Soldering Station

Written by Mr. Lamar Alexander H.E.S, this book is a jewel in its sense. It gives you an insight, with less theory and more practical, of how to make solar projects and deploy them in your home. The best thing about this book that i saw is it provides you a detail of full budget that will be spent on any project that you will make from it. This is highly important as we amateur and beginners are highly concious about starting the Solar Projects as we donot have a proper estimate of the investment. This book will give us a better idea about it. Have a look at the title of the projects in this book:

1. a sturdy solar cabin for under $2000
2. a solar panel and generator home energy system for under $1000
3. a solar composting toilet for under $50
4. a solar batch water heater for under $50
5. a solar food dehydrator for under $50
6. a super solar oven for under $50
7. a sturdy garden cart for under $50
8. a portable chicken tractor for under $50
x. resource and vendor list for all kinds of great homesteading supplies

Solar Power is a field in which each and every Electronic Engineer should excell. It is highly important and it will be a demand of future in my eyes. The power rates are perking higher and higher in the country and there is a high need to go for alternate sources of energy and solar is one of the very best options available. It does require an initial investment typicall about 30-40 thousand $ for powering about 1000MW of a single house, but the PVs (PhotoVoltaics) have a life time of about 20 years. So this amount can be quickly recovered. We should know that not all of us have to spend this 30000 to 40000 $ in our homes, rather we can start from a smaller project, lets say a room, and then can make it for the whole house, even i must say that 1000MW is quite a large amount of power so we might not need this much power for our cases.

On the whole, this book is a Must Read for every Electronic Engineer. Comments are welcome...