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:	Pergamon
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 Directory Index