Energy efficiency books
Check out these great e-books on energy efficiency topics
There are lots of energy efficiency books available for download (e-books) on the Internet.
Many of them make outrageous claims - such as that they'll show you how to run your car on nothing but water, or that they'll tell you how to build a home solar electric system for $200 that will eliminate your electric bills forever. Considering I had a system priced at $10,000 that would only cut my bill by a third, I am fairly sure that these claims are bogus.
But there are good energy efficiency books out there on fun do-it-yourself projects (solar water heater, solar pool heater) and ones that do a good job covering general energy efficiency topics. Check out the list below.
Note that most of the energy efficiency books listed here come with a 100% money back guarantee if you are not satisfied with them. You just need to request your refund before the trial period expires, which is usually 60 days from the purchase date. I've noted guarantee details for each book.
Do it yourself solar hot water heater
You can easily build your own solar water heater and save up to 33% off your electric bill every month while helping the environment.
This do-it-yourself solar water heater guide is easy to follow with step-by-step instructions and is very affordable. It doesn't replace your existing hot water heater - it pre-heats the water entering your hot water heater so that less natural gas or electrical energy is used to heat your hot water. You'll still have hot water night or day - but you could save hundreds a year on hot water costs.
All of the materials are available at most hardware stores and building centers, and typically cost less than $70. That means that for $100 or less (this book plus materials you buy), you could have a working solar hot water heater in as little as one weekend.
This could be a great money-saving project. If you have kids it can be a great way to teach them about energy efficiency and solar energy, and a fun project to work on with them.
Comes with a 60-day, no-questions-asked, 100% money-back guarantee.
Going Green in Your Home
People don't just decide to Go Green because they want to save on utility bills. There are a whole host of reasons for going green - from cutting costs, to leaving a better planet for our children, to the pleasure that comes from living a simpler life.
This inexpensive e-book helps you understand both the why and the how of going green. Learn the reasons why we all need to live more in harmony with the natural world, how to adapt your lifestyle to benefit the planet, and many tidbits of helpful information on green living: how, what, and where to recycle, how to make your garden or yard drought tolerant, how to compost kitchen and yard waste, and how to calculate your carbon footprint.
Comes with a 60-day, no-questions-asked, 100% money-back guarantee.
Home energy savings
This e-book contains over 60 pages of energy saving ideas that can help you cut your energy costs without sacrificing comfort.
The author, Wayne Pasture, has devised a "Home Energy Secrets System" that many readers have used to drastically cut utility bills.
The book helps you understand how to measure and understand your current energy consumption, estimate potential savings in each area of your home, find the biggest potential energy savings, and capitalize on the opportunities you find. This handy guide has everything conveniently located in one e-book. Get started on cutting your energy costs right away!
Comes with a 60-day, no-questions-asked, 100% money-back guarantee.
47 ways to save on energy costs
You can use this book to cut your heating and cooling costs, water costs, and electricity costs. The key is to understand your energy use and some tricks of the trade for saving energy - 47 of them to be exact! The guide covers ideas on cutting heating and cooling costs, reducing your cooking expenses, doing laundry more efficiently, and cutting your household water use, among other topics.
With energy prices likely to rise back to record highs within the next few years, if you're concerned about saving on your energy costs you'll want to monitor your energy use and find ways to cut it. This guide provide splenty of tips on how to do just that. Hundreds of dollars in savings are within reach - without your having to make changes to your lifestyle.
Why throw your money at the utility companies when you could live just as comfortably and keep 25% of that money for yourself?
If you are serious about saving money on your energy bills, you need to know every method there is available to do this, especially those that do not cause a change in lifestyle or are expensive to implement. As you continue doing things to save money on your energy bills, you will find that this will snowball and you will end up saving even more money each month, simply by being aware of the changes you can make.
Comes with a 60-day, no-questions-asked, 100% money-back guarantee.
Do It Yourself Energy Saving Kit
This DIY energy saving kit was designed to be the first complete home energy audit kit of professional quality available online. It combines the knowledge of government testing (which is incomplete at best) with the author's professional energy auditing experiencthat normally costs hundreds of dollars. The kit contains: This kit was designed to be the first complete home energy audit kit of professional quality available online. It combines the latest in government testing (which is incomplete at best) with the author's professional energy auditing experience, which normally costs hundreds of dollars. The kit contains:
- The energy saving inspection guide
- Printable energy audit sheets
- Energy audit worksheets (in xls Excel format)
- Sample of a filled out worksheet
- Energy loss calculators (in xls Excel format)
- Heating estimator calculator (in xls Excel format)
- Free energy tips guide
- Developing an energy saving plan guide
- Home buyer's energy checklist
Combined with the instructions in the guide, the kit contains everything a homeowner or renter would need to see how much money is being lost and how much could be saved in energy. The calculators translate energy lost into dollars, so a price tag is associated with common energy problems.
This book provides simple tips that can start you on the road to big energy savings within minutes.
How about a five-minute tweak that can save you $80 a year on your gas bill? Or a simple change to a bad habit, that cuts your electric bill by up to $30?
