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* theenergydude's Community Call
Gary Carmichael, The Energy Dude, will be interviewed me about solar trackers.
We discussed solar tracking advantages and disadvantages for a number of applications.
He asked me about my life, times, and interests, it was great fun.
He interviewed me on Saturday 2009/03/21 01:00 PM EDT
http://www.talkshoe.com/tc/40649

LED3X for sale
* LED3X Solar Tracker
A simple, accurate, low cost, single axis electronic solar tracker based on using green LEDs as photovoltaic light sensors.

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I have many interests ranging from amateur radio and astronomy to auto racing and mechanics. One general thread is the use of electronics and computers to devise low cost smart solutions to many of the problems I encounter.
information
Heliostat Information.

definitions
SOLAR DEFINITIONS:

HELIOSTAT or CENTRAL RECEIVER SYSTEM:

1. A heliostat is a two axis solar tracking mirror that reflects sunlight onto a fixed receiver.

2. Furthermore, the geometry between the Sun, Mirror, and Receiver are constantly changing throughout the day. (There is a special case, the coelostats, where light is sent along the polar axis and where the geometry is approximately fixed throughout the day.)

3. In general the mirror is aimed normal to the bisector between the sun and receiver.

Archimedes Archimedes in ancient Syracuse.

mechanical
Early Mechanical Heliostats and Coelostats
Ok, and some modern ones for illustration.
heliostats
Heliostats, generally, reflect light onto a stationary target.
They cover a range of devices such as Coelostats and Siderostats.
However, we usually consider heliostats as having 1 mirror with coelstats having 2 or more mirrors.
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Type 1 coelostat:
1. Rotate the main mirror once in 24 hours around the polar axis directly in Right Ascension.
2. The main mirror has a seasonal "Tilt" in DEClination to reflect the sunlight along the polar axis.
3. The secondary mirror, if used, reflects light in any desired direction away from the polar axis.
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Coelostat Type 1
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Type 2 coelostat:
1. Rotate the main mirror once in 48 hours around the polar axis in Right Ascension.
2. The main mirror in not tilted at all. The plane of the mirror is parallel with the polar axis. Sunlight is reflected away from the polar axis at an angle equal to the suns seasonal DEClination.
3. The secondary mirror is positioned to reflect light in any desired direction. This mirror has a seasonal positional movement as well as a seasonal tilt. (Note! The diagram says the secondary is fixed but it isn't. Either the main or secondary mirror mount must be moved to adjust the geometry seasonally.)
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Horizontal output
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Type 3 coelostat:
1. The Type 3 Coelostat has the main and secondary mirrors are set to exactly 45 degrees.
2. Rotate the main mirror once in 24 hours around the polar axis directly in Right Ascension. Note! This sends the light directly along the polar axis.
3. The secondary mirror has a seasonal "Rotate" in DEClination to reflect the sunlight along the polar axis.
4. The tertiary mirror, if used, reflects light in any desired direction away from the polar axis.
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Sandia Heliostat Array National Solar Thermal Test Facility. (T Pole Design)
Central Receiver Solar II Central Receiver. (T Pole Design)
practicalsolar
Practical Solar Inc. Practical Solar, Inc. (T Pole Design)
clfr
CLFR
Compact Linear Fresnel Reflector (CLFR) (CLFR Design)
The University of Sydney School of Physics
This is the new kid on the block.
An interesting variation of a heliostat using linear movable mirror strips. This concept only tracks in one axis. In this case I believe it satisfies the definition of a heliostat because the second axis movement is not required. Movement of the image does occur along the line of the stationary receiver.
A truly new and unique design. This has the potential to make large heliostat systems truly cost effective. The design is highly scalable. In other words as the size goes up the component cost to power ratio, $/W, actually goes down.
T Pole heliostat costs go up as size increases mainly due to exponentially increasing bending moments in high winds.

