SOLAR ENERGY BOOKS

This page features all the best solar energy books as well as books about how to use solar energy in your home. Topics include passive solar energy, energy from solar panels (photovoltaics), and more.

Solar Living Sourcebook--30th Anniversary Edition

Complete Guide to Renewable Energy Technologies and Sustainable Living

Do you want to harvest sunlight, wind, or falling water to power your home? Or sell that renewable energy back to your utility company? Are you looking to build your dream eco-home? Or to convert to biodiesel and minimize your fossil fuel use? This fully updated classic of sustainable living technology tells how and gives you access to the world's most extensive selection of hardware to make it all happen. (John Schaeffer)

The Passive Solar House   (by James Kachadorian)

The Complete Guide to Heating and Cooling Your Home

The Passive Solar House offers proven techniques for building and retrofitting homes that heat and cool themselves, using readily available materials and methods familiar to all building contractors and many do-it-yourself homeowners. It's applicable to diverse regions, climates, budgets, and styles of architecture. The book includes passive solar design software.

Solar Water Heating   (by Bob Ramlow)

A Comprehensive Guide to Solar Water And Space Heating Systems

Solar Water Heating reviews the history of solar water and space heating systems from prehistory to the present, then presents the basics of modern solar water heating, including an introduction to systems and solar-energy economics. The book covers types of solar collectors, system components, system sizing and siting, cost, installation, operation, and maintenance.

Easy Guide To Solar Electric (Part I)   (by Adi Pieper)

This book is a simple and entertaining introduction to solar electric and a statement for clean energy and an environmentally healthy lifestyle. The reader will be introduced to the basic electrical terms, the components of a solar-electric system, tying into the grid, as well as tips on living in a solar energy home. (Related book: Part II - Solar Electric Installation Manual)

Build Your Own Solar Heating System   (by Kenneth Clive)

This book provides step-by-step instructions for the average do-it-yourself home owner or hobbyist for building a fully functional solar heating system capable of pre-heating water for a water heater and heating a house in winter. The project described in the book was built with easily available tools and resources so that it can be duplicated by anyone who is handy with basic tools and construction techniques.

Solar Revolution   (by Travis Bradford)

The Economic Transformation of the Global Energy Industry

In Solar Revolution, fund manager and former corporate buyout specialist Travis Bradford argues—on the basis of standard business and economic forecasting models—that over the next two decades solar energy will increasingly become the best and cheapest choice for most electricity and energy applications. Solar Revolution outlines the path by which the transition to solar technology and sustainable energy practices will occur.

The Solar Food Dryer   How to Make and Use Your Own High-Performance, Sun-Powered Food Dehydrator   (by Eben Fodor)

The Solar Food Dryer describes how to dry your food using solar energy instead of costly electricity. With your own solar-powered food dryer, you can quickly and efficiently dry all your extra garden veggies, fruits, and herbs to preserve their goodness all year long. Includes basic concepts of solar energy design; complete step-by step plans for building a high-performance, low-cost solar food dryer from readily-available materials; food drying tips and recipes; resources, references, solar charts, and more.

Solar Energy   (by Kris Hirschmann)

Humankind's dependence on fossil fuels is depleting the Earth's resources. Solar energy is one possible solution to this problem. This book examines all aspects of the solar energy question—how solar energy works, its problems and potential, where it is being used today, and more.

The Solar House: Passive Heating and Cooling

Passive solar heating and passive cooling can provide comfort throughout and reduce or eliminate the need for fossil fuel. Readers will learn the principles of passive solar design and how to implement them; how to select a cost-effective, energy-efficient, and environmentally friendly backup heating system; how to preserve indoor air quality in an airtight, energy-efficient home; and how to employ green building materials in a naturally conditioned home. (by Daniel D. Chiras, Ph.D)

Children of the Sun   (by Alfred W. Crosby)

A History of Humanity's Unappeasable Appetite for Energy

Alfred W. Crosby explores how humanity's successes have hinged on effective uses of solar energy—from cooking to exploitation of fossil fuels. But dwindling natural resources, global warming, and environmental pollution all testify to the limits of our fossil-fuel civilization. Although we haven't yet adopted a feasible alternative—just look at the embarrassment of "cold fusion" or the 2003 blackout that humbled North America—our ingenuity and adaptability as a species give us hope.

Power With Nature: Solar and Wind Energy Demystified

At some point this century, nearly ALL energy will be coming from renewable sources. Solar and wind energy are likely to be the leaders among the various flavors of ala little something about ternative energy. The author serves up a primer on wind and solar so we'll know how the lights will be kept on a few decades or so from now. (by Rex A. Ewing)

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