Projects to Get You Off the Grid: Rain Barrels, Chicken Coops, and Solar Panels

by Instructables.com, Noah Weinstein (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781626362307
Publisher:	Skyhorse
Publication date:	11/11/2014
Sold by:	SIMON & SCHUSTER
Format:	eBook
Pages:	144
File size:	10 MB

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction vii

Editor's Note viii

Backyard Chicken Coop 1

Clipping Chicken Wings 7

Small Chicken Tractor for the City Dweller 11

Chicken Barrow 23

Collect Rain Water with a Wine Barrel 29

Roughneck Rain Barrel 31

Green Solar-Powered Water Barrel 36

Rainwater Collection and Distribution System 40

DIY 1000 Watt Wind Turbine 45

How I Built an Electricity-Producing Wind Turbine 48

Chispito Wind Generator 61

How to Build a Thermoelectric Lamp 67

Build a 60 Watt Solar Panel 73

Solar Power System 82

How to Make PV Solar Panels 88

Solar Lawn Mower! 96

Solar-Powered Fountain/Herb Garden 109

Solar PV Tracker 112

Greenhouse from Old Windows 116

An Algae Bioreactor from Recycled Water Bottles 123

Conversion Tables 126