The "Compact" part of the CLFR, of which they got their patent, stems from the method they use to aim the mirrors at one of two receivers at different times of the day.
hdsolar
HD Solar HelioDynamics (LFR) Design
"LFR", Linear Fresnel Reflector, instead of CLFR because each mirror always aims at a single line receiver.
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hinge Hinge (Hinge design)
receiveraxis
receiveraxis Receiver Axis (Receiver Axis design)
Heliotrack HeliotrackSolar Heliostat: A device capable of reflecting sunshine to a stationary target throughout the day.(Receiver Axis Design)

dish
DISH:
A dish is a two axis solar tracking mirror that reflects sunlight onto a receiver, generally circular shaped, that is in alignment with the sun and the central axis of the mirror.
Sandia Dish Sandia Dish

trough
TROUGH:
A trough is a solar tracking mirror, either one or two axes, that generally reflects sunlight onto a linear receiver that is perpendicular to and is in alignment with the sun and the central axis of the linear parabolic mirror. A variation is the use of linear lens elements.
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NS Axis Trough Sandia North-South Axis Trough
troughpolar
Polar Axis Trough Polar Axis Trough

furnace
SOLAR FURNACE:
One version of a solar furnace is the combination of a heliostat and a fixed dish.
Sandia Solar Furnace. (T Pole Design)

concepts
Heliostat design concepts 960301.
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up970331
Update of Heliostat arrays 970331.
Arrays  Computer  Costs  Description  Divergence  Front  Furnace  Lighting  Neat  Odeillo  Plan  Side.

up980301
Update of Heliostat arrays 980301.
1997  Axis  Bridge  Challenge  Computer  Converters  Costs  Cover  Deflandre  Diodes  Dish  Efficiency  Engine  Fresnel  Heliostat  Hinge  Horizontal  Richard J. Komp, Ph.D.  Mylar  Polar  PV  Sayre  Size  Software  Thermal  TPole  Tracker  Trough.


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* "David N. Wells" <laseraxe@erols.com>
* The Northside Company.
* Davids concentrator is similar to the Russell patent# US4148564.
This is a Power Point slide presentation.

* The same thing in HTML.
The Helix Nebula moshier
* Astronomy and numerical software source codes by
* "Stephen L. Moshier" <steve@moshier.net>
* aa-56.zip Self contained Ephemeris Calculator.
This is a neat program that can be run as a subroutine. Its written in C.
Keith Burnett burnett
* Keith has written codes for the Position of the Sun.
They're based on page C24 of the 1996 Astronomical Almanac.
He presents it in the forms of Formulas, QBasic ( works with Power Basic ), and Excel 97 Spreadsheet.
* "Keith Burnett" <kburnett@btinternet.com>
analema analemma
* The Analemma
Key to astronomical and solar tracking mathematics.
* Red Rock Analemma Page
A bunch of links to solar astronomical info.
Borealis Power Technology borealis
* Borealis Power Technology
They hold patents on an exciting now type of electric power generation technology called Power Chips.
They operate on the electron thermionic emmmision principal.
See: * Borealis on my patent page.
Power From The Sun pfts
* Power From The Sun
A very nice solar book on the net.
Solar Mike's mike
* Solar Mike's Photovoltaic web page.
I'm still alive but my personal website isn't. It took a lot of time to maintain and I've taken a job with Array Technologies, Inc. I did pick up the URL http://www.solarmike.com but have not done anything with it. Any specific questions...drop me an email
"Solar Mike, Michael Reed, Sales Manager" <mreed@wattsun.com>

Array Technologies, Inc.
3312 Stanford NE
Albuquerque, NM 87107, USA

PH: 505-881-7567
FX: 505-881-7572
URL: www.wattsun.com

Mr. Solar mrsolar
* Mr. Solar.
Your contact point for information, products and services about every aspect of solar, wind & water power.
Mr. Solar sspence
* "Steve Spence" <sspence@green-trust.org>
* green-trust.org
Steves website has a wealth of alternative energy topics.
LedSHex3 led3
redrok
tracker
* Red Rock Energy
I make a simple, low cost, single axis electronic solar tracker based on using green LEDs as light sensors.
Dew Point dew
* Dew Point, dew.exe
I have a useful program for calculating and converting between Dew Point, Relative Humidity, and Ambient Temperature.
Click on this line to download the program.
parabola
AMSI
amsi
* Drawing a parabola with a T square.
Focal Length Calculation focallength
Parabolic Focal Length Calculations
The focal length and image size of a parabola can be calculated with some simple measurements.
Measure the Radius distance of the parabola from the rim to the central axis and Depth of the dish.

R  = Radius
D  = Depth
FL = Focal Length
S° = Solar diameter in degrees of arc. About 0.5°
I  = Ideal Image Size formed by a perfect parabola.

