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How to heat my house after Peak Oil? [closed]
Peak Oil is very near or has even already started. How can one heat one's house without using oil or one of its derivatives?
All the boilers I know depend on derivatives of oil. And the alternatives ...
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What Good and Affordable Alternative Power Source Would You Recommend?
I am woking on a startup (read: using my computer always). 80% of the time, I generate my own electricity with a petrol/gas generator.
On new years day, the Nigerian government increased the price of ...
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Can I power my air conditioning with solar energy?
In my house I have 3 small air conditioning systems running at 8.000 BTU/hour each. I would like to power them with solar energy. I found that I would have to generate:
3.41 BTU = 1 Watts/h
8.000 ...
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Can I retrofit a wind-power system for my home?
I live in a VERY windy place. My neighborhood is a new development of your typical suburban single family homes. There isn't really room for a full windmill, nor would it look very well. But there has ...
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Should I pursue building my own wind turbine?
The area where I live suffers heavy power outages (in fact the whole country does!!) so I am considering building one of those wind turbines (with PVC pipes) but am not sure whether it's windy enough ...
