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Producing your own power; how to make nature's energy sources work for you. Edited by Carol Hupping Stoner. Technical consultants: Eugene and Sandra Fulton Eccli. Illus.: Erick Ingraham.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: An Organic gardening and farming bookPublication details: Emmaus, PA, Rodale Press, Book Division [1975, c1974]Description: 322 p. illus. 23 cmISBN:
  • 0878570888
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 621.4
LOC classification:
  • TJ153 .H85
Contents:
Wind power. Electricity from the wind : ready-made units / Henry Clews -- Do-it-yourself wind generators / James B. DeKorne -- Water power. Small water power sites ; Building a hydraulic ram / Volunteers in Technical Assistance (VITA) -- Wood power. Heating and cooking with wood / Ken Kern -- Methane power. Methane gas digesters for fuel and fertilizer / The New Alchemy Institute West -- Our four-cow bio-gas plant / Sharon and James Whitehurst -- Solar power. Space heating with solar energy / Robert F. Girvan -- Homemade solar water heaters / Steven M. Ridenour -- Appendix I : Combining alternate energy systems / Donald Marrier, Ronald Weintraub, and Sandra Fulton Eccli -- Appendix II : Conservation of energy in existing structures / Eugene Eccli.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Books (30-Day Checkout) Books (30-Day Checkout) Nash Library General Stacks TJ153.S795 1 Available 33710000601190

Bibliography: p. [297]-308.

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Wind power. Electricity from the wind : ready-made units / Henry Clews -- Do-it-yourself wind generators / James B. DeKorne -- Water power. Small water power sites ; Building a hydraulic ram / Volunteers in Technical Assistance (VITA) -- Wood power. Heating and cooking with wood / Ken Kern -- Methane power. Methane gas digesters for fuel and fertilizer / The New Alchemy Institute West -- Our four-cow bio-gas plant / Sharon and James Whitehurst -- Solar power. Space heating with solar energy / Robert F. Girvan -- Homemade solar water heaters / Steven M. Ridenour -- Appendix I : Combining alternate energy systems / Donald Marrier, Ronald Weintraub, and Sandra Fulton Eccli -- Appendix II : Conservation of energy in existing structures / Eugene Eccli.