Example:
The Radius of a 10' satellite dish in inches = 60"
Depth = 21"

R^2   / (D   * 4) = FL
60"^2 / (21" * 4) = 42.9" Focal Length

TAN(S°   / 2) * 2 * FL    = I
TAN(0.5° / 2) * 2 * 42.9" = 0.37" in diameter
Of course a real 10' satellite dish is not nearly
that perfect. They have a focal zone diameter of
about 3". 
The rule of thumb is the Ideal Image diameter of
the Sun is about 1% of the Focal Length.
Parabola using a string Parabola using a Rotozip tool
CdS solar tracker demartile
* "Rich DeMartile" <rich_demartile@prodigy.net>
was kind enough to provide some CAD drawings on a method of producing a parabola. Thanks Rich.

* Rich also has posted a schematic of a solar tracker and mount based on a pair of CdS photo cells.
Jeremiah Chace Jeremiah Chace
chace
* Jeremiah Chace's web page.
* Jeremiah has a shareware program to plot parabolas. troughs8.exe
Click on this line to download the program.

* "Jeremiah Chace"  <jeremiahchace@wildblue.net>
Sunflower sunflower
* Doug Wood
* "Sunflower" <fox@harbornet.com>
Doug makes very interesting low cost parabolic dishes. They are based on long strips of glass mounted on a truss frame.
* Solar Energy Return on Investment.
* Square dish solar concentrator designed for high intensity concentrator photovoltaic (CPV) space cells.
Teton Engineering Inc teton
* Teton Engineering Inc.
A Tracking Solar Concentratorfor for the home experimenter.
This concentrator, based on 1 square foot mirror tiles, is the first solar system I studied. It was, I think, the one presented in Mother Earth News many years ago.
Ra Energy FDN ra
* Ra Energy FDN
The Solar Hydrogen Economy is the Gandhi strategy, the missing part to civilization's greater puzzle and the key to the elusive paradigm shift.
Raleigh Myers <ramyers@igc.org> describes an interesting off axis parabolic trough constructed from concrete.
The Energy Warrior warrior
* The Energy Warrior
Nielsen Enterprises nielsen
mylar
* Nielsen Enterprises <http://www.mirrorsheeting.com/>
3019 S. 256th St.
Kent, WA. 98032
(253) 941-7281
They sell good quality reflective aluminized mylar in a variety of sizes.
Sohara sohara
* Sohara.
Directable Mirrors - A Better Way To Focus The Sun.
Beaty beaty
* William Beaty
Infinitely large solar furnace.
Event Horizons event
* Event Horizons.
* Ken Kolbly is working on heliostats.
Pine Associates Ltd. nick
* Nick Pine is expert at solar thermal calculations.
* Nick designs Solar Closets and Sunspaces and has an extensive FAQ.
* He has a program to kerf cut wooden ribs for parabolic troughs. kerf.bas
Click on this line to download the program.

* "Nick Pine" <nick@acadia.ee.vill.edu>
Jim Brown's house air
* Jim Brown's main page.
* Air transfer solar collector on Jim's house.
Solar cookers Solar cookers
Gujarat Gujarat
Itahari
cooker
* Solar cookers.
Steven Harris steveharris
* SUNSHINE TO DOLLARS By Steven Harris
* Reel time temperature measurements of his solar oven.
Spiral Concentrator spiral
* Spiral Concentrators
by Steenblik
SunSpot sunspot
* SunSpot
Making good use of the Sun.
Fresnel Solar Cooker Design
by Ed Norman
Clear Dome Solar cleardom
* ClearDome Solar cooking reflectors.
Webb Mealy's Solar Cooker mealy
* Webb Mealy's Solar Cooker
Webb has several nice videos of his project.
* An Excel to set mirror angles. WebbMealy1.xls
Dish Turbine
Gear Box Track
newton
* C. Christopher Newton
This is a beautiful example of a Solar Dish Steam Turbine Electric Generator.
This was his masters thesis project.
Attached is a copy of his thesis paper which is on a concentrated solar thermal steam system.
In the appendices of the paper, you will find the diagrams for the steam turbine.
With the proper amount of steam supplied, the turbine is capable of 5 hp.
Suntenna suntenna
* Suntenna
Solar Mosaic Basics
Fresnel Concentrators
by Jim Mallos
Practical Solar, Inc. practical
* Practical Solar, Inc.
They have developed a new, proprietary concentrating solar power system (CSP system) to harness energy from the sun:
a small-scale heliostat system that can direct up to 300 square meters of sunlight onto a single square meter. This concentrated solar energy can be used to produce heat, light and power for a virtually unlimited number of applications, at only a fraction of the cost of other solar technologies.
Helio Track heliotrack
* Helio Track
Solar Heliostat: A device capable of reflecting sunshine to a stationary target throughout the day.
This is an example of a "receiver axis" heliostat.
Leo Gerst's Heliostats gerst
* Leo Gerst's Heliostats.
This is an example of an "in line" solat tracker driving a "T Pole" heliostat.
Erik Rossen's Mini-Heliostat rossen
* Erik Rossen's Mini-Heliostat page.
(Erik has extensive bookmarks to many subjects.)
Suntenna domestat
* Inflaitable Heliostat
by Gary Reysa
Ostergren
Ostergren
ostergren
* The Heliostat Team
Dr. Warren Ostergren

