SOLAR ENERGY

ALTERNATIVE

Environment
Article about Doug Woods, big dish maker
Home Power Magazine, the hands-on journal of home-made power.
They have a free version of their paper magazine online. Very good
Home Power's RE Sites
A hell of a lot of renewable energy links
Nerd World : POWER, HEATING AND LIGHTING
Large Index of POWER, HEATING AND LIGHTING related internet resources created by Nerd World Media. List your resource or Create your own Index.
S-LEM - Swiss light electromobiles
Sellers of the Twicke electric automobile, popular in Bern
Solar Energy Economics
Builder of 40 foot concentrator dishes for $20,000
Solar Metalurgy
A small collection of pages concerning melting metal with concentrated sunlight
Welcome to Jade Mountain
Building a Sustainable World: Jade Mountain Renewable Energy.

ENGINES

QRMC Three Cylinder Stirling/HydraLink Animation and Description
Detailed animation of a Three Cylinder Stirling Engine by Quiet Revolution Motor Company, L.L.C.
A Compendium of Solar Dish/Stirling Technology
Bomin Solar Research
Stirling engine manufacturers. Vapourware?
Let's Build A Can Stirling Engine Step 10
Stirling Engine Home Page -English-
Sunpower Home Page
Stirling engine designers for cooling (mostly)
Guide to Solar Energy
A brief starting point for finding out about solar energy.

GOVERNMENT STUFF

Chapter 2: Current Activities
ELECTRICITE ROMANDE
Association of electrical companies in our region
Electricite Romande: Donnees
Info on consumption and production of electricity
EUCLIDES system
A description of the EUCLIDES low concentration photovoltaic project
Proyecto Euclides
Info on the EUCLIDES concentration photovoltaic power plant (in Spanish)
High-Concentration Solar Energy Optics - Chapter 4
Project in Israel to mount secondary mirrors on a tower to reflect the solar energy to ground level. Not bad.
Index NSW DOE publications
Index of NSW DOE publications and order form include famous "White Cliffs" report
Installations solaires: 3000 demandes d'aide acceptées
A press release about the Swiss Energy 2000 solar fund
Instituto Tecnológico y de Energías Renovables
Company in charge of running the EUCLIDES project in Tenerife
ISES - International Solar Energy Society
Le Four de 1000 Kw
Contains potentially useful targetting formulas
LESO-PB: Laboratoire d'Énergie Solaire et de Physique du Bâtiment
a lab at the EPFL interested in solar energy for buildings
List of East European energy projects
NASA Technical Report Server (NTRS), v 2.0
NASA Technical Report Server (NTRS), v 2.0
National Solar Thermal Test Facility
The Solar Thermal Design Assistance Center assists manufacturers of solar thermal and/or related products to reduce the cost and/or improve reliability of products.
OFEN
Swiss Federal Office of Energy
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
PSA - Main Page
Platforma Solar de Almeria
SEL Publication List
Solar Chemistry Home Page
Paul Scherrer Institute in Switzerland
Solar Power Technologies
Makers of big stretched-membrane heliostats
Solar Thermal Energy - SEDA
The NSW goverment solar initiative
The newsletter of the International Energy Agency's SolarPACES Program, Task II
The latest new in solar chemistry. Mostly about fullerenes.
Welcome To Battelle
Probably the source of the bigger-heliostat myth
Welcome to Fraunhofer ISE
Big German scientific institute, well-known for solar energy
WIRE Main
ISES online presence. Discussion forums extremely underutilized

HELIOS AND OTHER SOFTWARE

Astronomy and numerical software source codes
Astronomical computations and mathematical functions source programs in C.
HEMI Home Page
CECASE Newsletter vol 3 number 1

HELIOSTATS AND CONCENTRATORS

http://www.sciencewise.com/grantscontracts/searchp.htm?item=Federal
ScienceWise is the workplace on the Web for scientists and engineers, providing details on research funding opportunities, funding opportunity e-mail alert services, information on various scholarship and fellowships, collaboration tools, science headline news, and scientific articles and abstracts.
Solar Dish Concentrator Materials
Privately-constructed solar concentrator. Lots of photos.
Concentrator List Archive - by date
Concentrator List Archive - by thread
Gridwise: Solar Thermal Electric - Heliostat Manufacturers
Helio Home Page
A company making a hybrid concentrating PV and hot-water heliostat system
redrok 's Home Page
High Powered Heliostat Array Concentrating Solar Collector.
RENEWABLE ENERGY: SOLAR TROUGHS - PRICES
A new company offering complete solar thermal parabolic trough systems for electricity and hot water
SAIC Energy: Materials and Structures Division Information
SAIC: Science Applications International Corporation
SAIC is the largest employee-owned research and engineering company in the United States.
Solar Concentrators
Solar Concentrators Website
Solar Dish Concentrator Materials
Excellent description and photos of a home-brew solar concentrator
Solar Trackers Homepage
Solar Tracking, Embedded Systems, Data Networks
Solar Tracking, Thermal, Photovoltaic
Trackers

