Wind Power and Home-Built, DIY Turbines Books
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Power From the Wind: Achieving Energy Independence from New Society Publishers Price: $14.13 Customer Review:  What can the wind do for the world's power problems? "Power from the Wind: Achieving Energy Independence" discusses how people can use wind power to power their own homes on a small scale, reducing power consumption bills. Wind is cheap and renewable; to not harvest it for use is wasteful. Outlining... |
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Wind Power For Dummies from For Dummies Price: $12.22 Customer Review: If you're looking for a resource that covers most everything about residential size wind generators, this book is as good as anything you'll find. It has chapters on how to figure how much wind you have at your site, wind generator types, towers and how to erect them, legal issues, costs and how long it will take for your generator to pay for itself. The use of wind for off-grid and grid tied applications are compared. Maintenance and safety are covered in great detail. In fact, after you read the safety chapter you may decide that wind is not for you. If that's the case, you're in luck, there's a whole chapter on alternatives to wind: photovoltaics, hydro and solar thermal. A chapter on home energy conservation is also included. The amount of information can be overwhelming, but the author does a good job of tying it all together. The author, Ian Woofendan, has been writing articles on wind and renewable energy for Home Power magazine for many years, and has wind and solar power at his own home. He has a lot of practical, hands-on knowledge that is evident in WPFD. I've lived with small scale wind over ten years... more info |
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Wind Energy Basics, Second Edition: A Guide to Home- and
Community-Scale Wind-Energy Systems from Chelsea Green Publishing Price: $17.85 Customer Review: Fantastic and easy-to-read explanation of what can be done NOW to make our cities and countries free from fossil fuels. As the title reveals, this is a Basic introduction without too many technical details of how a homeowner or small business / estate can go about 'getting off the grid', with... |
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Homebrew Wind Power from Buckville Publications LLC Price: $23.55 Customer Review: This book is a must read if you want to build your own windmill. Even if you don't want to build a windmill, you will learn tons about electricity and how small windmills work. This is a multi-discipline book, with information on steel fabrication, woodworking, magnets, electricity, wiring, and more. I bought this book after I read it because it is that good! It is easy to understand, and makes the project do-able. |
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Wind Energy Handbook from Wiley Price: $129.16 Customer Review: A deep look into the wind energy and wind conversion. Very extensive and deep into details considering the wind power technical aspects. I strongly advise for those in the technical wind energy area dealing with it. |
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Windpower Workshop from Centre for Alternative Technologies Price: $93.27 Customer Review: This book contains real practicality, not just empty theory. Talk about "put your money where your mouth is" - Hugh lives on a remote spit of land in Northern Scotland that doesn't even have roads, much less access to the power grid. If necessity is the mother of invention, there's good reason why he was highly motivated to develop the kinds of simple airfoils and low speed alternator combinations that produced real power. This rudimentary experience has taken him all over the world for installations and workshops. I guess having someone like that around makes him a pretty popular guy with his neighbors. This book covers the theory necessary to understand wind energy basics, and proceeds as a how-to manual on shaping a simple turbine out of wood. It then shows how to build... more |
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