Efficient Planet Review – Does It Really Work?

Summary

Efficient Planet is a comprehensive set of diy energy instructions. It’s not just one book, it’s three. It contains 50 pages on efficient living, 51 pages on building your home wind turbine, and 71 pages on making your solar power at home. It would have been the best guide on the market, but it fell short of Earth4Energy by not providing free video instruction.

What we like about it:

1 – Complete step-by-step plans:

Efficient Planet is by far the most complete and content-rich renewable energy guide available. It has over 175 pages of simple, easy to follow plans and recommendations, and is definitely value for money at a price of $49.97.

2 – Additional free gifts

The Efficient Planet e-book comes with a number of useful free bonuses. This includes a 50 page guide on easy ways to reduce your power bill (valued at $49.97); and multimedia interviews with successful homeowners that have made their own home solar and wind power systems.

Additional, but irrelevant bonus items included is: ‘Project Wealthy’ – a kit that teaches you everything about running your own efficient home business. And what they call “Undisclosed bonuses”.

3 – Solid Advice:

A nice feature of the guide, is that it is broken up into 3 parts:

The first one is devoted to teaching you about solar power and how to make your own solar panels at home. But it also goes on to discuss the various types of solar you can employ at home, including solar heating, and solar roofing.

The second part provides step-by-step instructions, with diagrams on how to make your own home wind generator. It also goes to talk about the 10 false rumors about wind power, and how to use it effectively at home.

The third book explains a variety of clever ways to become more energy efficient without sacrificing your quality of living. Although most of the tips we already knew, some of them we didn’t. But it really rounded off the whole Efficient Planet package, and helped it achieve it purpose of showing you how to save power and money at home.

Problem With The Guide

1: No video instruction

Just when we thought Efficient Planet was the best energy guide on the market, we realized it has absolutely no video instruction. Many people that are technology inclined will struggle to just follow the written plans and diagram to build their first solar or wind power system. It would have been so much easier if we could watch it being built step-by-step.

2: Just another DIY energy guide

The Efficient Planet instructions seem very similar to what you get in other diy energy guides. But since the plans actually work, I guess it does not make any them any worse than the other guides. Furthermore, this guide is great value for money with all the complementary gifts you get with it. And that is why I preferred it to Homemade Energy or Homemade Power Plant.

Verdict:

Efficient Planet is a comprehensive set of advice and instruction on enjoying efficient living at home. Yes, this guide will eventually show the average Joe how to build a working solar and wind power system, but like the other energy guides out there, it lacks the video instruction that Earth4Energy provides. The bonuses make it great value for money, so it gets our #2 rating overall.

Tim McDonald is an enthusiastic DIYer that has been living off the grid since June 2008. He recommends you Try Earth4Energy for FREE if you are serious about making your own solar and home wind turbine, saving bucket loads of cash on your electricity bill, and living a greener life.