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Power from the Sun: A Practical Guide to Solar Electricity

By Dan Chiras

Fully revised coverage of solar electricity. This book is practical and accessible guide to homeowners, students, builders, installers, and many others. It provides a basic understanding of electricity, wiring, and solar energy. It discusses the types of solar electric systems, types of modules, solar site assessment, system components, batteries, ways to mount a PV array for maximum output, net metering, connecting to the grid, and many other topics.

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Power From The Wind: A Practical Guide to Small Scale Energy

By Dan Chiras

Fully revised coverage of small wind energy. This book is practical and accessible guide to homeowners, students, builders, installers, and many others. It provides a basic understanding of electricity, wiring, and wind energy. It discusses the types of wind systems, types of towers, types of turbines, wind site assessment, system components, batteries, ways to install a wind turbine for maximum output, net metering, connecting to the grid, and many other topics.

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The Scoop on Poop: Safely Capturing and Recycling the Nutrients in Graywater, Humanure, and Urine

By Dan Chiras

This book is a must for anyone wishing to build or install a composting toilet or a gray water system. It covers commercial composting toilet options, ways to build your own composting toilet, how to compost human manure safely, and ways to capture and use graywater including residential scale and gray water planters. Contains many excellent photographs and drawings.

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Living Comfortably Off-Grid: Achieving Total Self-Sufficiency in Energy, Food, Water, Waste, Transportation, Health, and Economics

By Dan Chiras

If you are interested in living more self-sufficiently or completely self-sufficient lady, this book is for you. Based on my more than 40 years of experience, it will show you how to achieve greater or complete energy self-sufficiency, self-sufficiency in food and water production, Health self-sufficiency and also economic and transportation self-sufficiency. This book contains many practical ideas that work! It contains numerous color photographs and drawings that will help you achieve greater or even complete self-sufficiency.

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The Chinese Greenhouse: Grow Warm-Weather Vegetables Year Round with Solar Energy (Third edition)

By Dan Chiras

This self-published book what was written for individuals who like to grow year round in greenhouses, even in cold climates, I don’t want to pay a fortune for heating and cooling. It features one highly successful design, the Chinese greenhouse. It is designed to grow warm weather vegetables year-round without supplemental heat. This book explains what’s wrong with conventional greenhouses, ways to design and build an earth-sheltered Chinese greenhouse and many other important topics like short-term and long-term heat banking. It also discusses ways to keep a greenhouse cooler in the summer. This book is chock full of photos and helpful illustrations.

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Survive in Style: The Prepper’s Guide to Living Comfortably through Disasters

By Dan Chiras

This book was written for the prepper community. It’s also appealing to many others as it contains a wealth of useful information for individuals concerned about the surviving natural disasters like floods, hurricanes, and earthquakes. Each chapter explains immediate things you need to do today to prepare for such disasters, for example, putting up enough food and water to get by or setting up temporary toilets. Each chapter also contains a wealth of information about ways that you can become more self-sufficient in the long run, generating your own energy, producing your own food, supplying yourself with water, and so on. Each chapter ends with the checklist the things you can do just in case disaster strikes or the end of the world as we know it truly arrives.

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Things I Learned Too Late In Life

By Dan Chiras

Want to reboot your life? It’s never too late to be who you have always wanted to be. This book will help you put life in perspective, learn to appreciate what you have, understand how important a loving heart is in all human affairs, and so much more. It’s written for young adults in their 20s and 30s who want to live a more enjoyable, fun-filled, satisfying, loving, caring and productive life.

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