* An interesting heliostat
with a gimbol mount, moved by weight shifting.
Steve Baer zomeworks
* Zomeworks
Pasive Energy Products and Heliostats. A leader in the development and manufacture of passive energy products since 1969.
* Universal Track Rack™.
* A paper written by Steve Baer.
Heliostats--Sameshine vs Sunshine
woodmill woodmill
* Otherpower
The Cutting Edge of Low Technology
* All Wooden Wind Generator
* Experiments
* Wonder Magnet
Solar Tracker elcheapo
* El Cheapo Passive Solar Tracker.
(Propane mass transfer activated).
Simillar to Zomeworks.
Poulek poulek
* Traxle
Poulek Solar
Polar mount with tracker.
Wattsun wattsun
* Wattsun Solar Trackers
Wattsun Trackers provide you with more solar power for less money.
Your power is harvested in a smooth dawn to dusk flow.
Wattsun Trackers maximize your investment in solar power.
* And a bunch of solar data including Excel Spreadsheets.
* Excel spreadsheet to graphicly show the shadowing effects of multiple tracked panels. This one is for 40 degrees of latitude.
Small Power Systems smallpow
* Small Power Systems
Trackstar
Small Power Systems is a company in search of answers to the world's energy and environmental Problems.

<George@smallpowersystems.com>
Thermal Energy Direct thermed
* Thermal Energy Direct
Designers and Manufactures of Advanced Solar Systems.
They make solar trackers
Wind & Sun windsun
* Wind & Sun
by Warren Lauzon.
Sun Tracking stracker
* Sun Tracking
These guys seem to have disappeared.
Sun Tracking sunlink
* Sun-Link Tracker
Solar Sundial solarsundial
* Solar Sundial Tracker
The Solar Sundial Tracker is an easy way to get more power out of your solar panels.
<info@solarsundial.com>
These guys seem to have disappeared.
The Analog Guy tag
* The Analog Guy Solar Trackers:
ST2-48V5A SINGLE & DUAL AXIS SOLAR TRACKER 56V 5A MAX
ST2-12V DUAL AXIS SOLAR TRACKER 18V 0.5A MAX
<info@theanalogguy.com>
One of my competiters.
CampaTracka campatracka
* CampaTracka
Dave Harvey makes solar trackers loosly based on my LED5 low power solar trackers.
He uses mechanical relays to increase output current to 3 amps. <dave@campatracka.com>
One of my competiters.
Solener Solar Tracking solener
* SOLENER TRACKING SYSTEMS
One and two axis tracking systems which are now entering the stage of commercialisation. Grid-connected system incorporating two-axis tracking systems and high wind-speed protection.
SSI-200W Grid-Tied Inverter envirotech
* Envirotech's SSI-200W Grid-Tied Inverter
SSI, Smart Sine-wave Inverter.
Rated at 200W. However, it is not UL approved yet.
$289us
This inverter connects between a PV panel, or other power source, and the 120V 60Hz grid. It operates the PV panel at the MPPT, Max Power Point Tracking, mode to get the most energy transfer per day.
Jade Mountain jade
* Jade Mountain
Appropriate Technology For Sustainable Living
Over 6000 Products Professional Experience Since 1972.
Natural Energy Systems natural
* Natural Energy Systems, Inc.
Solar PV and Wind in White Bear Lake, MN.
(We live in the same town.)
Home Power * Home Power Magazine
Renew Magazine * Renew Magazine
ME3 me3
* Minnesotans for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ME3).
NESEA nesea
* NESEA
Northeast Renewable Energy Association aims to strengthen the economy and improve the environment by bringing clean electricity, green transportation, and healthy, efficient buildings into everyday use.
Renewable energy webring webring
* The Renewable Energy Webring.
Midwest Renewable Energy Association mrea
* Midwest Renewable Energy Association
Their Mission: The Midwest Renewable Energy Association is a nonprofit network for sharing ideas, resources, and information with individuals, businesses, and communities to promote a sustainable future through renewable energy and energy efficiency.
American Solar Energy Society ases
* American Solar Energy Society
is a national organization dedicated to advancing the use of solar energy for the benefit of U.S. citizens and the global environment.
Arizona Solar Center arizona
* Arizona Solar Center
Your source for information on solar energy in Arizona.
National Database of State Incentives for Renewable Energy (DSIRE) dsire
* State Programs and Regulatory Policies Table.
EnergyPlus energyplus
* EnergyPlus
EnergyPlus is a new building energy simulation program for modeling building heating, cooling, lighting, ventilating, and other energy flows.
National Reneuable Energy Laboratory nrel
* NREL
* National Renewable Energy Laboratory
* Solar Radiation Data Manual for Flat Plate and Concentrating Collectors.
* HOMER
The Hybrid Optimization Model for Electric Renewables.
NASA nasa
* NASA
Surface meteorology and Solar Energy Data Set (release 3)
RETSCREEN retscreen
* Canadian based solar data.
Langley langley
* Surface Solar Energy Data Set
Monthly Averaged Regional Data.
This is a monthly solar energy data set for the whole earth. They have a lot of data about sizing and orientation for solar systems.
Meteonorm meteonorm
