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This 126-page textbook includes the following chapters: CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION CHAPTER 2: IN CASE OF EMERGENCY CHAPTER 3: ENERGY EFFICIENCY CHAPTER 4: GENERATOR PARTS CHAPTER 5: SELECTING THE INVERTER CHAPTER 6: THE BATTERY BANK CHAPTER 7: THE SOLAR PANELS CHAPTER 8: THE CHARGE CONTROLLER CHAPTER 9: WIRING THE GENERATOR CHAPTER 10: SAFETY CHAPTER 11: ASSEMBLING A SOLAR GENERATOR CHAPTER 12: A PICTURE IS WORTH 1,000 WORDS CHAPTER 13: MAINTENANCE CHAPTER 14: TROUBLESHOOTING FIGURES & TABLES INDEXYou will learn how to pick the right charge controller. How and why you would select a certain size inverter (and what the heck is it), getting the right solar panel, sizing your battery. We also walk you through the wiring system, letting you know how to safely select the proper type and size of wire and fuses, and how to connect everything together.And if that's not enough, we even take a pictorial walk through a "real world" example. Listing all the parts, giving you prices and where to buy them (this 400-watt generator can be built for less than $300), then showing each step in its construction.The narrative is personal, simple, non-technical and easy to follow. A perfect project for a DIY enthusiast, a science classroom, or anyone who just wants to watch a movie while everyone else sits in the dark.We also give guidelines on how to design and build a larger system capable of: running your furnace for several days when the power goes out in the winter running a sump pump to keep your basement from flooding keeping your food cold and/or frozen during a prolonged summer power outage or powering a complete room in your houseSolar generators make little or no noise when running, give off no fumes (so you can use them indoors), and are simple to build and maintain.

The business of raising dairy livestock requires that the farmer be head of the herd. The herder must provide the animal with the tools they need to support their natural systems, making sure they receive the right kind and amount of food, vitamins, minerals - clean water - and a healthy environment.Raising goats is not easy. They are intelligent, fussy, fragile, robust, and exasperating. They are fun, kind, gentle, abusive, loving and inquisitive. In short - goats are amazing creatures and the most widely kept domestic livestock animal in the world!Despite this, traditional vets seem to know almost nothing about goats. Our farm service system in this country all but ignores their existence. So how can you get started in this growing and profitable business?This 134-page book includes the following: Stories from women who have made of business of raising goats. Sharing their experiences. How to get started: Setting your course. The basics of animal welfare, humane care. What is normal in the goat world? How to recognize a healthy goat. Herd psychology. The basics of housing and fencing. Planning for animal death. Available standards and certifications. Understanding community supported agriculture (CSA) programs. Selling raw milk. Specialty dairy products. Cheese making the old fashioned way. Preparing hides for tanning. Pricing strategies. The art of branding and marketing. Using crowdfunding and social media marketing. Maintaining a healthy goat. Goat first aid. Herbal remedies. Mineral and vitamin requirements. Natural dewormer issues and recipes. Pasture management.This book is also filled with scores of goat resource links, photos, charts and diagrams.

Ask yourself:Do you feel that this generation, and the generations to come face a future of only limited resources - and even less hope?Is this the last generation that will have access to millions of years of stored energy in the form of fossil fuels?Do you feel like the corporations and politicians are lying about how much fossil fuels remain unused - and how much they will cost?Do you feel like the system is about to implode?Well, it's sooo much worse than that!And sooo much better…This book traces the history of energy, from 1491 through today. It is a remarkable story. A story filled with one-armed bigamists, Texas Rangers named Lone Wolf hired by the governor to arrest anyone producing oil cheaper than big oil would like. Clandestine meetings in Scottish castles. Footraces to patent offices to steal inventions allowed to lapse by illiterate Italian immigrants (and as a result, Bell is remembered as the inventor of the telephone).Nearly everything you ever learned about the history of energy is wrong. For example - Thomas Edison did not invent the light bulb. The Wright Brothers were not the first to fly. Henry Ford did not invent the automobile, or the assembly line… in fact he arrived fairly late to the entire party.And then there are the formal conspiracy theories - Was Prohibition an attempt by Standard Oil to eliminate competition from ethanol? Did GM conspire to dismantle the light rail system across the U.S (the U.S. Supreme Court thought so).Our energy history leads to our energy present. A world that experienced peak coal (1998), peak natural gas (2003), and peak oil (2007). Will we repeat the same mistakes we have repeated many times before?Now that we know where we have been, and where we are - where are we going?Ten predictions for the coming two decades, as the BioMass Hits the Wind Turbine. For example: Why the electric car will come to dominate transportation within 15 years. Why all the media hype regarding the "recent natural gas boom" is just that - hype. We may soon be seeing a 3-5 fold increase in prices, and shortages resulting in massive imports of natural gas. Some boom, eh? How the line between consumer and supplier of power will disappear - and the utility of the future may look very much like FaceBook. And ultimately, why energy will be free in the not too distant future.Yes, everything is about to change. But rather than a future without hope - it will be a future without limits.Easy to read. Entertaining. And packed with more facts than you will find pretty much anywhere (certainly more facts than you will find in Exxon's annual report).