Solar Energy Links from SunWind

How the World Works

He wrote a number of books, including one called "Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth". The Buckminster Fuller Institute now has a number of Fuller's works on-line.

A great new initiative by The Buckminster Fuller Institute is the www.spaceshipearth.org site, now in BETA.  Check it out and send in your comments and information.

Solar Energy Lessons

"Join schools from around the world as they try to figure out how their geographic location (i.e. where they live) affects their average daily temperature and hours of sunlight."

Teachers: FREE Hands-on, Multidisciplinary Lesson Plans. - elementary and middle school. "Teachers around the nation told us that they would like free, hands-on, multidisciplinary lesson plans in the hot area of energy...You can view complete lesson plans on-line. You can then download the plan as a PDF file and print it out." - Alliance to Save Energy.

Clean Energy Basics: Solar Hot water for students and teachers  - This part of the well-developed NREL (National Renewable Energy Lab) site lists solar hot water teaching sites, with projects and lesson plans.

Re-Energy.ca  - Pembina Institute's renewable energy education website, with activities and downloadable lesson plans.

Solar On-Line - On-line courses for Solar Energy applications.

Pico Turbines  - things that spin in the wind and are inexpensive. Source of a wind machine kit, the pico-turbine, and teaching books on wind energy from C.A.T.

Photovoltaics: Devices, Systems and Applications CD-ROM - "A key barrier to the introduction of photovoltaics is the lack of general technical information. The Photovoltaics:  Devices, Systems and Applications CDROM (PVCDROM) is a new publication that provides information on a wide range of photovoltaic issues from device physics to practical implementations of photovoltaic systems."

Need some pictures?  Try this. "ThePhotographic Information eXchange (PIX) collection consists of renewable energy and energy efficiency technology photographs."

Earthballs:  The Whole World, in Your Hands. "The only inflatable Earth globe which depicts our planet as it truly appears from space." 

Current Information Services

Questions, Questions

Some Recommended Links

REVIEW OF SOLAR COOKER DESIGNS - For a survey of the thoughtful designs that have arisen from our desire to cook with sunlight, please visit the historical and highly informational site of Dr. Ashok Kundapur of India. His Web site "presents about 56 major designs , 59 variations and 66 drawings of solar cookers."

NREL's Junior Solar Sprint  - Hot tips on building cars...excellent elementary and middle school mechanics lessons, combined with the opportunity to host a solar car race.

Home Power Magazine The Hands-on Journal of Home-Made Power. Simply the best magazine to learn about and keep up with solar, wind, and micro-hydro electrical generation. Free for downloading, with previous issues archived. Earlier issues have excellent elementary electricity lessons. Consider buying the CD-Rom's, and getting a subscription of Home Power magazine for the school library.

SolarBotics - Can you say, "COOOL" ?  Introducing Dave Hrynkiw's solar-powered robots, capturing solar power in capacitors and delivering pulses of pure power. B is for Biology, E is for Electronics, A is for Aesthetics, and M is for Mechanics. BEAM Robotics...get your hands on...!

SESCI -    Solar Energy Society of Canada Incorporated. Informational brochures on-line, Canadian Renewable Energy Guide, Annual Conference details, links.

Canadian Sustainable Energy Web-Site.   Independent Power Producers' Society of Ontario are maintaining this powerful Canadian site for Renewable Energy and Sustainable Energy in Canada. "Renewable or sustainable energy systems are those systems which provide energy services to people without depleting resources, endangering the planet or compromising the ability of future generations to use the same energy services. In Canada, the most promising sources of sustainable energy in the near term are wind energy, co-generation, small hydro, solar energy, and waste wood or biomass." In-depth coverage of each.

CANWEA  (Canadian Wind Energy Association). A powerful industry with lots of opportunity for growth.

Solar Energy around the World