Fuel Savers: A Kit of Solar Ideas for Your Home

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by: Bruce Anderson

Topics include: batch heater, insulating curtains, insulating shutters, fuel reduction, absorber plate, using solar energy, collector area, wall heater, solar water heaters, heating season, thermal mass, collecting surface

Editorial Reviews

Paul Hawken, Author "Growing a Business" A most practical, step-by-step guide for individuals and homeowners to one of the most important issues we face: reducing our wasteful dependence on fossil fuels. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Eric Heitz--The Energy Foundation
The Fuel Savers is truly solar made simple--a friendly guide to solar energy for homes with lots of pictures and good advise. Bruce Anderson's recommendations make sense for the pocketbook and for the environment. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Paul E. Ehrlich
Solar energy will surely be the key to a safer future, and everyone can start entering that future now, thanks to this user-friendly, helpful book. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Book Description
The Fuel Savers contains a wealth of ideas that can be easily adapted to almost any building. From insulating curtains to solar hot water heaters, each idea is examined for materials costs, fuel reduction, advantages and disadvantages, and cost-effectiveness.

About the Author
Bruce Anderson has written five books on solar energy, including the New York Times betseller THE SOLAR HOME BOOK. He has been an environmental advocate, entrepreneur, and so-founded Earth Day 1990 with former Senator Gaylord Nelson, foundr of Earth Day. He was the first receipient of the American Solar Energy's Lifetime Solar Contributor award.

Reviews:

A GREAT START TO FIND OUT ABOUT SOLAR ENERGY: WHEN, I FIRST GOT "THE FUEL SAVER" IN THE MAIL I WAS A LITTLE BIT UPSET ABOUT THE SIZE. BUT, AFTER READING THE BOOK I FOUND THAT IT HELPED ME A LOT, WITH JUST 81 PAGES THAT HAVE ALL THE INFORMATION THAT I NEEDED TO GET STARTED ON MY OWN SOLAR SYSTEM. IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR A BOOK ABOUT PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS, THIS IS NOT THE BOOK FOR YOU. BUT IF YOU WANT TO REDUCE YOUR ELECTRIC BUILD BY USING SIMPLE METHODS, THIS IS THE BOOK. IT'S EASY TO READ AND UNDERSTAND. THE APPENDIX IS OUTSTANDING FOR FUTURE REFERENCES.