Greenstream Publishing will launch a new Kickstarter campaign to raise funds for their new project, Introducing Renewable Energy, which includes a new website, renewable energy applications and a handbook written by Paul Matthews, industry leader and expert, and edited by Michael Boxwell, renewable energy expert and internationally bestselling author of the Solar Electricity Handbook. The book is full-colour, with photographs, diagrams and clearly written text. Discussing wind turbines, solar energy, hydropower and wave and tidal technologies, it uses micro-power projects as examples of how renewable energy systems can be put together, and gives guidance on how the reader can create and install their own.
Accompanying the book is a website and mobile applications that will provide not just information on renewable energy but practical tools for those wishing to install their own system, including exclusive wind, hydro and solar energy calculators, created using climate data from NASA. Those pledging just a few dollars to the Kickstarter campaign will receive rewards including access to the beta site, an exclusive mobile application designed to calculate your electric carbon footprint, and signed, hardback copies of both Introducing Renewable Energy and the world’s bestselling book on solar electricity, the Solar Electricity Handbook.
According to Michael Boxwell, managing director of Greenstream Publishing, the aim of this project is to ‘get people excited about renewable energy, from students, designers and architects to the homeowner interested in installing their own system. Renewable energy finally has the potential to supplant oil, gas and coal power as a source of the world’s fuel’.
Royalties from Introducing Renewable Energy will be used to develop a new home solar power unit for remote third world communities. With the forthcoming UN summit on global climate change in Paris later this year, renewable energy is coming into its own not just as a force for positive change, but as a practical energy source that is accessible to all.
