Projects to Get You Off the Grid
Rain Barrels, Chicken Coops, and Solar Panels
1st Edition
Published on 11. November 2014
144 pages
978-1-62636-230-7 (ISBN)
Description
Instructables is back with this compact book focused on a series of projects designed to get you thinking creatively about thinking green. Twenty Instructables illustrate just how simple it can be to make your own backyard chicken coop, or turn a wine barrel into a rainwater collector.
Illustrated with dozens of full-color photographs per project accompanying easy-to-follow instructions, this Instructables collection utilizes the best that the online community has to offer, turning a far-reaching group of people into a mammoth database churning out ideas to make life better, easier, and in this case, greener, as this volume exemplifies.
Illustrated with dozens of full-color photographs per project accompanying easy-to-follow instructions, this Instructables collection utilizes the best that the online community has to offer, turning a far-reaching group of people into a mammoth database churning out ideas to make life better, easier, and in this case, greener, as this volume exemplifies.
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Projects to Get You Off the Grid
Rain Barrels, Chicken Coops, and Solar Panels
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03/2013
Skyhorse Publishing
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Noah Weinstein is an editor at Instructables.com, co-founder of SF Media Labs and spends time making things both big and small at his shop in Oakland, CA. He has worked as a white water rafting guide, custom speaker builder, sheep shepherd, and tractor driver. He earned a BA from Brown University where he concentrated in environmental studies and visual art.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Editor's Note
- Backyard Chicken Coop
- Clipping Chicken Wings
- Small Chicken Tractor for the City Dweller
- Chicken Barrow
- Collect Rain Water with a Wine Barrel
- Roughneck Rain Barrel
- Green Solar-Powered Water Barrel
- Rainwater Collection and Distribution System
- DIY 1000 Watt Wind Turbine
- How I Built an Electricity-Producing Wind Turbine
- Chispito Wind Generator
- How to Build a Thermoelectric Lamp
- Build a 60 Watt Solar Panel
- Solar Power System
- How to Make PV Solar Panels
- Solar Lawn Mower!
- Solar-Powered Fountain/Herb Garden
- Solar PV Tracker
- Greenhouse from Old Windows
- An Algae Bioreactor from Recycled Water Bottles
- Conversion Tables
- Backmatter
