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HOME ENERGY TIPS, Low- and No-cost Solutions To Home Energy Problems In A Power Hungry Culture,
By Ralph W. Ritchie and Fern J. Ritchie

We are in a power crunch and you need help. It is not going to go away. Either fuel costs, population increases, or the need to reduce air pollution will all keep us in a power hungry situation.
Either we cannot afford it, or there will not be enough.

The purpose of this book is to ease the problem mostly with minimal or no-cost solutions.

Better start learning now.

Experience

Experience is the best teacher, but you need help before you can acquire experience on your own.
Next best is to benefit from another’s experience. This book collects the relevant material from most of the authors’ over 30 books. They were written for people who want to help themselves. Does that include you?
In effect, this book contains over 50 years of ways we have used to conserve energy. We started early: The message of energy shortages to come wasn’t widely publicized, although it’s coming was announced and published. The idea that we would eventually run out of fossil fuels was almost totally rejected.

What will this book do for me?

There is nothing in this book that you cannot discover for yourself- given enough time. Why not get a fifty year head start from our experiences and begin applying these tips now?
At the very least, you will know how to carry on with undependable power from the Grid. Do you doubt that? If increased population doesn't do it, then Peak Oil will.
Our book, Emergency Power With Solar Electricity, makes the task even easier.
We are all feeling the result of energy problems, either in acquiring energy as fuels or using it to best advantage. Inefficient use of fuel means releasing the unburn portion into the atmosphere. In the end, we alleat, drink, or breathe that pollution. Make an effort to save your family and its future generations by making the most efficient use of any energy source.

A Family Matter

Every one in a household needs to participate in the process of conserving energy. Some of the measures are one time fixes, but many are day by day practices. Most of these practices cost nothing.

Restoring Power

We hope that rolling blackouts are the most with which we will have to cope. In today’s culture, even that is a minor disaster. Electricity is the hinge upon which our lives swing. Most of us can’t even tell time without electricity, or when it comes back on, how do we reset the clocks? In fact, every floating automatic device in the house will need resetting. To really save energy, you should turn them off completely
You’ll know whether you did it right if the furnace comes on at 2 AM, instead of 7 AM, or the coffee maker tries to serve you a cup at 3 AM.

Electrical Dependence

We depend upon electricity for all the niceties of living. What about the necessities?
Food Preservation and Spoilage
Heat Regardless of the energy type, electricity usually controls and distributes the heat.
Light- Try wondering around at night without using a light switch.
Water- is supplied mainly by electrical pumps.
Sewers- usually have electrical pumps in their system.

Enjoy air conditioning? A hot tub, Hot water? These are things we can live without if we must, although there are energy efficient ways to have these things. Otherwise, either the cost of having them or the need to use a minimum of electricity may make them unavailable. Solar Energy will heat your home, How To Build And Benefit From A Passive Solar Space Heater, and provide hot water. It will even heat the hot tub.

Excerpts From This Book