The Citizen-Powered Energy Handbook: Community Solutions to a Global Crisis

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Chelsea Green Publishing, 7 ÁÕ.¤. 2007 - 336 ˹éÒ

In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, Al Gore's summer blockbuster An Inconvenient Truth, and crude oil prices soaring to all-time highs, more people than ever know the truth about our oil addiction. Global warming is here. M. King Hubbert's oil peak is fast approaching (or may already have arrived). The secret's out: fossil fuel reserves are dwindling and popular interest has created the need for accessible, realistic solutions.

The Citizen-Powered Energy Handbook, a clear-eyed view of the critical situation we face, offers ways out. Greg Pahl examines energy technologies currently available and homes in on renewable energy strategies that can be adopted by individuals and communities. Such cooperative initiatives have been common in Europe for years and are beginning to gain a foothold in the US. Each chapter focuses on a different renewable energy category--solar, wind, water, biomass, liquid biofuels, and geothermal--then reviews their advantages and disadvantages and desccribes numerous examples of successful, proven local initiatives.

The Citizen-Powered Energy Handbook is an eloquent appeal for community and regional action to initiate an array of solutions to energy needs until now controlled by large, distant utilities and consortiums. It is time to take back control of the energy and environmental challenges ahead; this book will help people do just that. It is a handbook for anyone ready to take the first steps towards a more sustainable future.

 

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OUR ENERGY CHOICES
1
Our Energy Options 9 Renewables 18 Other Strategies
27
SOLAR ENERGY
33
Solar Energy Strategies 34 Cooperative or Community Systems
48
WIND POWER
63
The Winds of Change 64 A Long Way 65 Location Location
71
Germany 77 Sweden 79 United Kingdom 82 United States
84
Canada
99
Combined Heat and Power 179 A BiogasPowered Train
182
Biofuels History 185 Biofuels 101 188 Ethanol 189 Biodiesel
200
Straight Veg
218
GEOTHERMAL
225
HighTemperature Geothermal 225 LowTemperature Geothermal
242
Final Thoughts
258
The Big Picture 262 CommunitySupported Energy 267 Groups
294
Endnotes
309

WATER POWER
105
Winooski One 107 Hydropower 101 108 Recent Hydro
118
Biomass 101 143 Biomass Heat 148 Biopower
160
Glossary
327
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Greg Pahl is the author of numerous books on energy and also writes for Mother Earth News and various other publications on biodiesel, wind power, wood heat, solar energy, heat pumps, electric cars, and a wide range of other topics related to living in a post-carbon world. His books include Power from the People: How to Organize, Finance, and Launch Local Energy Projects (2012, Chelsea Green), Biodiesel: Growing a New Energy Economy (2005, Chelsea Green), Natural Home Heating: The Complete Guide to Renewable Energy Options (2003, Chelsea Green), The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Saving the Environment (2001, Macmillan/Alpha Books), and The Unofficial Guide to Beating Debt (2000, IDG Books). Pahl has been involved in environmental issues for more than twenty-five years. In the 1970s he lived off the grid in a home in Vermont with a wind turbine atop an 80-foot tower that provided for his electrical needs. He is a founding member of the Vermont Biofuels Association as well as the Acorn Renewable Energy Co-op. Pahl attended the University of Vermont and was a military intelligence officer in the US Army during the Vietnam War.

Richard Heinberg is Senior Fellow at the Post Carbon Institute. He is the author of several influential books on resource depletion including Peak Everything: Waking Up to the Century Of Declines.

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