Publisher's Synopsis
Learn to embrace a more energy efficient lifestyle, achieve energy reduction in your home from anywhere between 20% - 65% and create more discretionary income.
Outsmarting your Energy Bill is a full-color and well-illustrated book that takes you on an interactive energy efficiency journey through your home. It helps you redefine your energy consumption and the way you see your home, equipment, and appliances from an energy efficiency perspective.
The author, Erney Errol Pinas, is a holistic engineer, renewable energy and indoor climate specialist, inventor, and entrepreneur. He wrote the book from a very personal perspective, and it is clearly a work of passion and intense sharing from the heart. He introduces the fun-filled character Erney-G, which is a playful reshuffling of the word ENERGY. Together, they bring the new knowledge and skill set in relation to energy efficiency in a fun and inspiring way.
Although the design of this book is unique, playful and joyful, it covers the functionality of the building envelope, installations and appliances in detail as stations in an interactive journey to acquire knowledge and skills, while reducing your energy costs. Stations include, for example, the building envelope & components, Heating, Ventilation & Air-Conditioning (HVAC), the washer, dryer, the refrigerator, and the electric cooktop. The book addresses daily problems with your building envelope, technical installations and appliances and presents potential practical solutions. It also offers background information, DIY guides and tools that can be downloaded for free from the engineering webpage of the author.
The author suggests that readers start within their own circle of influence, namely, their home, to make significant changes that not only help serve themselves but also their communities and the world at large. Throughout the book, the author helps us see that when we act locally, there is an impact globally. He helps us understand that by doing our part; we become active contributors in helping transform the world in bold ways toward a more sustainable humanity and planet earth as set forth by the 17 United Nations Sustainable Goals to create a more sustainable and inclusive world. Imagine the impact on a world scale and on global warming if every household would cut their energy consumption by only 20%-30% with the easy to take measures presented in this book.
As an added-value you will learn practical ways to re-invest your newly achieved savings into starting new and sustainable (small) businesses based on the proven, custom-developed Low Investment-High Yield(TM) sustainable growth & development model.
Finally, this book is also very applicable as a learning strategy in schooling systems. Complicated issues are presented in easy to understand and apply routines and solutions that are at the fingertips of the reader accompanied by several how-to guides. The use of note making throughout the text enables readers of all ages to be action-oriented, which is critical to move to energy consciousness.
