A DIY Alternative Heating Home System That Works

Harness the power of grass clippings!

If you could build an alternative heating home system fueled by readily available energy sources for only $200 USD or less, would you do it? What if you could heat your home for free, year round, after installing this same do-it-yourself heating system? Wouldn’t you at least want to know more about it?

Carl Johnson, a nuclear physicist focused on finding ways for ordinary people to reduce their carbon footprint and slow global warming while saving money at the same time, has put together a web site (http://mb-soft.com/public3/globalzk.html) that explains how anyone can create an alternative heating system that works by harnessing the energy created by ordinary grass clippings and other organic "waste"; the kind you probably throw away by the bagful every single summer.

Johnson’s alternative heating home system works by tapping the energy in the normal process of organic decomposition, the kind you’ve no doubt witnessed in any standard compost heap. The center of a compost pile gets very hot just sitting around decomposing; so hot in fact that often you will see piles of compost, shredded leaves, grass clippings or mulch generating smoke when the pile gets too high and is not regularly turned to keep it from catching fire.

Johnson explains that even though most people don’t notice how much yard waste their lawns and shrubbery actually produce, it can be shown that the average city lot produces enough grass clippings, dead leaves, and other organic waste to produce 170 million BTUs of heat.

The average home loses about 40 million BTUs of heat over the course of a single winter. It’s easy to see how building a home heating system that can use grass clippings and yard waste as a renewable energy source could save money and help save the planet too.

Johnson’s web site not only explains in detail how to harness this renewable backyard energy source and how to build the alternative heating home system that recycles it, it is also packed with other useful environmental and renewable energy facts and explanations, as well as links to other pages of interest for anyone wanting to cut or eliminate fossil fuel consumption.

As natural gas, oil, and coal become more and more expensive and dangerous, and as consumers become more aware of green energy and the need to reduce carbon emissions, alternative home heating systems are becoming more and popular and more common.

Some day, hopefully soon, people all over the world will look back on the days of burning oil, coal, and natural gas the way we look back at the Stone Age.