Boiling Point of Water
Graph & Table showing Boiling Point of Water at Various Pressures

Specific Heat Capacities
Specific Heat Capacities of Various Fluids

Grey Water Waste Heat Recovery
DIY Waste Heat Recovery from Grey Water

Preventing Hot Water Scalding
Guidance notes on Preventing Hot Water Scalding / Legionella Safety / Thermostatic Mixer Valves / Regulations

Solarbase - Rutland Solar Installer
Affordable Solar Installer Peter Base of Solarbase in Cottesmore, Rutland. see following link for case study: http://www.peach-alternative-energy.org/5.html

Solar Standards Association
solar industry watchdog

Renewable Energy Installer Magazine
We look at the issues you face, the technologies you serve as well as bringing you the latest news and products. This is an exciting and innovative industry. Renewable Energy Installer reflects this providing informative content for professional installers, technology suppliers and service providers.

Battery Connections
More interesting than you think! Explains how to connect batteries together to form battery banks (and why)

Epogee Certification
Epogee Specializes in certification for renewable technologies, and runs the Navitron solar installation training courses, on a monthly basis. Learn to install vacuum tube solar panels, PVs, wind turbines, heatpumps, make your own biodiesel etc

Homepower Magazine
Highly recommended monthly magazine covering renewables. You can download some articles directly from the website

Golden Valley Environmental Group
Environmental Group set up to promote Energy efficiency and Renewables in 'The Marches' of Herefordshire

UK Sea Level Map after Climate Change
Find out what the UK will look like after sea level rises (suggested new names: Sheffield-by-Sea, Peterborough-under-water !)

Low-Impact Living Initiative
LILI is a non-profit organisation whose mission is to help people reduce their impact on the environment, improve their quality of life, gain new skills, live in a healthier and more satisfying way, have fun, and save money

Green Building Press
Information and publications to help you create healthy and ecological homes and buildings

Consumer Utility Services
Check out the best deal on your utility bills. Take the opportunity to switch to a 100% renewable tariff - many are available at the same or lower-than-standard prices

It's Not Easy Being Green, with Dick Strawbridge
Find out what Dick and Bridget are up to, by visiting their website

Hi-Energy (Scottish Highlands & Islands)
Find out what is available in Scotland

Carbon Footprint
Calculate your carbon footprint - find out how much CO2 you are responsible for.....then do something to reduce it

Boiler Efficiency Database
Check the efficiency of your boiler online

Turn Up the Heat
site exposing 'greenwash'

BuilditSolar
DIY plans for various renewable energy projects. Also, good source of technical and experimental information.

Odbob's Home Energy Website
Odbob's inspiring website shows how individuals can easily reduce their carbon footprint whilst maintaining a 'normal' standard of living.

How to make a DIY Hydraulic Ram Pump

Realtime National Grid Load (UK)
Realtime Figures and Historical Charts for Natioanl Grid Power Delivery in the UK. Find out the current National Grid load in GW!!

How to Build a Heliostat

Passive Refrigerator Design - uses no electricity!

Energy Self Sufficiency Newsletter Download Archive

Peach Alternative Energy
Peach Alternative Energy is a SOLAR ECOLOGY company, which is about combining energy saving measures together with solar energy from the sun and geothermal energy from below the earth surface.

Four Seasons Fuel
Sussex supplier of logs etc (and coal, tut-tut!)

Methane Digesters for Fuel Gas and Fertiliser - L. John Fry
This is THE definitive publications on Biogas. One of the earliest, and still one of the most informative. Full text available online. A MUST-READ!

DIY Sawdust Stove
How to build a smokeless stove that runs on sawdust

How to burn wood correctly
A short film demonstrating the best ways of achieving high efficiency smoke-free burns.

Stoves Online
Wood Burning stoves, multifuel stove, gas and flues online

Hugh Piggott's Wind Turbine Website
Hugh Piggott is regarded as *the* wind turbine guru. Visit his site to find extensive DIY plans for building your own wind turbine, including making your own axial flux alternator

Gotwind
Ben, from Gotwind has pioneered the 'pico' wind turbine field, making tiny low power turbines from salvaged or scrap parts.

Useful Blade Modifications
How to modify simple blades for better performance and quieter operation

'Wind-Belt'
Novel Low Cost Wind Generator Design

UK Wind Speed Map
Check out the current wind speed at your location

Andre's DIY Wind Turbine Site
Excellent DIY Wind Turbine site (in French)

Hugh Piggott's Wind Turbine Manuals

Helston College Wind Turbine
Website documenting the installation of a college wind turbine project, including realtime online data

Live wind map of the UK
Check the wind speed in your area - live data

Powercubes
Ken's excellent DIY CHP (combined heat and power) setup for producing electricity and heat for his home from waste vegetable oil

Stationary Engine Parts
Get your Lister CS spares here at low prices.

Internal Fire Museum
Stationary engine museum in Wales. Excellent website including resources including scanned manuals for most stationary engines - otherwise hard to find, and free to download

Dutch DIY Grid-tie PV system (English Language)
Very informative dutch grid-tie PV system, including PV output data

Free Online PV Performance Calculator (in German)
Predict the output of your PV array.

Solar PV Info

Cheap DIY Tracker
How to make a cheap DIY Tracker from salvages parts.

Cheap DIY Tracker
How to make a cheap DIY Tracker from salvages parts.

Tim Hunkin's Site
Tim is one of my heros. I grew up on Tim's 'Secret life of..' series, where he experiments with Junk to produce weird and wonderful mechanical objects. Tim is an engineer, cartoonist and experimenter....and has even experimented with renewable energy

Ultimate Handyman Guide

Email your MP
This site relays emails to your MP in Parliament. It's a very easy way to write to your MP to ask them to make representation on your behalf (that's their job!), and they are duty-bound to reply to your email. A very effective tool. We've used it a number of times to further the renewable cause!

Contact your MP online
It's easy to never get round to contacting your MP to make your views on renewables known. Click on this link to go to a site that automatically forwards your online message to your MP at Westminster. You are guaranteed a response from your MP.

Tax Payers Alliance
Are you fed up with the way that the government or your local authority squander and waste your hard-earned cash? This site campaigns for more efficiency in government - something that almost everyone agrees with. Free to join.

The Big Green Idea
The Big Green Idea has been set up to provide investment in community-based environmental projects

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
PETA campaigns against animal cruelty. You don't have to be vegan to appreciate that animals should not be needlessly slaughtered or subject to pain and suffering unnecessarily. PETA often uses celebrity nudity to make a memorable statement, including stars such as Pamela Anderson, Pink and Alicia Silverstone

Higher efficiency 6-stroke engine
40% higher efficiency from water injection and secondary power stroke. No cooling system required, as the water injection will cool the engine sufficiently

Steam Powered Bike

Home-made Wood Chip Gassifier for Statioary Engine
Includes info on wood chipping and drying

Convert Small 4 Stroke Engine to run on Steam or Air
Steam engines are expensive, but it is relatively easy to convert small engines to run on steam by altering the cams etc. Here is a step-by-step guide to DIY

more steam-powered engine coversions

Ultimate DIY Source
This is the ultimate DIY source for fun, pointless, innovative projects, as well as mods and hacks to do weird and wacky things. A real must for anyone that enjoys DIY with a difference!

How to Deal with Cold Calling
How to hit back at cold callers.

Solar Soap Company

Pipeline Pressure Drop Calculator