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ISBN 10: 0470496371 

ISBN 13: 9780470496374

Author: Ian Woofenden

The consumer guide to small-scale wind electricity production!

Maybe you’re not T. Boone Pickens, but you can build your own home-sized wind-power empire right in your back yard. Wind Power For Dummies supplies all the guidance you need to install and maintain a sustainable, cost-effective wind generator to power your home for decades to come.

This authoritative, plain-English guide walks you through every step of the process, from assessing your site and available wind sources to deciding whether wind power is the solution for you, from understanding the mechanics of wind power and locating a contractor to install your system to producing your own affordable and sustainable electricity.

• Guides you step by step through process of selecting, installing, and operating a small-scale wind generator to power your home
• Demystifies system configurations, terminology, and wind energy principles to help you speak the language of the pros
• Helps assess and reduce your energy needs and decide whether wind power is right for you
• Explains the mechanics of home-based wind power
• Shows you how to tie into the grid and sell energy back to the power company
• Offers advice on evaluating all of the costs of and financing for your project
• Provides tips on working with contractors and complying with local zoning laws

Yes, you can do it, with a little help from Wind Power For Dummies.

Wind Power For Dummies 1st Table of contents:

Part I: A Wind Primer: Stuff You Need to Know
Chapter 1: Introducing the World of Home Wind Electricity
Chapter 2: Is Wind Energy for You?
Chapter 3: Deconstructing Wind-Energy Systems
Chapter 4: Electricity Basics — a Shocking Amount of Info
Chapter 5: Blowing through Vital Wind-Energy Principles

Part II: Assessing Your Situation
Chapter 6: The Home Energy Assessment: Gauging Your Energy Appetite
Chapter 7: Increasing Your Home’s Energy Efficiency
Chapter 8: Determining Your Site’s Wind-Energy Potential
Chapter 9: Defining Your Relationship to the Grid
Chapter 10: Calculating the Value of Your Investment
Chapter 11: If Not Wind, Then What? Other Options for Green Energy

Part III: Assembling Your System
Chapter 12: Gathering a Team of Experts — or Going It Alone
Chapter 13: Weighing Wind Generator Options
Chapter 14: Talking about Towers
Chapter 15: Checking Out the Rest of the System Components
Chapter 16: Tying Everything Together: System Sizing and Design

Part IV: Installing and Operating Your System
Chapter 17: Safety First!
Chapter 18: Installation Time
Chapter 19: Living with Wind Energy

Part V: The Part of Tens
Chapter 20: Ten Essential Steps toward a Successful Wind-Electric System
Chapter 21: Ten Wind-Energy Mistakes
Chapter 22: Ten Tales of Wind-Energy Users and “Abusers”

Part VI: Appendixes
Appendix A: Glossary
Appendix B: Conversions, Abbreviations, and Acronyms

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