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How to Convert Wood into Charcoal and Electricity
by Richard H. Buxton  Publisher Comments If you put wood into a pipe and heat it, gas, tar and water vapor will be driven off. You can pipe this gas around into the fire that is heating the pipe. When the whole unit cools, you can extract high grade charcoal. And we're talking about charcoal...
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Apollo's Fire: Igniting America's Clean Energy Economy
by Jay Inslee and Bracken Hendricks Publisher Comments In 1961, President John F. Kennedy ignited America's Apollo Project and sparked a revolution in space exploration. Today the New Apollo Energy Project is poised to revolutionize the production of energy and thereby save our planet. The nation that built...
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Photovoltaics: Design and Installation Manual
by Not Available (na) Publisher Comments Producing electricity from the sun using photovoltaic (PV) systems has become a major industry worldwide. But designing, installing and maintaining such systems requires knowledge and training, and there have been few easily accessible, comprehensive...
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Generators and Inverters: Building Small Combined Heat and Power Systems for Remote Locations and Emergency Situations
by Stephen D. Chastain Publisher Comments This book should probably be called “The Small Power Generation Bible” If you have any questions about small power generation then this is the book for you! Whether you want to build it or buy it, this book has all the essential details for...
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Solar Power Your Home for Dummies (For Dummies (Lifestyles Paperback))
by Rik Degunther Synopsis Features the ten best solar investments Make your home energy efficient and put solar power to work for you! Want to take advantage of solar power? This friendly, hands-on guide takes the mystery out of this energy source and shows you how to do...
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Do It Yourself Guide to Biodiesel: Your Alternative Fuel Solution for Saving Money, Reducing Oil Dependency, Helping the Planet
by Guy Purcella Publisher Comments Containing the most current and complete information available for would-be biodiesel makers, Do-It-Yourself Guide to Biodiesel offers a step-by-step path from the initial desire to do something good for the environment to the final stage of filling the...
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The Carbon Buster's Home Energy Handbook: Slowing Climate Change and Saving Money
by Godo Stoyke Publisher Comments Most people are unaware that environmental problems such as climate change can be easily avoided, at a profit, through the intelligent application of appropriate technology. The Carbon Buster's Home Energy Handbook describes how to achieve this goal in...
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Hydrogen As a Future Energy Carrier
by Andreas Z?ttel Publisher Comments This book fills the gap for concise but comprehensive literature on this interdisciplinary topic, involving chemical, physical, biological and engineering challenges. It provides broad coverage of the most important fields of modern hydrogen technology...
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Pumps As Turbines a Users Guide 2ND Edition
by Arthur Williams Synopsis A classic title updated with a new chapter. Practical energy provision for isolated houses and remote locations. As interest in the provision of decentralized electricity in the South increases, this practical handbook is as important as ever. Pumps as...
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Green Business: A Five-Part Model for Creating an Environmentally Responsible Company
by Amy K. Townsend Publisher Comments Though many companies have made great strides in improving their environmental performances, there is little standardization regarding which business components are being “greened.” This groundbreaking book offers a five-part model that companies...
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Green to Gold: How Smart Companies Use Environmental Strategy to Innovate, Create Value, and Build Competitive Advantage
by Daniel C. Esty and Andrew S. Winston 
Publisher Comments <div><div><div><div>The essential guide for forward-thinking business leaders who see the Green Wave coming and want to profit from it<br>This book explores what every executive must know to manage the environmental...
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Wind Energy Explained: Theory, Design and Application
by J F Manwell Synopsis This textbook is intended to provide an introduction to the cross-disciplinary field of wind engineering. It includes end-of-chapter tutorial sections (solutions manual available) and combines both academic and industrial experience....
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Biodiesel America
by Joshua Tickell and Meghan Murphy and Claudia Graziano
Powells.com Staff Pick Tickell, an expert on biodiesel, explains how biodiesel is the best alternative to gasoline in today's age of peak oil. America, with its insatiable appetite for fast food, uses more vegetable oil for frying than any other nation. Why not turn that fat...
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Business Guide to Sustainability
by Darcy Hitchcock and Marsha Willard Publisher Comments ***Recipient of the 2007 OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLE AWARD from Choice**** A no-nonsense guide on how to green your office or business.* Practical strategies that can be implemented at the department and enterprise level* Applies to businesses, not-for...
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Geothermal Heat Pumps: A Guide for Planning and Installing
by Karl Oschsner Synopsis * Introduces basic theory and reviews a wide variety of available heat pump models* Will put any installer, engineer or architect in the position to design, select and install a domestic geothermal heat pump systemGeothermal Heat Pumps is the most...
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Oil on the Brain: Adventures from the Pump to the Pipeline
by Lisa Margonelli Publisher Comments Oil on the Brain is a smart, surprisingly funny account of the oil industry: the people, economies, and pipelines that bring us petroleum, brilliantly illuminating a world we encounter every day. Americans buy ten thousand gallons of gasoline a second...
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Gas-Engines & Producer Gas Plants
by R. E. Mathot Publisher Comments Building a steam engine is tough. Finding a dynamo simpler. But I don't want to be around a homemade boiler. There's a good chance that it's a bomb waiting to go off. There's a simpler way. Instead of burning coal or wood to make steam in an...
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Energy Autonomy: The Economic, Social and Technological Case for Renewable Energy
by Hermann Scheer Publisher Comments The new book from the internationally renowned author of The Solar Economy and A Solar Manifesto, and named one of Time Magazine's Heroes of the Green Century. For 200 years industrial civilization has relied on the combustion of abundant and cheap...
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Tomorrow's Energy : Hydrogen, Fuel Cells, and the Prospects for a Cleaner Planet (01 Edition)
by Peter Hoffman Publisher Comments andquot;President Bush's remarks in his State-of-the-Union message proposing a big jump in funding for hydrogen and fuel cell research and development are terrific news. It's imperative that Congress follows through now and makes available those funds...
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Fundamentals of Renewable Energy Processes
by Aldo V. Da Rosa Publisher Comments Fundamentals of Renewable Energy Processes contains the technical detail necessary to understand the engineering principles that govern renewable energy application at many different levels. Focused on the fundamental mechanisms and processes that...
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