* Meteonorm
Global Meteorological Database for Solar Energy and Applied Meteorology.
They sell a CD of world meteorological data with hourly resolution.
Paul Scherrer Institute psi
* PSI
Paul Scherrer Institute.
Renewable Resource Data Center rredc
* RReDC
Welcome to the Renewable Resource Data Center.
Stretched Membrane Heliostats saic
* SAIC
* Solar Power Technologies
* Stretched Membrane Heliostats.
CRACKED cracked
* THE HAZARDS OF SOLAR ENERGY
by Donald E. Simanek
A very humorous treatise.
CREST crest
* CREST
Center for Renewable Energy and Sustainable Technology.
Note, Crest has had some problems migrating to a new URL address. If dificulties are encountered make sure the link starts with "http://sol.crest.org/...." instead of "http://solstice.crest.org/....".
Greenpeace greenpeace
* Greenpeace
I don't agree with much of what Greenpeace stands for. However, they have commissioned a study of PV manufacturing plants for the future. This study has been well received.
This report proposes constructing large PV manufacturing plants to compete evenly with conventional fossil fuel power plants.
* Solar Energy: from perennial promise to comprehensive alternative.
It's a 63 page document in Adobe .pdf format.
Concentrated Sunlight Consortium weizmann
* Weizmann Institute
Concentrated Sunlight Consortium.
PIX pix
* PIC
The Photographic Information eXchange.
Midway Labs midway
* Midway Labs Inc.
* Concentrating photovoltaic concentrators.
* This is the most efficient and cost effective commercially available concentrating PV that I know of.
Unfortunately they may have gone out of business.
DNP Group scicenter
* Solar Electric Solutions
Energy Efficiency specializes in designing and installing photovoltaic (PV) solar energy solutions, small or large, freestanding, or interconnected with the power grid.
* Midway Labs
A solar Fresnel concentrator.
Solar-Focus solarfocus
* Solar-Focus
DNP Group dnp
* DNP Group
Manufacturers of large Fresnel lenses in Denmark.
SOLAR TRACKER egis
* EGIS SOLAR TRACKER
Intelligent Sun Tracking Heliostat Systems and heliostat solar illumination.
(One of my competitors.)
Sun Tracking Controller trak
* Solar Trak
Timothy M. Leonard, President
Enhancement Electronics, Inc.
Dual-Axis, Open Loop Sun Tracking Controller.
We do Mirrors but not Windows.
(One of my competitors.)
Four Solaire De Mont-louis solceram
* Four Solaire De Mont-louis
Solar ceramic furnace.
Acro Solar Lasers acro
* Acro Solar Lasers
Solar dishes and trackers.
Solcomhouse solcom
* Solcomhouse
The solcomhouse website will also provide information to everyone on how to do your part to save the planet. The Goals of solcomhouse are to provide the people of the world housing that is in sync and in harmony with the environment.
Solar Lighting Heliostats bomin
* Bomin Sun Lighting Systems
Dual-Axis Sun Tracking Controller.
(One of my competitors.)
Parabolic Troughs international
* International Solar Collectors, Inc.
Parabolic trough collectors.
Parabolic Troughs suntherm
* SunTherm Energy Systems, Inc.
They have a Solar Steam Electric Generator.
These guys seem to have disappeared.
Photovoltaics International sunfocus
* Photovoltaics International
Makers of single axis tracking linear photovoltaic concentrators.
These guys seem to have disappeared.
Hydrogen Information hion
* H-Ion Solar Inc.
Specializing in Hydrogen and Oxygen technology for sustainable energy systems.
Ecomall ecomall
* Ecomall
A Place to Help Save the Earth.
Coelostats solartech
* Solartech
2 mirror type heliostat lighting systems.
Jim Barr barr
* Jim Barr
Exploring ways to use renewable energy at a domestic scale and how to build and use small scale windpumps.
HyperPhysics hyperphysics
* HyperPhysics
Hosted by the Physics and Astronomy,
Georgia State University.
Bizarre Stuff bizarre
* BIZARRE STUFF
Bizarre stuff you can make in your kitchen.
Fun Science Gallery funsci
* Fun Science Gallery
a collection of scientific instruments and experiments.
Electronics Lab elab
* Welcome to Electronics Lab!.
Here you can find useful circuits with full description, diagrams and PCB, electronics articles, links and downloads.
Popular Scirnce Magazine. popsci
* Popular Science
The official Web site of Popular Science Magazine.
Junk Science Home Page. junksci
* Junk Science Home Page
"All the Junk That's Fit to Debunk."
The Free Energy Archive. free
* The Free Energy Archive
Skeptical investigation of free energy concepts.
Fun site.
PicoTurbine pico
* PicoTurbine
They provide plans, books, and kits for renewable energy education and homebrew projects.
Projects are available for fifth grade through adult.
* Subscribe to the Renewable Energy Newsletter.
Science Hypermedia Inc. scimedia
* Science Hypermedia, Inc.
Developing educational courseware for general chemistry, analytical chemistry, instrumental analysis, optics, and electronics.
Martindale's The Reference Desk calculators
* Martindale's The Reference Desk
All the online calculators you could ever need.
* Calculators.org

