book contains practical solar information that cannot be found and applied by searching the web alone. This book shades lights in the following ways: How to know what solar power system to buy How to avoid the common mistakes, tricks and traps that salesmen will try to feed you How to size your solar power system so it will fit perfectly on your roof A step to step guide to installing your solar power systems and panels How to determine how many watts your house needs How solar power/panel works This book is useful to a wide range of readers, including technical and non-technical people, beginners and advanced solar power professionals, and engineering experts. This bestselling book answers all these questions and shows you how to use the power of the sun to generate electricity yourself. This amazing step to step guide on solar energy book is a practical and straightforward guide to using photovoltaic solar panels and all you will need to get it installed. Read this amazing book to discover all about solar energy, its benefit and how to get it working for you.
Download or read book Toward energy independence written by Solar Energy Society of Ireland and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Local Energy Autonomy written by Fanny Lopez and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2019-07-30 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, interest for local energy production, supply and consumption has increased in academic and public debates. In particular, contemporary energy transition discourses and strategies often emphasize the search for increased local energy autonomy, a phrase which can refer to a diverse range of configurations, both in terms of the spaces and scales of the local territory considered and in terms of what is meant by energy autonomy. This book explores policies, projects and processes aimed at increased local energy autonomy, with a particular focus on their spatial, infrastructural and political dimensions. In doing so, the authors – Sabine Barles, Bruno Barroca, Guilhem Blanchard, Benoit Boutaud, Arwen Colell, Gilles Debizet, Ariane Debourdeau, Laure Dobigny, Florian Dupont, Zélia Hampikian, Sylvy Jaglin, Allan Jones, Raphael Ménard, Alain Nadaï, Angela Pohlmann, Cyril Roger-Lacan, Eric Vidalenc – improve our understanding of the always partial and controversial processes of energy relocation that articulate forms of local metabolic self-sufficiency, socio-technical decentralization and political empowerment. Comprising fifteen chapters, the book is divided into four parts: Governance and Actors; Urban Projects and Energy Systems; Energy Communities; and The Challenges of Energy Autonomy.
Download or read book Power from the People written by Greg Pahl and published by Chelsea Green Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how homeowners, co-ops, nonprofit institutions, and other entities are putting power in the hands of local communities through distributed energy programs and energy-efficiency measures. Using examples from around the nation, Pahl explains how to plan and launch community-scale energy projects to harvest energy.
Download or read book Energy Options written by Seattle City Light. Energy Resources Planning and Management Division and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Turning Oil Into Salt written by Gal Luft and published by Booksurge Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Turning Oil into Salt: Energy Independence Through Fuel Choice Gal Luft and Anne Korin redefine energy independence and chart a compelling out-of-the-box route for America to get there.
Download or read book Strategies for Energy Independence Energy efficiency and economic competitiveness written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Water, Power, and Offshore Energy Resources and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Endependence written by Krystal M. Schuette and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rural Kansas communities are almost entirely dependent on large energy corporations. These corporations, in turn, are almost completely dependent on fossil fuels for energy production. Three major implications exist within these dependencies: 1) the dependence of rural communities on large corporations reduces the potential of a local economy to support itself; 2) the dependence on fossil fuels has severe environmental impacts; and 3) fossil fuels are non-renewable resources and will inevitably be exhausted. A rural Kansas community has resources necessary to achieve and maintain energy independence in a renewable manner. The design of these systems in regard to economy, society, aesthetics, technology, and ecology will play a key role in sustaining these resources into the future. The intent of the project is to create a tool for rural communities to evaluate localized renewable energy potential using Washington, Kansas as an example. Several questions were addressed to determine the capacity and feasibility of each local energy resource: What renewable energy resources are available to a rural Kansas community and are they sufficient for the community to achieve energy independence? How can the resource or its production be designed and maintained in regard to its environmental impact and long-term viability? What are the implications of energy independence for the community's identity? Because each question is dependent upon the answer to a previous question, a decision tree was the most viable method for the project's analysis and development. Research into the technology and science associated with each resource provided a general knowledge of the definitions associated with and processes necessary to determine the feasibility of the resource. For resources receiving a positive feasibility rating, analysis continued with a basic cost/benefit analysis that compares potential costs involving implementation and maintenance with the payback, offsets, and incentives involved in utilizing each resource. Analysis of each feasible resource continued with site suitability analysis. The analysis of each resource resulted in resource maps showing potential implementation locations for three renewable resources studied: hydro, wind, and solar. The maps and accompanying graphics communicate the integration of renewable energy technologies into the existing community's identity.
Download or read book Powering the Future written by Daniel B. Botkin and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
