Your Solar Energy Home: Including Wind and Methane Applications

by Derek Howell

Overview

Your Solar Energy Home: Including Wind and Methane Applications considers the worldwide domestic use of solar energy. This book is divided into 18 chapters that also cover the consumption of wind energy and methane. The opening chapters present data on solar energy usage in various countries, including the United States, United Kingdom, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and Canada. The succeeding chapters deal with the collection and storage of solar energy, as well as the design and production of solar collector. Other chapters describe scheme for solar home heating and solar domestic hot water. These topics are followed by discussions of wind and water power schemes. The final chapters highlight the production, use, and economics of methane gas.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781483165493
Publisher:	Elsevier Science
Publication date:	10/22/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	238
File size:	6 MB

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Solar Energy in the U.S.

Chapter 2: Solar Energy in the U.K. and Europe

Chapter 3: Solar Energy in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Canada

Chapter 4: How to Collect Solar Energy

Chapter 5: How to Store Solar Energy

Chapter 6: Combined Collector-Stores - Passive Systems

Chapter 7: How to Use Solar Energy

Chapter 8: The Sun's Contribution

Chapter 9: Producing a Solar Collector

Chapter 10: Solar Heated Domestic Water - 5 Schemes

Chapter 11: Solar Heating - 4 Simple Schemes

Chapter 12: Heat and Hot Water Schemes

Chapter 13: Thomason, Home Heating and Hot Water

Chapter 14: A Backyard Solar Furnace

Chapter 15: Wind and Water Power Schemes

Chapter 16: Production and Use of Methane Gas

Chapter 17: The Economics of Solar Energy

Chapter 18: Future Developments of Solar Energy

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Index