Your Solar Home Guidebook

An incredible amount of energy comes to earth in the form of sunlight. Every house is a potential solar collector, ready to harness this endless supply of energy and put it to work for us. Your Solar Home Guidebook is a companion to the Your Solar Home DVD and helps to demystify the concept of a solar home, providing the scientific basis for understanding the many ways you can capture this energy to heat, cool, and power your home. Published by the Rahus Institute, the Your Solar Home Guidebook is used extensively as the key curriculum piece for the Solar Schoolhouse (A Rahus Program) Topics covered include: Solar orientation through the seasons Principles of energy and heat transfer Passive solar heating and cooling Heating water with the sun Cooking with sunlight Solar electricity Historical references and interesting solar energy facts 15 Projects are included. Cereal Box Sundial, Sun Angle Tool, Ice Cube Meltdown, Save That Ice Cube, Solar Pizza Box Cooker, Shoebox Cooker, Shoebox Solar Water Heater, Shoebox Solar Home, Custom Solar Home Model, Read Your Electric Meter, Light Bulb Savings, Series and Parallel Circuits, Turn on the Radio, Solar Race Car Model, Solar Power Monitor.