Build your own small combined heat and power system for remote locations and emergency us - this might just enable you to tell the utility companies where they can put their bills..............

Steve Chastain describes how to convert car engines for generator use, build a propane carburetor, make you won engine governor, how to safely silence generator sets and stop vibration, making and running on alternative fuel including bio-diesel, recover exhaust and jacket heat to heat water and/or your home, select the proper batteries and chargers for inverter power systems, plus a whole load more.

It is assumed that you have a metal-working workshop and also foundry skills, although these could be subcontracted to a locval foundry.

This is an American book, so it assumes the running of air conditioning - the systems described are probably too big for European use, but can be scaled down.

Local power generation is going to come in; with this book you can start now. Instead of converting the engine to run on propane or bio-diesel, why not convert it to run on Producer Gas which, of course, you could make yourself?  351 page paperback, full of photos, drawings, sketches and tables.