HAIL

Dents on hailpads are generally not circular
An article detailing hail measurement techniques
Hazards Project
Outline of an article (?) showing hail and storm contour maps of North America
NOAA TECHNICAL MEMORANDUM NWS CR-114
A detailed article describing hail statistics in Colorado with good references

PHOTOVOLTAICS

http://128.59.113.173/wwwnjt/peters/Solarcells
Somebody in the Turro group involved with TiO2 photosynthesis Graetzel cells
BP Solar Homepage
Not too much real information
CSR Photovoltaics and Thermophotovoltaics Group
GO SOLAR! photovoltaic energy for a renewable future
A beginner's guide to photovoltaic solar energy with numerous contacts and links
New step in photovoltaics large scale systems efficiency
A Russian group interested in analysing the economics of photovoltaics
PV Power:PV Web Sites
PVLAB
Renewable Energy Industry - Survey: Organisations
Solarex Home Page
BP Solarex is the world's largest solar electric company with operations spanning raw material manufacturing through to turnkey project design installation and training and component sales through a large distribution network.
Solar Systems
Makers of a 20kW high concentration PV system

PRIVATE COMPANIES

Yahoo! Business and Economy:Companies:Energy:Renewable:Solar
I thought that my pages would be indexed here...
ENTECH, Incorporated Web Site
Producers of Fresnel-lens concentration photovoltaic systems
INTERNATIONAL SOLAR COLLECTORS, INC.
ISC will move into production of solar electric power units, that are one-sixth the cost of PVs. A breakthrough..
KJC Operating Company
MIDWAY LABS INC. HOME PAGE
PINECREST: Living Off The Utility Grid
Home Page for Pinecrest
Renewable Energy Businesses in the World by Name
Renewable Energy Businesses in the World by Name with Web Sites
A list of renewable energy businesses with websites

SOLAR STEAM ENGINE

ANUTECH: Big Dish
ANUTECH: Technology Opportunities
Direct solar energy - Box 3
Entry for Stephan Kaneff
New Scientist Planet Science: Digital dream world
Technology Review: July 95: Solar Power
A short history of solar energy

SPECIAL MATERIALS

materials needed for making a field of heliostats

3M Lighting Light Pipe, Lighting Solutions for the New Millennium
TIR (total internal reflection) light pipe designs, a possible application for small heliostats

GROUND PREPARATION

Glossary of Shrubs, Vines & Groundcover

HIGH TEMPERATURE

ZYP Coatings, Inc.
ZYP Coatings, Inc. produces a complete line of high temperature coatings for use on ceramics, metals, or graphite substrates, in areas such as metal melting and forming, release agents, lubrication, masking, sealing, atmosphere protection, etc. Established in 1982, the company specializes in producing the most complete line of protective paintable refractory coatings for high-temperature use.
KilnTronics 09 Instruction Booklet

REFLECTORS

3M Innovation Network Search
A1 SUN-FOILTEC Switzerland, Windowfilms, Splitterschutzfolien, Splitterschutz, Sicherheitsfolien, Sonnenschutz, UV-SCHUTZ, window tinting, window film, fading, solar protection, energy efficiency, window treatments, glass tinting, glass coating, glare control, low e, ultraviolet protection
Swiss company selling protective films (UV, reflective, etc.)
ATI Mirroflex
American reseller of European mirror tiles
DuPont Home Page
DuPont is a science company, delivering science-based solutions that make a difference in people's lives in food and nutrition; health care; apparel; home and construction; electronics; and transportation. Founded in 1802, the company operates in 65 countries and has 92,000 employees
Nielsen's Enterprise Mylar
Siro - Language selection
An Austrian manufacturer of mirror tiles and handles

SOLAR ENERGY MATERIALS AND SOLAR CELLS

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