Energy

The Homeowner’s Guide to Renewable Energy: Achieving Energy Independence thro…
by Dan Chiras
Amazon Price: $21.24


Customer Review: This is a must have book for anyone wanting to read up on how to improve your environmental footprint. Good Source of information for both renewable energy and energy efficiency. The book is a easy read and I highly recommend this book as well as others that Dan Chiras has written. I love this auth…

 

Sun, Wind & Light: Architectural Design Strategies, 2nd Edition
by G. Z. Brown, Mark DeKay
Amazon Price: $57.31


Customer Review: An excellent book. A must have for any architect, builder, interior designer…

Just buy it.

 

Energy Trading and Investing: Trading, Risk Management and Structuring Deals …
by Davis Edwards
Amazon Price: $47.21


Customer Review: Excellent book which describes how physical constraints significantly impact the trading of electricity and natural gas. It explains the physics behind pipelines and power systems in a fairly accessible way however I imagine it would be quite difficult for people who have never done physics. It intr…

 

Solar Engineering of Thermal Processes
by John A. Duffie, William A. Beckman
Amazon Price: $106.65


Customer Review: Sure, its technical. But anyone with a college level understanding of physics and science should be fine. Thanks to this book, I was able to deal with the engineers that ‘energized’ my barns. Maybe bit pricey, but this was an excellent investment for me and turned out to be a useful resource for th…

 

Got Sun? Go Solar, Expanded 2nd Edition: Harness Nature’s Free Energy to Heat…
by Rex A. Ewing, Doug Pratt
Amazon Price: $13.60


Customer Review: GOT SUN? GO SOLAR offers homes on the grid many options for getting off the grid in an updated, expanded new second edition. Any library appealing to homeowners interested in alternative residential solar energy will find this a fine pick: easy to read, packed with information related in a non-techn…

 

Fuel Cell Fundamentals
by Ryan O’Hayre, Whitney Colella, Suk-Won Cha, Fritz B. Prinz
Amazon Price: $112.00


Customer Review: This book is pure awesome sauce on the topic of fuel cells. It goes over every concept from beginning to end in great detail. It’s almost as if it were written exclusively for me that it was so easy to understand and grasp. I’ve had few textbooks that read as well. It’ll definitely be a book tha…

 

Profiting from Clean Energy: A Complete Guide to Trading Green in Solar, Wind…
by Richard W. Asplund
Amazon Price: $43.87


Customer Review: Clean energy’s time has come. President Barack Obama’s administration is emphasizing this point and communities worldwide are confirming it. As a result, clean energy research has become one of today’s hottest topics, which makes Richard W. Asplund’s book especially timely. This comprehensive, schol…

 

Power with Nature Second Edition: Alternative Energy Solutions for Homeowners…
by Rex A. Ewing
Amazon Price: $16.50


Customer Review: I love this book and give the original edition five stars but was disappointed that the 2nd edition didn’t give a whole lot of additional info. Save your money and pick up a used 1st edition.

 

Renewable Energy Made Easy: Free Energy from Solar, Wind, Hydropower, and Oth…
by David Craddock
Amazon Price: $16.47


Customer Review: I only started this, then put it down. It is possible that the author knows the subject, but this is so poorly written that it did not inspire confidence for me. It reads like a self published book created without an editor. I prefer the many other good references on the subject.

 

Got Sun? Go Solar: Get Free Renewable Energy to Power Your Grid-Tied Home
by Rex A. Ewing; Doug Pratt
Amazon Price: $18.95


Customer Review: This definitely in no how to book. The author’s intent is to make you more knowledgeable prior to having a solar technician out. He does not to tell you how to do it yourself, he actually discourages it for several reasons which he lists. I think you can build them yourself. But he does show you how…