Eco Links
Sol: Earth (mostly) Power & Shelter


Earth Challenge
otherpower.com
Pure Energy Systems (PESN Wiki)

events
Home Power Magazine RE - Sources Energy Fairs
Mother Earth News Event Galleries
Inside Renewable Energy
Zero Footprint Events
Sol Living, Northern California
Solarfest, Vermont
SolWest, Oregon
Pondapalooza, photos of veggie oil generator mod from Pondapalooza


Domes
Housing, Dwellings & Shelters: Tipi, Yurt, Wigwam, Bow Dome, Star Dome, Geodesic Dome, Misc Domes, and more...
Domes Interior gallery from Pacific Domes

Vendors
Good Karma Domes
Oregon Domes
Monolithic Dome Institute
Pacific Domes
    American Ingenuity Domes
GEODOMES LTD.
Shelter Systems
    Worldflower Garden Domes
Star Dome
Spirit Mountain Yurts
also...
bit.listserv.geodesic

Underground Houses and Lab Build
UnderGroundHousing.com
Underground Building

Underwater
Star Wars-Inspired Marine Research Facility


Stardrive Class Power
Living Off the Land in Space: Green Roads to the Cosmos

Zero-G Tethers & Electrodynamic Power
Wikipedia: Tether Propulsion
Wikipedia: Electrodynamic tether
Electrodynamic Tethers in Space
SpaceTethers.com
Kinetic modeling of electrodynamic space tethers by Jean-Marie Deux (PDF)

Sundiver trajectories

Antimatter
PAMELA MISSION Website
Centauri Dreams: Antimatter

Magnets
Wonder Magnet
Forcefield Magnets
Sanmu Magnets MAGCRAFT Magnets

low solar orbit
Colonization_of_Mercury
Vulcan (hypothetical planet), inter Mercurial objects
ANTIMATTER FACTORY ON SUN YIELDS CLUES TO SOLAR EXPLOSIONS

Superconducting Magnetic Energy Storage (SMES)
DMOZ: SMES
YouTube SMES
SMES - Leg
Superconductor Levitation Kit, Forcefield - otherpower.com - wondermagnet.com
General References
Superconductors.org

Making Ceramic Superconductors
Preparing YBa2Cu3O
PREPARATION, STRUCTURE AND PROPERTIES OF A HIGH-TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTOR
Making High-Temperature Superconductors Copyright 1988, Colorado Futurescience, Inc.

Flywheels
RPM (Regenerative Power & Motion)
also see Solar Thermal Flywheels

Ultra/Super Capacitors
Using SuperCapacitors for Energy Storage
Baked seaweed and chips

Freespace Confinement
Ball Lightning?Aerosol Electrochemical Power Source or A Cloud of Batteries
hydrogen-boron Plasma Toroid Fusion?, Physics Forums thread


Hydrogen (H2)
American Hydrogen Association

Direct H2 Generation
H2 Thermolysis

Biohydrogen Production
Biohydrogen Production
Wikipedia: Biological hydrogen production (Algae)
PESN Wiki: Directory:Using green algae to produce hydrogen from sunlight and water via photosynthesis
"photosynthetic hydrogen production" amazon.com search
News
Green Trust DoE News: Berkeley/NREL Team Develops Green-Algae-Based Renewable H2 Production Technique , describes on Sulfur deprivation process
Wired News: Mutant Algae Is Hydrogen Factory
Wired News: Algae: Power Plant of the Future?
Wired News: Microbes Pass Valuable Gas
Growing hydrogen for the cars of tomorrow
Papers
Dr. Jürgen E.W. Polle - Research - Chlorophyll Antenna Size of Photosystems, includes papers
Maximizing Photosynthetic Efficiencies and Hydrogen Production in Microalgal Cultures, Tasios Melis
Maximizing Light Utilization Efficiency and Hydrogen Production in Microalgal Cultures, Tasios Melis
Issues in Photobiological Hydrogen Production, Tasios Melis
Blue-Green Algae Hydrogen Production, and Evaluation of a New Source of Energy, Rodrigues-Gallegos Hugo B.
NREL Basic Sciences Research
del.icio.us / jmcstras / algae popular
openwetware wiki: Hydrogen_Production_by_Chlamydomonas_reinhardtii_cells_in_Sulfur-deprived_Environments
Photohydrogen Article
Autotrophic and Mixotrophic Hydrogen Photoproduction in Sulfur-Deprived Chlamydomonas Cellsa>
Intermittent illumination increases biophotolytic hydrogen yield by Anabaena cylindrica
Hydrogenases and Hydrogen Metabolism of Cyanobacteria
Expression of two [Fe]-hydrogenases in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii under anaerobic conditions
Light, Hydrogen and Green Alga R. W?schiers* and R. Schulz**