This book provides over 200 tips to lower energy costs - over 400 pages of content. Tips such as a $3 change that can reduce water consumption by 15%, or a one-minute change that cuts hot water costs by 15%.
All of these tips are available online - but this e-book gives you everything gathered and organized into one place, available on your computer - or printed off - whenever you need it.
Comes with an 8 week (56-day), no-questions-asked, 100% money-back guarantee.
The rewards of making energy efficient choices
Energy inspector and author David Nelmes has a genuine interest to help people conserve energy, but he's also a very practical person so he decided to help build a bridge between being environmentally aware and living a normal life, where you can live a greener life without feeling like you are losing anything at all.
Tips include installing a programmable thermostat to save on heating and cooling costs, making your swimming pool more energy efficient, cutting your energy costs for lighting, hot water, and cooking, and how to get a home energy audit.
With over 25 years experience in electrical, plumbing, heating and air-conditioning work, Nelmes has amassed a wealth of expertise that he has poured into this 145-page book. A big part of his approach is to use energy saving techniques to move away from fossil fuels, so that as much as possible of your home energy is supplied by electricity. This opens up the opportunity to produce some or all of your own energy, since you can generate your own electricity but you obviously can't produce your own heating oil or propane!
Comes with a 60-day, no-questions-asked, 100% money-back guarantee.
Geothermal heat pumps installation guide
This book has over 200 pages of thoroughly researched material on geothermal heat pumps. Geothermal energy is yours for the taking - free energy that can be used to heat and cool your home and provide you with hot water at a fraction of the energy cost of cooling with electricity, and heating or hot water with either electricity or natural gas.
The installation guide covers everything geothermal - the benefits, basics of a heat pump, space requirements, geothermal loop configurations, costs and government incentives to help offset those costs, and ideas for both contractor installs and do-it-yourself installs.
Geothermal Heat Pumps Installation Guide is the quickest and easiest way to learn about geothermal heat pumps, a relatively new technology that the US EPA has recommended as the most energy efficient, environmentally friendly, and cost effective space heating and cooling system available.
All of this information is available on the Internet or at libraries - there are no secrets here. But it's all gathered together in one convenient place for you, and at under $30 with a money-back guarantee, this is a great buy. It may help you reach a decision whether to 'go geothermal' in your home - and that decision could make a difference of thousands of dollars in heating and cooling costs over the next 10-20 years.
Comes with a 60-day, no-questions-asked, 100% money-back guarantee.
Understanding and Installing Your Own Solar Electric System
This book has everything you need to know to get cracking on your own solar electricity for homes project - just check out this sampling of topics covered:
- Conserving power - the first step to solar living
- How does solar power work, how to fully use it
- Sourcing your parts - the cheapest sources for all the parts you'll need
- How to build the actual solar panels
- Connecting multiple panels together
- Complete care instructions provided
- Many more important topics covered
The book also includes full diagrams to show you how to set up your system, and is written in plain English.
Electricity prices are rising, and are going to keep going up. If you're really serious about saving energy and money, generating your own electricity from the sun is the best way to go - no moving parts, and the system lasts for decades. Read this book discover how you can drastically reduce your power bill just by making your own solar power generator with the easy to follow instructions.
Comes with a 60-day, no-questions-asked, 100% money-back guarantee.
Save up to 50% on home energy
A different perspective on how to save energy in your own home. Author Peter Lindemann has 35 years experience developing and teaching about green technologies. This highly informative e-book, "Save on Home Energy", provides unconventional energy saving tips on hot water (more than just installing an insulating jacket), tips on cutting lighting costs by 50%, ideas on cutting heating costs while keeping the thermostat at a temperature you find comfortable, and how to use what industrial refrigeration experts have known for years to save on refrigeration in your own home.
The e-book comes with four sections:
* Orientation (2 chapters)
* Evaluation of your home (3 chapters)
* Implemenation (8 chapters)
* Costs and benefits (4 chapters)
The cost of the e-book is $47 US, and includes unlimited free upgrades as new issues of the book are released, along with video tutorials that will help you understand how to do some of the energy saving projects in the e-book.
Comes with a 60-day, no-questions-asked, 100% money-back guarantee.
Build a solar pool heater for under $100
If an eleven-year-old boy can build this solar pool heater, then so can you. This is a very inexpensive energy efficiency book that can provide hours of fun, educational activity as well as help save you money on heating your pool, or extend the shoulder season on an unheated pool by giving you extra weeks of pleasant pool temperatures in the spring or fall.
For $100 to $200 in materials mostly available from your local building center or garden supply shop, these instructions, and your own time, you can put this heater together and add weeks of enjoyment to your pool. There's no need for welding, machining, or precision work, no special skills or tools required. The e-book consists of a 14 page guide and detailed plans.
A single pool heater should be enough to add weeks of swimming to a pool of 6,500 gallons or less. Additional panels can be built for a larger pool.
Comes with a 60-day, no-questions-asked, 100% money-back guarantee.
Return from Energy efficiency books to the Green Energy Efficient Homes site home page.
© Green Energy Efficient Homes 2009 Privacy policy | Disclaimers | Advertise