Power With Nature * Rex A. Ewing

Solar and Wind Energy Demystified. This practical, real-world engineering text takes the confusion out of renewable technology, providing homeowners and off-grid pioneers with an uncomplicated guide to design, size, and assemble custom residential solar, wind, and micro-hydro power systems.

The Story: Written by prominent renewable energy writer, homesteader, and independent author Rex A. Ewing, this highly praised 2003 masterwork transforms dense alternative science into an exceptionally clear, highly actionable work. Ewing completely looks past the abstract corporate marketing or dense mathematical formulas typical of institutional energy textbooks. Instead, drawing directly from his own hands-on experience building a fully off-grid, log-cabin homestead in the Colorado wilderness, he establishes an honest, step-by-step strategy demonstrating that transitioning to clean energy relies simply on understanding basic electricity metrics, rather than spending a fortune on unnecessary professional contractors.

The text takes DIY enthusiasts, survivalists, and eco-conscious homeowners through a versatile learning landscape across its illustrated pages. The layout organizes alternative technology into clear technical modules meticulously detailing solar panel selection, inverter efficiencies, battery backup banks, and wind turbine placement. The text unpeels the parameters behind calculating your household’s daily energy load, tracking precise guidelines to safely wire structural components, build a clean-burning backup system, and coordinate wind and solar inputs so that your property maintains an ironclad sanctuary of reliable power through changing seasonal timelines.

Rather than treating conservation as a rigid lifestyle of deprivation, the book is an empowering guide to complete energetic independence. Ewing infuses the chapters with dry humor, blunt common sense, and transparent cost-benefit ledgers, helping readers avoid common material traps and hidden installation mistakes. Published by PixyJack Press, this classic DIY reference remains an essential showpiece for sustainability, home improvement, and technology shelves, instructing how to partner with the natural elements to forge a self-sufficient lifestyle.

Perfect For: Off-grid homesteaders, DIY builders, and homeowners looking for an uncomplicated, highly realistic reference manual to calculate and build independent power systems; readers interested in practical green technology, battery storage logistics, and wind turbines; and library collections expanding their shelves of foundational sustainable living and eco-engineering guides.

Published 2003 by PixyJack Press.

Engineering & Technology / Alternative & Sustainable Living / Renewable Energy Handbooks / Off-Grid Solar & Wind Systems / DIY Home Infrastructure