Images
Green Algae
also see: 3D Graphics & Animation Links

H2O Electrolysis
Electrolysis of Water, detail of Electrolysis formulas
Homemade hydrogen
The BingoFuel Reactor v1.0 by JL Naudin
AquaFuel Generator
OUPower.com, (Over Unity Power Research), includes photo documentation of electrolysis experiments and methods
Vendors
Knowledge Publications: Hydrogen, Fuel Cell, ElectroChemistry

H2 Storage
Solar Hydrogen Chronicles edited by Walt Pyle(High on Solar),detailed information on making hydrogen fuel cells!!!
Metal & Crystal Hydrides
Russian Metal Hydrides Link
The Hygrogen & Fuel Cell Investor: Hydride Tank Info
A 1600 Liter Tritium Hydride Storage Vessel
HYDROGEN COMPONENTS, INC.: SOLID-H METAL HYDRIDES
Hydride Tank Regulators
Hydrogen storage using metal hydrides - practical issues
Vendors
fuelcellstore.com: Hydrogen Storage Products ECD Ad, SciAm 7/99
Chemical Hydrides
Safe Hydrogen LLC, producing H2 "slurry"
Sodium Borohydride
Zeolites and other Minerals
What are Zeolites?
nanomaterials & H2
Honeycombing Options
Fuel Cells
Vendors
SmartFuelCell
Fraunhofer ISE
more H2 storage resources
Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Links
Fuel Cells - Hydrogen Storage Possibilities

Hydrogen & NOx
RETROFIT AND ECONOMICS FOR NOx ABSORPTION WITH SELECTIVE CATALYTIC REDUCTION (SCR), includes cooling techniques


Heat Transfer
TEG - Thermoelectric Generators - Seebeck effect
Thin Film
µ scale N-P configurations

µ Turbines


Photovolatics (pV) (Solar Cells)
SEI: Solar Energy International
Solarbuzz: Portal to the World of Solar Energy
Forums & Docs
The Solarserver, Forum for Solar Energy, Solar Electricity and Solar Cells in Theory and Practice: Photovoltaics
Vendors (Educational Mini-Kits)
Solar Nature, cells battery chargers, mini kits
HobbyEngineering, BEAM Robotics Section
Sol Ideas Technology Development, includes educational kits

Vendors
Film Roll
FlexSolarCells.com
Sundance Solar: PowerFilm Flexible Thin Film Solar Modules
BRUNTON SOLAR & PORTABLE POWER
Outside Supply
www.4lots.com Solarpower

Crystalline
High Efficiency Nitride Passivated Mono Crystalline Solar Cells
Sun Electronics
Plastecs Solar Cells
MrSolar.com
Silicon Solar
Solar Electric Parts and Equipment, surplustraders.net
Sun Electronics
Solar Cell Co., sells used/broken cells
Collectors Mart - Solar Surplus Page

Vendor Lists
Used, imperfect, surplus solar panels and cells

Benchmarks
Solar Cells Compared

Making
Sol-Gel
Panels
Building a Solar Panel, otherpower.com fieldlines discussion board thread
Solar Panel Construction, otherpower.com fieldlines discussion board thread focusing on covering/protecting cells in panels

Cells Making Solar Cells with TiO2
Nanocrystalline Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell Kit
Dye-Sensitized Titanium Dioxide, Ruthenium-535 and Coumarin-343 dye for improved spectrum (400-800nm) sensitivity

Thin Film Making Equipment
DyeSol Equipment

Screen Printing
Screen-printed solar cell
IMPROVED SCREEN PRINTING PROCESS FOR VERY THIN MULTICRYSTALLINE SILICON SOLAR CELLS
Spray Machines
Coating Machines

