Sterling Dish 500MW solar power plant
Duration : 0:2:21
Dec 25
Sterling Dish 500MW solar power plant
Archived in the category: solar power
Nov 16
HELIOSTAT SUN TRACKER SOLAR POWER FRESNEL LENS GREEN ENERGY
Archived in the category: solar power
This is our first attempt at a useable Heliostat for our Fresnel Lenses. In future videos I will have all the information for a DIY system using very easy to find materials. We are developing a controller that is simple to program and can control any type of DC or even AC motors. Once completed I will share some open source information.
Duration : 0:3:29
Oct 07
Part of My 8th grade project: Solar power
Archived in the category: pictures of solar power
This is part of my 8th grade year-long project. I did my project on Solar and Wind energy. For the project we were required to have a visual on our presentation table. So i built a solar circuit with a 150 watt light bulb powering a small LED light, and a small computer fan.
I also built A Savonius wind turbine that generated about 1.5 volts. I plan on taking a video of my turbine in action, but i need to purchase a voltmeter first so i can prove that it actually makes electricity.
I had both my wind turbine and my solar setup on a table in my schools cafeteria. I used a small house fan to turn my turbine and a lab light to power my solar part. The solar part was different then it was in this video because i had it all mounted on a piece of plywood.
Gathering my supplies for my visuals and building them probably took only 1 month out of the 5 months i spent on the whole project. The other 4 months i spent gathering over 150 facts on the topic, vocab words, writing a journal on my progress, making a scrapbook of articles and pictures, and making a TriFold to put on my table.
The presentation was open to the public for 2 hours, and in that two hours i was swamped with people, asking questions, sharing stories, looking at my turbine and solar stuff…it was great. we were supposed to be able to leave our table and look around at my classmates projects, but i never got a chance to like everyone else.
But i had so much fun doing it and i learned ALOT! plus, i got an A!
Duration : 0:1:47
Oct 07
Solar theremin kit
Archived in the category: solar kits
Solar powered theremin type device from a kit by clockworkrobot.com. I’m not anywhere near close to playing a tune yet, but this just shows how the completed kit performs.
Duration : 0:0:42
Oct 05
Green-Trust.Org & Woodhenge.Org building wind turbines
Archived in the category: build wind energy
Green-Trust.org and Woodhenge.org on Discovery’s Science Channel “Invention Nation”
Aired on December 17th, at 10pm Eastern time. The Science Channel is found on both cable and satellite TV. Check out http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007/11/invention_nation.php. You will see show hosts Chris, Nobu, and Micah learning to build a 1000 watt wind turbine from scratch, which helps power our off-grid home. More information on our wind turbines can be found at
http://www.green-trust.org, http://www.woodhenge.org and http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/axialflux/.
Get the Wind Power Workshop, by Hugh Piggott, to learn how to build your own wind turbine as seen on our Science Channel episode.
Duration : 0:5:57
Sep 25
The Solar Powered Theremin. electronic music unplugged.
Archived in the category: solar kits
This is MORE than another optical theremin. This is a SOLAR POWERED theremin.
The Heliophone, an electronics kit available from:
http://www.clockworkrobot.com
The theremin was the worlds first electronic musical instrument and this tiny kit version has the added advantage of working with no need for batteries or external power. It works purely on solar power so when the oil runs out and civilisation crumbles to dust, you’ll be glad it’s not the end for electronic music.
More information about the solar theremin can be found here:
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/kinetic-arts/sculpture/gallery7/1.htm
The kit is very easy to build and suitable for beginners in electronics. It does require some soldering though.
Duration : 0:2:40