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Power with Nature: Alternative Energy Solutions for Homeowners

Name: Power with Nature: Alternative Energy Solutions for Homeowners
Author: Rex A. Ewing
ISBN: 9780965809894

by Rex A. Ewing

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Overview

Be your own power company and let Mother Nature provide the energy! By investing in affordable, new technologies, you can join the thousands of homeowners who get free electricity from the sun, wind and water. In this updated 2nd edition of Power With Nature, you’ll learn how easy it is to use renewable energy to become self-sufficient and live well anywhere! - Off-Grid Solar PV, Wind & Micro-Hydro Systems
- Homeowner Profiles ("Personal Power Companies")
- Utility Grid-Tie Options
- Sizing Your Renewable Energy System
- Charge Controllers, Inverters, Batteries
- Putting It All Together Safely
- Heating of House and Water (solar hot water, wood stoves/boilers, corn stoves, and more)
- Pumping Water
- Worksheets, Maps, Resources, Glossary, Index and much more!

Synopsis

- Off-Grid Solar PV, Wind & Micro-Hydro Systems
- Homeowner Profiles ("Personal Power Companies")
- Utility Grid-Tie Options
- Sizing Your Renewable Energy System
- Charge Controllers, Inverters, Batteries
- Putting It All Together Safely
- Heating of House and Water (solar hot water, wood stoves/boilers, corn stoves, and more)
- Pumping Water
- Worksheets, Maps, Resources, Glossary, Index and much more!

About the Author, Rex A. Ewing

Rex Ewing has lived blissfully off-grid with solar and wind energy since 1999 when he left the dusty plains of Colorado and headed for the Rockies to build his wife, LaVonne, a long-promised log home. When he's not writing books or magazine articles about renewable energy-or his first love, horses-he and LaVonne are probably trekking through the back country, canoeing, or enjoying the 50-mile view from their deck.

Before moving to the mountains to concentrate on his writing, Ewing raised grass hay and high-strung Thoroughbred race horses in the Platte River valley. Whenever his employees were clever enough to corral him behind a desk, he served as CEO of a well-respected equine nutrition firm, where he formulated and marketed a successful line of equine supplements worldwide.

Ewing's books include Got Sun? Go Solar; Power With Nature; HYDROGEN-Hot Stuff Cool Science; Logs, Wind and Sun; and Beyond the Hay Days. His renewable energy magazine columns can be found in Log Homes Illustrated and Countryside & Small Stock Journal.