- ISBN13: 9780470596784
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
The bestselling alternative energy reference book in North America—now in an updated edition
Want to take advantage of solar power in your home? Whether you’re looking to save on your energy costs by adding a few solar components or you want to build a solar-powered house from the ground up, Solar Power For Dummies, 2nd Edition takes the mystery out of this energy source and shows you how to put it to work for you!
This new edition gives you hands-on tips and techniques for making your home more energy-efficient though solar power—and helping the planet at the same time. Plus, you’ll get all the latest information on changes to federal, state, and local regulations, laws, and tax incentives that seek to make solar-power adoption more feasible.
- Expanded coverage of the technology that underpins full-scale solar-power systems for the home
- New small- and mid-sized solar products, projects, and applications
- Rik DeGunther is a design engineer who started his own energy consulting firm
Featuring ten of the easiest and cheapest DIY solar projects, Solar Power For Dummies, 2nd Edition is the fun and easy way to meet your energy needs with this clean power source!
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What a waste. I am a firm believer that the the sun drives global warming/cooling. Wouldn’t you figure that a guy doing a book on solar power would figure that out? I also do not like waste. I think solar power is a smart move on its own merits. This book could save natural resources by sticking to the topic stated in its title and not doing the socialist propagandizing. 300 pages of waste (trees, shipping, ink etc.) and 66 pages of what you are buying the book for. It is the first and last DUMMIES book I buy as I’m no dummy.
Oh darn, Global warming turned out to be a hoax. Solar power is still a good idea. Just not this book.
Amazon User Rating: 1 / 5
Not worth the money, have read much better books, with more explanations and more details. Just not that good.
Amazon User Rating: 1 / 5
This is an excellent book. I received it quickly in good packaging and sooner than expected. Very interesting book.
Amazon User Rating: 5 / 5
This book really had all the basis covered all in a language we could understand. We gained the knowledge of how to make solar power an conversion throughout the house! That’s money saving knowledge that is hard to get from just searching the internet.
I could rant and rave about this book because I found I finally have a awesome and complete book that really fills all the blank spaces and mystery of solar panels. I am very excited about redoing a home that will save me allot of money each month rather then a money drain.
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Got Sun? Go Solar: Get Free Renewable Energy to Power Your Grid-Tied Home
Amazon User Rating: 5 / 5
Rik Degunther’s style is very easy to understand and he leaves no stone unturned in an effort to save the consumer money. He covers a lot of simple things you can and should do, even including how to economically turn on the faucet, before investing the bigger bucks into solar hardware. This book is fun to read and I especially enjoyed the emphasis on reducing our “carbon footprint”. Saving money is a good first motivation, but saving our environment should also factor into the bottom line, and his book constantly reminds us of this fact.
Amazon User Rating: 5 / 5