Eco Product Reviews

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Authors: Jane And Les Oke, WindPlans.com
Pages: 94

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With the costs that our utilities companies charge us ballooning every year and major concerns over the environmental impact of using fossil fuels it’s natural that many of us consider creating our own energy. And one of the most effective methods is by way of a win turbine.

However if you go directly to a professional wind turbine company you will likely pay $1,000+ for a piece of kit like this and so while you will be helping the planet, it will take quite some time to make back the money from your investment.

Now authors and off-grid experts Les and Jane Oke have published a guide based on their own experiences all about how to build your own wind turbine from scratch for a tenth of the cost. Indeed, in the book Les and Jane show a breakdown of the costs they came across and break down the whole project piece by piece to show just how realistic this $100 budget for a wind turbine really is.

One aspect I particularly liked myself was the section on working out how much energy you actually need to power your home in comparison to how much a wind turbine will produce in order to allow you to make an informed decision about the ideal size and/or number of turbines for your purposes.

Besides the obvious benefits of a wind turbine, one of the things that really struck me when reading through the book was just how many different options the authors had to try before they got their system working smoothly. They list all sorts of suppliers, materials and alternatives that they tested before they came up with what they believe to be the easiest and most cost effective manner to build your own turbine.

Is it easy? No, I wouldn’t go that far. Even with this guide you’re going to need to put some work in to actually build and site your turbine but your mission will be a lot easier with this guide than without it! I think the advice they offer is both realistic and detailed-enough to allow the average person to convert much of their energy requirements to renewable sources and for this I applaud them.

If you’re keen to save money while saving the planet then I think this is an excellent investment indeed and one I thoroughly enjoyed reading. It’s clear to me that the authors have a real understanding of what they are talking about.

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Pages: 94

Visit the DIY Green Energy Website

The DIY Energy Guide, a new 94 page ebook, will take you through all aspects of green energy. And when I say green energy, we’re not talking plain theory. Instead the book guides you through the various topics in a highly practical manner teaching you how to build your own wind turbine, how to reduce your household energy use, creating your own biodiesel and so on.

As a result it is one of the most complete guides available when it comes to reducing your reliance on fossil fuels and instead saving money and the planet by utilizing free and low cost methods to harness renewable energy.

There were two sections that I particularly enjoyed personally. The first of these was how to create your own solar panels. As you are no doubt aware, while solar panels are capable of producing large amounts of green energy, they suffer from typically being very expensive to install. Estimates put the time to recoup your investment at 10+ years from buying them. With many solar panels costing literally thousands of dollars this is understandable but for many people is a stumbling block.

After all, even the most environmentally aware of us might wince at paying $10,000 or more for a complete solar panel installation for our homes. So I was very pleased to see instructions in this guide that will enable you to create your own for less than $200. This of course is not only a substantial saving but should also help solar panels to become more widespread as a result.

The instructions given are clear, with advice on what materials you will need and how to source them, together with detailed diagrams on exactly how to construct your panels and utilize the energy they produce.

The second section discussed using a combination of wind turbines and solar panels to fulfill your every need at home and how all the various elements – from the turbines to the batteries and more – should all be wired together for best effectiveness. This “complete overview” is often missing from other books and makes this one even more valuable in my eyes.

In short, if you are keen to make your own solar panels then this is the best book on the topic that I have read and is a great read in itself.

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Author: Jim Rohr, Venture1Media.com
Pages: 61

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I have an admission to make. I care about the planet, but I also enjoy my home comforts and sometimes the two don’t make very good friends. I want to do my bit but without having to give up my central heating, lawn and evenings infront of the TV.

Recently I picked up a copy of Jim Rohr’s latest ebook entitled Go Green Save Green, which lists 125 ways to not only help the planet but also save you money. I was hoping that it wasn’t a “run of the mill” book on the topic which either states all the obvious things that we all know or tells us to go and live in a cave and eat nothing but grass.

Fortunately, I was pleasantly surprised by this ebook which reveals plenty of interesting ways t save the planet that I hadn’t previously thought of. For example, we all know we shouldn’t waste water, but did you know that if the average family only put the amount of water into a kettle that they needed for their coffee etc. rather than filling it to the top, they would save enough electricity to power their TV every night for a week? I certainly didn’t and have now implemented this strategy myself at home.

Another tip that got my attention was ensuring that all food is properly covered before it is placed in the refrigerator. Apparently, not doing so increases the chances of the food giving off moisture which makes the condenser work harder, and costs both your pocket and the planet more.

Even better, not only does Jim make some great points but he also backs them up wherever possible with actual statistics – which make his arguments all the more believable (and to me at least, interesting).

I like the way Jim has put the book together – neatly separating out the tips into chapters – such as ways to save around the home, in the garden or while on vacation. And I like the way that you get two benefits from following his tips – both in terms of saving the planet and saving money which of course makes each tip twice as valuable as far as I am concerned.

If you’re interested in doing your bit for the planet then I think you could do far worse than invest in Go Green Save Green. Highly recommended.

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Authors: Jane And Les Oke, Convert-2-Ev.com
Pages: 91

Visit the Build Your Own Electric Car Website

While the idea of transforming a standard car into one that is powered purely by electricity is tempting, I can’t imagine anything that sounds more complicated. Frankly, before reading this book I wouldn’t have had a clue where to start and I dread to think how much research would have been required by me – assuming I could find all the information I needed in the first place.

Even so, the idea of saving a considerable sum of money on gas plus helping the environment at the same time were very tempting.

As someone with very few technical skills, it was with interest recently that I read this manual, in all honesty expecting to be lost within a matter of pages in complicated diagrams and terms I didn’t understand.

As it turns out, I was pleasantly surprised by both how easy the book is to understand and also all the resources it includes. Almost half the book explains how to gather the equipment you will need for little to no money. For example, you will learn where to get “dead” batteries to power your car that nobody else wants and then how to recondition them so they are perfectly workable (and safe!). This means that in contrast to my initial suspicions, you can actually adapt your car for very little cost indeed.

One thing which makes perfect logical sense, but which hadn’t crossed my mind, was that if you’re looking to convert a car into an electric one, you can get away with a “non-runner”. Obviously the engine is one of the most expensive parts of a car so when a car is still in workable condition in terms of bodywork etc. but the engine is dead you can pick them up for virtually nothing. The example in the book is a perfectly serviceable car that the authors bought for just $200 and then transferred to an electric car that then cost just $1 for a full charge! Compare that with the cost of a tank of gas!

The second section of the book – the shorter part – is actually about fitting all the equipment and getting your car running. I was both surprised and impressed that this is actually made quite simple by the authors and I felt that even someone with my lack of technical abilities could achieve this with a little patience.

In short, this ebook really does cover every aspect of making an electric car from sourcing a cheap vehicle to convert if you don’t have one, down to finding cheap equipment and doing the conversion and I feel this guide could genuinely help anyone achieve the same.

Best of all, the authors, who live off-grid themselves, talk from their own experiences of doing it themselves rather than some dry theory they have picked up from a book.

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