Resources

Barnyards and Backyards Articles

• Extension Educators Build Cost-Friendly DIY Solar Thermal Stock Tank Prototype
• Keep on the Sunny Side: Lower Your Utility Bills with Passive Solar Techniques
• A Simply Guide to Energy Efficiency: Put Your Home's Energy Gluttons on a Permanent Diet
• Cutting Home Energy Costs
• Want to Spend Less on Utilities? Look to Utility Companies for Ideas to Avoid Billing Shock
• A Few Tips for Boosting the Energy Efficieny of Your Greenhouse
• Conduct a Home Energy Audit

 

Featured Landowners

• Featured Landowners: Landowners Pursue Love of Apples Through High Elevation School of Hard Knocks
• Featured Landowner: Patching Together Sustainable Living on the High Plains-Raspberry Patch Grows into Berry Bonanza

 

Websites

• Efficient Home Design(U.S. Dept of Energy site)
• Six Energy Effieciency Improvements(government Energy Star site covers various aspects including DIY projects)
• Passive Solar Homes Design (U.S. Dept of Energy site Discusses some of the basics of solar design)

Barnyards and Backyards Articles

• Put Wyoming's Sunny Disposition to Work
• Featured Landowner: Sun, Wind Power Weans Homeowner off the Grid
• Geothermal Heat Pumps: A Better Way to Cool Your Home
• How to Determin of That Renewable Energy Project Makes Economic Sense
• Is Photovoltaic Technology the Answer to High Energy Costs?
• Renewable Energy Options Harness the Wind, Lasso Solar Energy, and Use the Earth Itself
• Solar Electric Systems: Making Wyoming's Sunny Skies Work for You
• Solar Thermal: A Cost Effective Renewable Energy

 

UW Extension Publications

• Considerations for Small Wind Systems in Wyoming (UW CES 2009)
• What is Renewable Energy? -The Basics (UW CES 2009)

 

Videos

• Renewable Energy, Solar PV & Net Metering
•  Solar and Wind Power Considerations for Small Acreages ( filmed May 2009)

Part 1- Overview and pros and cons of off -grid living

Part 2- Overview and pros and cons of off-grid living (continued)

Part 3- Basic components of an off-grid power system

Part 4- Solar power systems

Part 5- Solar power systems (continued)

Part 6- Wind power systems

Part 7- Wind power systems (continued)

Part 8- Wind power systems (continued)

Part 9- Batteries

Part 10- Economic considerations of alternative energy systems

• Solar Thermal & Geothermal Heat Pumps