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Installing a home energy kit is proven to lower your power bill and help the environment.

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But, up until recently, it was also pretty expensive - the only way to install a home solar or wind energy generators was to get it done professionally, which could cost as much as $2,000. Even stand-alone conversion kits can sell for as much as $500. Luckily, the last six months has seen a crop of conversion kits and guides, which show how to generate electricity using the natural earth resources, with low cost materials, which can be completed even if you have little or no technical knowledge . We decided to sit down and review these new guides - our key criteria were ease-of-use, affordability of materials, power savings, and speed of installation. Overall, we were pleasantly surprised with the results - the technology evidently does work, and if you pick the right guide, you could well be up and running in a few hours.

We reviewed 11 Home Energy kits- only 3 met our criteria:

• Sizeable Power Savings - at least 40% more power efficiency
• Fast and Easy Setup - in only a few hours, even for novices
• Affordable Set-Up Cost (well under $100)

Our Choice Home Made Energy:

Home Made Energy Rating 9.8/10 Ease of Use Power Savings Customer Support Environment Benefits “Still the best Home Energy Kit in 2008…” Home Made Energy By far the easiest-to-follow guide we came across - our own experience says you should set aside maybe half a day to buy the parts and get it fully installed. This kit includes information for generating energy using solar panels and wind turbines. This is the only guide that assumes absolutely no knowledge about power engineering. Impressively, our support ticket was responded to in under an hour (although it could take a little longer at weekends), and there is an unconditi- onal 8 week money-back guarantee. Best of all, the technology required is readily available and cheap - we were able to access all the parts needed for well under $100. Given that its proven to decrease the power bill by as much as 80%, in some cases even completely, you could well recoup your investment in under two weeks. The installation of this kit can be done on any kind of house or building. Home Made Energy is aimed squarely at electricity “novices”, and it is still our top pick for 2008. Dec 2008 Update : there is now a promotionrunning on the site, and it is temporarily available for $49 instead of $297 we recommend ordering sooner rather than later. The Verdict: Fast and easy setup; works for complete novices; proven power savings of up to 80% - our top pick Go to Home Made Energy Earth For Energy Rating 8.5/10 Ease of Use Power Savings Customer Support Environment Benefits Visit Website Now Also Recommended 2. Earth4energy Our second pick uses a similar technology as our top pick - and again, we were impressed by the fast support, money- back guarantee and low setup costs. This kit includes comprehensive information on how to set up home solar panels with cheap materials, explained in a simplistic easy to understand manner.All in all, it’s a fairly decent package - which means you can be enjoying solid energy savings for very little, very quickly. So why only four stars? Well, perhaps we were spoiled by our top pick, but we found the directions a little harder to follow - and since ease of use is so important, we decided to knock off a star. But this product contains a good information about wind power generators, as well as solar panels. Click Here to Get Access to EarthForEnergy

Rating 7.5/10 Ease of Use Power Savings Customer Support Environment Benefits

Worth Looking 3. DIY Home Solar Power DIY Home Solar Power is our third and final pick, and it actually includes 2 separate courses to help you create your own Home Solar System. They report up to 50% reduction in the power bill - however the guide wasn’t so easy to follow, because it required some technical knowledge When a support ticket was submitted in order to inquire about some technical difficulties with the installation process, our support ticket was not responded to. A full, hands-on support system is vital if a relative “novice” is to install the technology, and here unfortunately it just wasn’t there. Overall this is a decent product, but unlike our top pick, it includes only information about Home Solar Panels, without including sufficient information on Wind Power Generation. Click Here to Get Instant Access to DIY Home Solar Power

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Half of the globe has warmed at least one half of one degree Fahrenheit (0.3 C) in the past 30 years, while half of that — a full quarter of the globe — warmed at least one full degree Fahrenheit (0.6 C), according to Dr. John Christy, a professor of atmospheric science and director of the Earth System Science Center (ESSC) at The University of Alabama in Huntsville.

Globally, Earth’s atmosphere warmed an average of about 0.4 C (or about 0.72 degrees Fahrenheit) in 30 years, according to data collected by sensors aboard NOAA and NASA satellites. More than 80 percent of the globe warmed by some amount.

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A map of Earth’s climate changes since December 1, 1978, (when satellite sensors started tracking the climate) doesn’t show a uniform global warming. It looks more like a thermometer: Hot at the top, cold at the bottom and varying degrees of warm in the middle.

This is a pattern of warming not forecast by any of the major global climate models.

The area of fastest warming is clustered around the Northern Atlantic and Arctic oceans, stretching from Arctic Canada across Greenland to Scandinavia. The greatest warming has been on opposite ends of Greenland, where temperatures have jumped as much as 2.5 C (about 4.6 degrees F) in 30 years.

During the same time, however, much of the Antarctic has cooled, with parts of the continent cooling as much as Greenland has warmed. But areas of cooling were isolated: Only four percent of the globe cooled by at least half of one degree Fahrenheit.

“If you look at the 30-year graph of month-to-month temperature anomalies, the most obvious feature is the series of warmer than normal months that followed the major El Nino Pacific Ocean warming event of 1997-1998,” said Christy. “Right now we are coming out of one La Nina Pacific Ocean cooling event and we might be heading into another. It should be interesting over the next several years to see whether the post La Nina climate ‘re-sets’ to the cooler seasonal norms we saw before 1997 or the warmer levels seen since then.”

Virtually all of the warming found in the satellite temperature record has taken place since the onset of the 1997-1998 El Nino. Earth’s average temperature showed no detectable warming from December 1978 until the 1997 El Nino.

Color maps of local temperature anomalies: