Introduction.
Part I: Playing the Energy Game.
Chapter 1: Helping the World through Solar Power.
Chapter 2: Surveying Your Household Energy Efficiency and Use.
Chapter 3: Making Your Home Energy Efficient.
Part II: Understanding Solar — Just the Facts, Ma’am.
Chapter 4: Working with Solar Basics.
Chapter 5: Evaluating Your Solar Potential.
Chapter 6: Calculating Payback on Your Solar Investment.
Chapter 7: Installing Your Solar System.
Part III: Doing It Yourself: Smalland Medium-Sized Projects.
Chapter 8: Digging In to Landscape Projects.
Chapter 9: Jumping In to Small Projects with Big Results.
Chapter 10: Heating and Purifying Water.
Chapter 11: Diving In to Swimming Pool Projects.
Chapter 12: Supplementing Your Domestic Water Heater.
Chapter 13: Breezeway: Directing Wind within Your House.
Chapter 14: Solar Pumps, Wind Power, Hydro Power, and Batteries
in Applications.
Part IV: Home Solar Projects: Getting a Little Help from Your
Friends.
Chapter 15: Deciding between Doing It Yourself and Contracting.
Chapter 16: Glass Houses (and Plastic, Too): Greenhouses and
Sunrooms.
Chapter 17: Plugging In to the Grid with a Full-Scale PV System.
Chapter 18: Divorcing the Grid: Going Solo with Solar Power
Systems.
Part V: Buying, Selling, and Building a Solar Home.
Chapter 19: Building a Solar Home from the Ground Up.
Chapter 20: Buying and Selling a Solar Home.
Part VI: Finding the Moolah to Do the Job.
Chapter 21: Subsidizing Your Solar Projects with Other People’s
Money.
Chapter 22: Financing Your Solar Investments.
Part VII: The Part of Tens.
Chapter 23: Ten Best Solar Investments.
Chapter 24: Ten or So Best Do-It-Yourself Projects.
Chapter 25: Ten Cheap Solar Projects and Devices.
Chapter 26: Ten or So Worst Solar Mistakes.
Index. Read The Index (PDF)
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