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50 Green Projects for the Evil Genius
CITATION
Shariff, Jamil
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50 Green Projects for the Evil Genius
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US
: McGraw-Hill/TAB Electronics, 2008.
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50 Green Projects for the Evil Genius
Authors:
Jamil Shariff
Published:
December 2008
eISBN:
9780071549608 0071549609
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9780071549592
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Book Description
Table of Contents
Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgments
1 Introduction
2 Transportation
Project 1: Estimating Your Existing Transportation Related Emissions
Project 2: Finding Another Way Around
Project 3: Flat Isn’t Phat
Project 4: Round and Round
Project 5: Driving Smart
3 Staying Inside
Project 6: Fabric Walls
Project 7: Fixing Your Windows
Project 8: Using Thermal Mass
Project 9: Testing Methods of Insulating
4 Waste and Value
Project 10: A Worm Compost Bin
Project 11: Making a Bit of Methane
Project 12: Return Your Trash
Project 13: Ant Rules
Project 14: Seed Bombs
5 Efficiency
Project 15: Installing an Energy-Efficient Light Bulb
Project 16: Calculating Your Energy Savings from Project 15
Project 17: Auditing Your Appliances with an Energy Meter
Project 18: Getting Used to “Better Than Off”
Project 19: A Responsible Shopping List
6 Using Water
Project 20: A Simple Water Purifier
Project 21: Evaporative Cooling
Project 22: Saving Water around the House
Project 23: Collecting Rainwater
7 Heating with the Sun
Project 24: A Simple Solar Cooker
Project 25: Simply Heating Water with the Sun
Project 26: A Circulating Water Heater
Project 27: Solar Thermal Panels on your Roof
Project 28: Solar Thermal Hot Water on the Roof of Your House
8 Water and Air
Project 29: A Model Water Wheel
Project 30: A Model-Sized Water Wheel
Project 31: The Spiral Water Pump
Project 32: Making a Fire Piston
9 Heat and Power
Project 33: Demonstrating the Power of Hot Air
Project 34: The Energy of a Hot Cup of Tea
Project 35: Concentrated Solar Thermal Motion
Project 36: A Thinking Man’s Cold
10 Electricity
Project 37: The Homopolar Motor
Project 38: A Coin Battery
Project 39: Take One Room Off-Grid
11 Solar Electricity
Project 40: Assembling a Solar Module from PV Cells
Project 41: PV Panels on Your Roof
12 Wind Power
Project 42: A Plastic Cup Vertical Axis Drag Turbine
Project 43: Raising a Guyed Tower
Project 44: Installing the Turbine
13 Alternatives to Your Car
Project 45: Traveling with a Leitra
Project 46: Frame and Fabric Tops
Project 47: A Zotefoam Fairing
14 Alternative Fuels for Transport
Project 48: A Blender Batch of Biodiesel
Project 49: Tearing Up Your Fuel System and Feeding in Waste
15 Spaces and Structures
Project 50: Building with Earth
Project 51: The $500 House
Project 52: Attend a Public Consultation or Planning Meeting
Index