How to Build the Perfect Off-Grid Home: Let the Sun Rain Down on Your Solar (Paperback or Softback)

Spanfelner, Roxyann

ISBN 10: 1644382490 / ISBN 13: 9781644382493

Verlag: Abuzz Press 10/25/2018, 2018

Beschreibung

How to Build the Perfect Off-Grid Home: Let the Sun Rain Down on Your Solar 1.03.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers BBS-9781644382493

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: How to Build the Perfect Off-Grid Home: Let the Sun Rain Down on Your Solar (Paperback or Softback)
• Verlag: Abuzz Press 10/25/2018
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 1644382490
• ISBN-13: 9781644382493
• Einband: Paperback or Softback
• Zustand: New
• Buchtyp: Book

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Inhaltsangabe

Determine whether it is better for you to go gridless or modify your energy grid-based system

Design a floor plan utilizing the best passive and active energy options including deep porch overhangs for cooling

Find the right contractors to oversee the project and set up a contract

Select the right building materials, appliances, and lighting to maximize energy savings

Assess the pros and cons of wind and solar energy alternative-power systems including generator options

Create and operate your own “private utility company” for power generation, waste disposal and water collection for use with fire hydrants coupled to a 3000 gallon water storage tank and booster pump system that also irrigates orchard and provides backup water storage

Set up a maintenance schedule for your system including how to equalize the batteries

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Spanfelner and husband Gary live on their off-grid cattle ranch with Greta, their Belgian Shepard, joining about a million others across America. Maybe you should too! If you're on the fence, this book will have you leaping over it into "greener pastures" -reaping the rewards of total self-sufficiency.