Online Conversions and Constants.
The Visible Human Project visible
* A Guided Tour of the Visible Human
The Visible Human Project has generated over 18000 digitized sections of the body. The animations and images in this tour use a few of these images to demonstrate planes of section and other introductory concepts in anatomy.
Science wiens
* Ben Wiens Energy Science Cyber-pages.
Williamson Labs williamson
* Williamson Labs
Look no further. You'll find it at Williamson Labs!
Learn Electronics for FUN and Profit, Painless Tutorials on Electronics, from the Basics Electronics to Electrical Engineering.
Science Toys scitoys
* Science Toys
Make toys at home with common household materials, often in only a few minutes, that demonstrate fascinating scientific principles.
British Petrolium bp
* The British Petrolium Statistical Review
Has established itself as a leading source of objective information on both supply and demand in the energy industry.
Shell shell
* Shell
There are a lot of answers here.
pvcells
The Solar Cell Net
solacell
* The solar cell co.
They carry; New, full, and broken solar cells, Thin films and small solar panels.
Sun Power Corp sunpower
* Sun Power Corp.
Putting Light to Work
SunPower is the premier manufacturer of ultra high-efficiency silicon solar cells. SunPower's current solar cell products include the world's highest efficiency concentrator solar cells, which are designed to work with a lens or mirror that concentrates the sunlight many fold.
Electronic Goldmine goldmine
* Electronic Goldmine
They have small PV panels and bare cells.
Plastecs plastecs
* Plastecs
Plastecs Company manufactures small Solar Panels as well as providing Crystalline Photovoltaic Solar Cells, cut to size in small or large quantities.
Solatron Technologies solatron
* Solatron Technologies
These are new high efficiency monocrystalline solar cells that were purchased from Tecstar Inc., a Southern California based manufacturer of solar cells for use in space based technology such as satellites and the international space station.
Cell Si Co cellsico
* cellsico,inc.
manufacturer solar cells,equipment for production solar photovoltaic panels,single crystal ingots,wafers for semiconductor and solar photovoltaic,vacuum coating equipment,component.
Practical Photovoltaics Richard J. Komp, Ph.D.
komp
* Practical Photovoltaics
by Richard J. Komp, Ph.D.
This book describes how to make solar PV concentrators to produce electricity and hot water. The concentrator is based on CPCs, Compound Parabolic Concentrators, by Dr. Roland Winston.
Build Your Own Solar Panel pjhurley
* Build Your Own Solar Panel
by Phillip J. Hurley an Ebook author.
All the information you need to build your own photovoltaic panel to generate electricity from the sun.
Staber System 2000 staber
* Staber System 2000
The most efficient commercial-quality washing machine on the market.
Rocky Mountain Institute. rmi
* Rocky Mountain Institute
A nonprofit research and educational foundation with a vision across boundaries.
Its mission is to foster the efficient and sustainable use of resources as a path to global security.
Energy Planet energyplanet
* Energy Planet
A visual and interactive web directory of information resources about renewable energy technology.
ECO Dedsign. sewage
* Compost Toilet & Greywater Recycling Systems Manual.


