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| Interesting (at least to me)
renewable energy projects that don't fall in the usual categories. Solar coffee roasters, water powered tracker, solar refrigeration, ...
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| Interesting Projects | |
| Mirror gives Italian Village Its Place in the Sun |
 "ROME
(Reuters) - A village in the Italian Alps is finally basking in winter
sunlight thanks to a giant mirror installed on a mountain top to reflect the
sun's rays into the main square."They use a heliostat to reflect sun into the town square. I've thought about doing this (on a much smaller scale) to reflect light into my east facing living room windows. |
| Building a Simple Sterling Engine Jay Wilson |
 Home Power Magazine article, issue 76.Interesting article on building a demonstration
level Sterling |
| Sterling Engine Information
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Many links to information on sterling engines. More links here from a
posting in Yahoo Groups:
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| Water-Powered PV Tracker Bill Spurlock |
 Home Power magazine article, issue 85Describes a clever solar panel tracking system that uses gravity feed water to power the tracker. |
| RedRok |
 An interesting and eclectic collection of information.
Lots of information on heliostats and simple but effective solar tracking
systems. |
| Roasting Coffee on Sunshine |
 Issue 105 Home Power MagazineHow to build a 1200F solar coffee bean roaster. |
| Solar Still ElPaso Solar Energy Association |
 Plans
for a solar still used to purify water. Report on daily output. |
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David Goes Electric Bruce Johnson |
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Power Magazine article, issue 53Interesting article on converting a walk behind gas tractor to electric power on a budget.
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A Solar Ammonia Absorption Icemaker Jaroslav Vanek, Mark “Moth” Green, and Steven Vanek http://homepower.com/files/solarice.pdf
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Power Magazine article, issue 53Interesting article describing a demonstration level solar refrigerator using Ammonia as the refrigerant and a parabolic trough solar collector as the heat source. The article may be available as a free download at the first link, if not, search the HP achieves for issue 53, and order the download. |
| Steam Power - An Introduction |
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Power Magazine article, issue 62Good article on with quite a bit of
detail on how to size, |
| Solar Autoclave Using Evacuated
Tube Collectors Sydney University, Australia Solar Autoclave Paper (pdf) |
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solar powered autoclave that uses evacuated tube collectors as the heat
source.Two sizes described. The smaller size uses only one evacuated tube. |