Earth4Energy  Review  Rated 9.7 /10  

Earth4Energy Is Now Our Highest Rated Wind And Solar Electricity Generator Manual

Can The Earth4Energy Homebuilt Solar And Wind Power Plans Truly Put An End To Your Electric Bills?

 Earth4Energy is the name of an eBook that deals with the timely and important topic of how to reduce the escalating costs of electricity in an environmentally friendly way. This instruction manual attempts to teach the reader how to build low-cost solar and wind powered electricity generators in order to reduce or even completely eliminate the amount of power purchased from the utility companies.

One of the major problems of home generated electricity has been the enormous up-front cost of purchasing and having a commercial system installed. At $6,000 to well over $20,000 the beak even point can in some cases be 8 to 15 years. Building your own can be as low as $200 each for either a solar panel or a single wind turbine. The pay back on building it yourself can be just a few weeks.

What you get:

Earth4Energy is an instant download, 73 page eBook that you can read directly from a computer monitor or print out for more traditional reading. (Note: see update below about new videos).

What Building Skills Are Required?:

Just the basic tools skills that most homeowners acquire over time. Using a jigsaw, electric drill, soldering, hammering, sawing, screw driving, painting etc.

However, if you choose to integrate your solar or wind generators into your home wiring to run your appliances or even to sell your excess electricity back to the power company, you will need to hire a licensed electrician.

What Tools are Needed?:

Jigsaw, hand or circular saw, soldering iron, electric drill, socket set, file, hand sander, screw drivers, paint brush, hammer, etc…. well you get the idea. All you will need are common everyday tools most of which you may already own.

How Much Time Does It Take To Build?:

Once the parts and raw materials have been acquired it will take about a weekend for an organized and experienced handy-man (or handy-woman sorry). It might take at least a week per solar panel or windmill for those of us with more average skills.

The Negatives:

The book is not a perfect step by step example of exactly how to build the same solar panels and wind generators that the author built.

I must say though, in defense of Earth4Energy, it does acknowledge that you may not find exactly the same parts for your generator projects anyway. So, the instructions are geared toward helping you to understand the concepts behind the construction for maximum adaptability when building your own version.

Some details are missing that I found annoying. Almost nothing is said about how to mount the solar panels to the roof of your house. It also was not completely clear how to mount the windmill motor/generator and blade assembly on the vertical support pole so that it will spin freely without wobbling. I suspect this is more obvious once the hands-on part of building begins.

I also wish that the book came with a companion video. (NOTE: see the new update below). I find that so much more of the critical construction details can be communicated through a video as compared to the written word.

The 73 pages of Earth4Energy do contain a few chapters of fluff like: Ethanol As A Viable Energy Source, Hydro-Electricity and Reducing Your Oil Independence. While somewhat interesting they add little.

The Positives:

The writing is mostly clear, simple and understandable.

You can tell that the author of this book has actually built the solar and wind generators that he writes about.

The manual includes lots of diagrams, illustrations and photos that, most of the time, do an adequate job of clarifying the written instructions.

The book is available in an instant download format. This means that about 5 minutes after ordering over the internet its on your computer and ready to read directly or print out for a more traditional reading.

I purchased my copy at a sale price of $49.95 which is reasonable for this specialized information, especially if you consider that the project should pay back your entire investment in just a few weeks. Of course you have to actually build something and not just read it to make this happen.

Support:

An email address is available for technical support questions. Also, free updates are posted to the Earth4Energy members section of their website. 6 Updates were posted in July of 2008 alone.

Guarantee:  Earth4Energy offers a 60 day money back guarantee.

Price: I purchased my copy on sale for $49.97 USD

Bottom Line:

The earth4energy manual is a competent, if not perfect, guide for making these energy saving devices. It is complete enough to have sold more that any of its competitors products as of the time of this writing. In other words it gets the job done at a reasonable price. It is for these reasons that I am comfortable recommending earth4energy.

UPDATE: The Earth4Energy Company has begun to produce a whole series of short and focussed videos that show critical details for building windmills and solar panels. At the time of this update they are the only publisher to do so.

Some of the initial videos show essential methods and tricks for easily soldering electrical leads to the individual solar cells as well as exactly how to interconnect all the cells in an entire panel.

These and future videos on windmill construction are available on a special "members only" webpage that is available at no extra charge to anyone that buys the main eBook.

Because of the addition of these new instructional videos, I have increased this program's rating from 9.0 to 9.7. Earth4Energy  is now our highest rated program.

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