How To Build A Simple Solar Panel by Media 1 Incorporated $5.99
Simple Solar Panels is a step-by-step guide to building your very own DIY solar panel. There will be no guesswork involved as the book includes everything from a shopping list to detailed measurements and diagrams. Dozens of detailed photos illustrate every step from the soldering of the solar cells to the glass installation and functionality tests. Also included is member access to the Solar DIY...
The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World by Penguin Press HC, The $37.95
This long-awaited successor to Daniel Yergin’s Pulitzer Prize-winning The Prize provides an essential, overarching narrative of global energy, the principal engine of geopolitical and economic change Renowned energy authority Daniel Yergin continues the riveting story begun in his Pulitzer Prize winning book, The Prize, in this gripping account of the quest for the energy the world needs --...
Experiments With Alternate Currents of High Potential and High Frequency by Angriff Pr $20.00
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The Third Industrial Revolution: How Lateral Power Is Transforming Energy, the Economy, and the World by Palgrave Macmillan $27.00
The Industrial Revolution, powered by oil and other fossil fuels, is spiraling into a dangerous endgame. The price of gas and food are climbing, unemployment remains high, the housing market has tanked, consumer and government debt is soaring, and the recovery is slowing. Facing the prospect of a second collapse of the global economy, humanity is desperate for a sustainable economic game plan to...
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope (P.S.) by William Morrow Paperbacks $14.99
William Kamkwamba was born in Malawi, a country where magic ruled and modern science was mystery. It was also a land withered by drought and hunger. But William had read about windmills, and he dreamed of building one that would bring to his small village a set of luxuries that only 2 percent of Malawians could enjoy: electricity and running water. His neighbors called him misala—crazy—but...
Solar Electricity Handbook - 2011 Edition: A Simple Practical Guide to Solar Energy - Designing and Installing Photovoltaic Solar Electric Systems by Greenstream Publishing $17.99
The Solar Electricity Handbook is a simple, practical guide to using electric solar panels and designing and installing photovoltaic PV systems. Significantly updated for 2011, the latest edition assumes no previous knowledge of solar electric systems. The book explains how solar panels work and how they can be used. It explains the advantages of solar energy and the drawbacks that you...
Reinventing Fire: Bold Business Solutions for the New Energy Era by Marvin Odum $34.95
Imagine fuel without fear. No climate change. No oil spills, no dead coalminers, no dirty air, no devastated lands, no lost wildlife. No energy poverty. No oil-fed wars, tyrannies, or terrorists. No leaking nuclear wastes or spreading nuclear weapons. Nothing to run out. Nothing to cut off. Nothing to worry about. Just energy abundance, benign and affordable, for all, forever.That richer, fairer,...
Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution - and How It Can Renew America, Release 2.0 by Picador $16.00
A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year A Washington Post Best Book of the Year A Businessweek Best Business Book of the Year A Chicago Tribune Best Book of the Year In this brilliant, essential book, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Thomas L. Friedman speaks to America's urgent need for national renewal and explains how a green revolution can bring about both a sustainable...
Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution--and How It Can Renew America by Farrar, Straus and Giroux $27.95
Thomas L. Friedman’s no. 1 bestseller The World Is Flat has helped millions of readers to see globalization in a new way. Now Friedman brings a fresh outlook to the crises of destabilizing climate change and rising competition for energy—both of which could poison our world if we do not act quickly and collectively. His argument speaks to all of us who are concerned about the state of America...
Fundamentals of Heat and Mass Transfer, 5th Edition by Wiley $98.95
Systematic problem-solving methodology.* Extensive use of first law thermodynamics.* Finite Element Heat Transfer (FEHT) program w/ printed user's guide--A new software program (from the makers of EES) that solves 2D and transient conduction problems.