Do-It-Yourself Projects to Get You Off the Grid
Rain Barrels, Chicken Coops, Solar Panels, and More
Published on 4. September 2018
144 pages
978-1-5107-3846-1 (ISBN)
Description
Instructables is back with this inspiring book focused on a series of projects designed to get you thinking creatively about going 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.
Here, you will learn to:
- Clip a chicken's wings
- Power your lawn mower with solar power
- Create a chicken tractor for the city
- Water your garden with solar power
- Build a thermoelectric lamp
- Create an algae bioreactor from water bottles
- And much more!
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Instructables.com | Noah Weinstein
Do-It-Yourself Projects to Get You Off the Grid
Rain Barrels, Chicken Coops, Solar Panels, and More
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09/2018
Skyhorse Publishing
€19.50
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Instructables.com is a bona fide Internet sensation, a web-based community of motivated do-it-yourselfers who contribute invaluable how-to guides to the site on a wide range of topics, from gardening and home repair to recipes to gadgets that defy categorization. The site hosts more than 100,000 projects. More than 15 million people visit the site each month, leaving comments and suggestions on the ever-growing list of do-it-yourself projects.
Content
- Front Cover
- Half-Title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- 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
