Handbook of Homemade Power
£35.00
Softcover, pp. 374; illustrations throughout.
Even before the first issue of THE MOTHER EARTH NEWS–an ecology magazine–was published on January 1, 1970, its editors were predicting today’s (and tomorrow’s!) energy shortages. It was only natural, then, for the publication’s staff to regularly dig up and feature firsthand reports from people who’d already found ways to beat the developing power crisis. Folks like Steve and Holly Baer, who heat their strikingly modern home with the sun (and 90 recycled 55-gallon drums). Tom Oates, a North Carolina craftsman, who still uses DC electricity produced by a water wheel he installed nearly 40 years ago. L. John Fry, the South African pig farmer who has completely powered his house and barns for over six years with methane gas extracted from his animals’ manure. Henry Clews, who now operates two homes and a business on electricity made with a windplant. Mark Gregory, who never forgot that a house can be kept comfortably warm by burning that most traditional of all renewable resources … wood. The best of this priceless alternative energy information and many additional tips, facts and ideas have now been compiled into one extremely valuable and timely handbook. A handbook that can help you completely leapfrog all the electrical brownouts, fuel oil allocations, gasoline rationing and other desperate measures now offered as ‘”solutions” to the energy crisis.
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