Product Review: Earth4Energy Instructional Guide

Earth4Energy's Step-by-Step Instructional Guide

What it claims to help you do:
- Make and Install a Solar Power System
- Build your Own Windmill

News flash - environmental degradation has reached alarming levels. We know this. In fact, most of us have realized the entire world needs to go green, ASAP. Trouble is: how is that ever going to happen? With the cost of alternative energy systems beyond the reach of most people, switching the whole world to green energy could be nearly impossible.

And yet, the Earth's fossil fuel reservoirs will not last forever. At the rate we're going, we'll probably burn through them in the very near future. But, the CO2 produced and released into the atmosphere by the burning will stay around for decades, worsening the climate crisis.

It's clear: a shift needs to happen--at the personal level--each individual has to make the needed changes. There are key decisions to be made.

Green energy sources include alternatives like solar, wind and hydroelectric power, all of which greatly reduce our negative impact on the environment. They are relatively clean energy sources, (although there is still room for improvement in the manufacturing phases). Most of us can now start to harness these green energy sources. For those of us who are "do-it-yourselfers"--even for those of us who aren't, especially for those who aren't, there is now a new way of setting up your green home system yourself.

Earth4Energy has published an instructional guide that walks even the most inexperienced person through the process of construction and installation of solar panels and a windmill on his own property. These are step-by-step instructions that are downloadable online. The materials used are inexpensive and readily available at a hardware store; and you can build your own system for under $200. Overall, this is an extremely useful manual that will guide you step by step through the DIY process, and includes clear diagrams and explanations.

If you're like me, you're sick of monthly electricity payments. I feel shackled to a system that's dying and wants to take me with it. It's time to eradicate your energy bill. Let's leave the earth a little better than we found it.

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