The Energy saver's handbook: For town and city people - Hardcover
THE ENERGY SAVER'S HANDBOOK address both energy conservation and the use of renewable fuels in urban homes. Many can ill afford to pay for the escalating cost of home heating and find their homes are very much in need of energy conservation improvements. THE ENERGY SAVER'S HANDBOOK is divided into eight chapters: 1. Making an Energy Survey of a Building; 2. The Building Envelope, which describes the process of reducing heat loss; 3. Heating and Cooling Systems; 4. Managing Energy in the Home; 5. Renewable Energy Systems; 6. Large Scale Energy Conserving Systems, which discusses solar space and domestic water systems and wind systems; 7. Institutional Issues:; Lifting the Barrier to Energy Conservation; 8. Financing Energy Conservation and Renewable Energy Systems. These chapters speak directly to the occupants of the buldings concerned and to those who are doing structueral renovations on an urban residence and whish to make some energy improvements to it as well.
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- PublisherRodale Press
- Publication date1982
- ISBN 10 0878573739
- ISBN 13 9780878573738
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages322
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. David W. Conover (illustrator). First Edition. FIRST PRINTING of the First Edition. A complete, readable guide on how to reduce energy costs in countless ways, using cheap alternatives, utilizing 'natural' free energy from various sources, dollars and costs benefits analysis of typical building energe usage, easy and practical solutions to high energy usage, much more, the information and most of the technologies still very applicable today. Hardcover with dust jacket, illus., glossary, indexed, 322pp., d.j. shows one two-inch closed edgetrear. A very nice copy, the jacket neatly encased in an acid-free Brodart plastic protector. Very rare, especially in this condition. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book. Seller Inventory # 00008184
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