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Natural Home Heating: The Complete Guide to Renewable Energy Optionsby Greg Pahl
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:Natural Home Heating is the first comprehensive guide to heating your home with renewable energy sources. Greg Pahl offers a well-organized, easy-to-understand tour of all available home-heating options, including traditional oil and gas furnaces, wood stoves and masonry heaters, active and passive solar systems, and heat pumps. Included is everything you need to know about the fuels, systems, technologies, costs, and advantages and disadvantages of each option. Pahl teaches homeowners how to retrofit existing heating systems and choose renewable replacements, or design an entirely new house that can be heated comfortably with minimal environmental and financial impact.<P> Consider:<br> - 95% of American homes are heated with fossil fuels.<br> - Oil and gas prices are up by more than 20% as supplies dwindle and sources become less reliable.<br> - Home heating costs could double or even triple in the event of a fuel crisis.<br> - The fossil fuel economy is unsustainable.<br> - There are viable, clean, healthy, and afford able home heating alternatives!<p> Learn how to burn environmentally friendly bio-diesel fuels, not just in your car, but in your furnace. Find out how a ground-source heat pump works and why it can achieve 400% heating efficiency. Discover what it takes to make burning wood truly sustainable. Natural Home Heating explains all these details and more, making it unique in the marketplace. Book News Annotation:Pahl (a journalist) surveys renewable energy options for heating
homes, with attention to wood, pellet, corn, grain, masonry heaters,
solar power, and heat pumps. He describes the fuels, systems,
technologies, costs, and advantages and disadvantages of each heating
option. And he provides instructions for retrofitting heating
systems or designing affordable and environmentally friendly homes.
Diagrams and black-and-white photographs help illustrate the
instructions.
Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) Review:"Here is the comprehensive guide to heating your home without heating up the planet. For warm feet and a clear conscience, this is the book you need."--Bill McKibben, author of Enough! Staying Human in an Engineered World Synopsis:Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-274) and index.
Synopsis:Learn how to burn environmentally friendly bio-diesel fuels, not just in your car, but in your furnace. Find out how a ground-source heat pump works and why it can achieve 400% heating efficiency. Discover what it takes to make burning wood truly sustainable. "Natural Home Heating explains all these details and more, making it unique in the marketplace. What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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