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The Home Energy Handbook: A Guide to Saving and Generating Energy in Your Home and Community

The Home Energy Handbook: A Guide to Saving and Generating Energy in Your Home and Community

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Synopsis

The Home Energy Handbook is CAT's definitive guide to saving and generating energy. Covering energy efficiency, insulation, passive solar, solar water heating, wood fuels, heat pumps, combined heat and power, solar PV, micro-hydro and small scale wind power, it shows you how to choose the right technology for your situation. Bringing together all the main energy saving and renewable technologies in one book, The Home Energy Handbook helps you make the most carbon- and cost-effective decisions whilst delivering the biggest improvements to quality of life, both in your home and in your community. The Home Energy Handbook prepares you for the big energy and climate challenges of the 21st century whilst showing you how to calculate and cut your carbon emissions in the most effective way. A comprehensive handbook for energy action that gives you the practical know-how to change the way you live and the big picture vision to change the world around you.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 252
 Publisher: Centre for Alternative Technology Publications
Published: 30 May 2012
ISBN 10: 1902175719
ISBN 13: 9781902175713

Media Reviews
Produced as a handbook rater than a scientific textbook, the authors have done away with formulas and unnecessary technical jargon and explain technical concepts in easy-to-understand terms. - Kevin Blunden, Association of Building Engineers It's like the Haynes Manual to energy in your home. [...] It demonstrates that with just a little imagination, lots of cooperation and the know-how, revolutionary things can be achieved. - Simon Brammer, Ashden UK Programme Manager A hugely valuable resource for individuals, households, communities and local and national decision makers. There is a revolution afoot in terms of how we imagine energy generation. This is its manifesto. - Rob Hopkins, founder of the Transition movement I highly recommend it to anyone who wants to understand and take control of their energy use, and especially to anyone who is thinking of renovating or building a house. It will give you the knowledge to plan well, make good decisions, and to know if someone is taking short cuts, or selling you a pup. - Cathy Debenham, yougen.co.uk
Author Bio
Allan Shepherd has written 15 books and is also CAT's publisher. His titles include 52 Weeks to Change Your World, Curious Incidents in the Garden at Night-time and The Organic Garden (a Daily Telegraph 'book of the year'). His writing has been described as 'inspirational', 'passionate' and 'entertaining'.Paul Allen is the head of External Relations at CAT and Director of CAT's Zero Carbon Britain project. He is a Climate Change Commissioner and sits on the Science Advisory Council for Wales, advising them on the latest developments in green technology and policy. Paul is an electrical engineer and has worked in the renewable energy sector for over 20 years. Peter Harper is the head of CAT's Research and Innovation department and co-author of Zero Carbon Britain 2030, Peter Harper has developed many tools for analysing personal carbon emissions. He has also been his own experiment, monitoring and recording his own transition to a low carbon lifestyle.