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heliostat
Heliostat Array Project.
Heliostat Project.

Arrangement  Frame  Plan.
software analemma
Analemma. The solar tracking software Project.
Analemma.

Analemma  Books  Links  Moshier
water
Water Distillation and Pumps.
Water Projects.

Airlift  Army  Bowjon  Dams  Distillation  GAIATECH  Greenhouse  Humidification  Hydraulic  Hydro  Pasteurization  Pumps  Ram  Still.

engine
Heat Engine Projects.
Heat Engine Projects.
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electronics
Electronic Projects
Electronic Projects

Actuator  Brad's-Trough  CDS Sensor Tracker  Chace Tracker  Charger  Charging Temperature  Damage  Rich DeMartile  Diversion1  Efficiency  EWB  IO  LED Solar Trackers  MPPT  Demoing my Tracker at the MREA Energy Fair  New LED Solar Tracker  NREL Maps  Patent5622078  Making PC Boards  PWM  Relay Tracker  Shunt1  Shunt2  Shunt3  Solar Trackers  Surface Mount Codebook  Terminals  Tracker Economics  Traxle  TriPod Mount  Under-voltage.
ev
Electric Vehicle Project.
Electric Vehicle Project.

Advantages  Battery Info  BatPack  Calculations  IGBT  Motor  Operation.
pneumatic
Pneumatics, Vehicles & Engines.
Pneumatics.

Engine  Nitrogen  Vehicle  Westminster.
misc1
Miscellanous Projects 1.
Other Projects.

Caution  Copper Properties  Dehumidifier  Differential Temperature Sensors  Hubbard  Enertron  Heat Pipes  Propane Tapper  Thermacore.
APRS
Amateur Radio APRS Remote Weather Monitoring.
Weather.

Call-Signs  CASI  Radio  Update.
formulae
Mathamatical & Physical Formulae
Mathamatical & Physical Formulae

Thermal Formulae
neat
patent
Patents.
Neat Patents.
Neat Patents.

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weather
GOES.
GOES Current Satellite Weather Photos from GOES.
GOES
MPX Weather.
wolf
Web Wolf.
Web Wolf Web Wolf, web page design and hosting.
flight
Virgiles Flight Simulator.
Flight Simulator A really neat personal flight simulator.
Vinz Decals Vinz Decals
phillips
Rob Phillip's placeVacation at Rob Phillips' place, in Maui!
dilbert
To the Dilbert ZoneFor a little humor.
rotflmao
The Acronym FinderThe Acronym Finder.
edit+
Edit+
Edit+ EditPlus is an Internet-ready, 32-bit text editor for Windows. I use this full featured text editer to write all my web pages. And only $20 to boot.
currency
Currency Converter
Edit+ Currency Converter.
pictures
Pictures.
Picture Gallery.

mug
It's Me
Hi all! This is my mug shot.

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