Chemistry & Materials
How to produce photocatalyst
Photoconductivity in GaAs

Repair
Repairing Broken Solar Panels, otherpower.com fieldlines discussion board thread
Epoxy and Solder Mixes

Solar Related Electronics
CirKits

Trackers


Solar - Concentration
Concentrators
the solar pages
Solar Cooker Resources on the Web: Journey to Forever
Turbine Builders Club, features molds for concentrators as well as Solar Stream Turbine
Heliostats and Solar Energy
UC Davis ACT CACTUS: Converted Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescope Using Solar-2
Concentrator Optics
A Tracking Solar Concentrator for the home experimenter, includes updates to the original 1981 text
Solar Mosaic Basics, An array of suntennas capturing sunlight over fields of entirely stationary mirrors (includes POV-Ray renderings)
Junkyard Solar
Red Rock Energy Solar Power Heliostat Arrays (includes POV-Ray renderings)
Solar Energy Return on Investment: Solar Dish Concentrator Performance / TV Satellite Dish Antenna Costs, includes photos
A parabolic solar collector, parabolic design specs with use of copper paint
Concentrator List: solar-concentrator-request@cichlid.com
My Solar Concentrator Disk
Building a Solar Concentrator
Solar Devices: Low Cost, Large, Variable Focus Solar Concentrator
Ashhok Kundapur's Solar Cooker and Concentrator Pages
Solar Cooking
Solar Cooking FAQ

Reflective Materials
Mylar : neHydro.com, Hydroponics and Gardening Supplies
ClearDome Solar Thermal
Acro Solar Lasers

Dish Metrics, also see: Astronomy Links: Dishes
Inflatable, also see: Ballooning & Inflatables Links

Concentrator Solar Cells (High Intensity PV)
the solarpages
Directable Mirrors - A Better Way To Focus The Sun
High efficiency GaInP2/GaAs/Ge triple junction
Vendors
solar cells for high-concentration PV
Energy Warrior, advertises used stuff!

H2Thermolysis
Wikipedia: Thermolysis A new solar system for highly efficient thermolysis of water
FUEL PROCESSING AND THERMOCHEMICAL/PHOTOCHEMICAL CYCLES
High on Solar - Thermolysis Concentrators

Solar Thermal Repulsion Flywheel

Solar Tower
Atmospheric Vortex Engine
Solar Mission
EnviroMission
PESWiki: Solar Tower

Steam Turbines
Stirling Engines
SSRsi Stirling Technology
Will Rausch's Stirling Engine Links
Stirling Engine Society - USA
Stirling Engine and Hot Air Engine Home Page
Boyd's Tin Can Stirlings, Tin Can Stirling Engine Plans
The Moving Cylinder Stirling Engine
Stirling Engine Plans, plans for the Stirling-Steele Engine
The Moving Cylinder Stirling Engine
Steam and Stirling Engine Models and Kits, the hobbycorner.com
Stirling Engines of Saitama University: Building of Model Stirling Engine
DS Stirling Page
Scaling Parameters
Stirling Engine with Ross yoke
Quiet Revolution Motor Company, 3 cycle stirling

Flash Steam
Flash steam, otherpower.com field lines thread
flashsteam.com


Wind
Juiced.ca
Hugh Piggott - Scoraig Wind Electric<
windstuffnow.com
Airheads, *tons of wind turbine pics
A Wind Turbine for pumping water
Building a wind generator from scratch
Windpower, Dave Allender's site
Wind Generation in Peru
Danish Wind Industry, lots of animated HOW-TOs,
Windmission, includes workshop
Michael A. Klemen pages at North Dakota State University, home of AWEA-Wind-Home FAQ

Blades
Here are the plans to make PVC Pipe Props, fieldlines (otherpower.com) thread
Four Blade PVC Prop

VWAT (Vertical-Axis Wind Turbines)
VWAT FAQ
Darrieus Wind Turbines
Self-Starting Darrieus Wind Turbine, 2003-2004 Dalhousie Mechanical Engineering Group #7
Darrieus wind turbine analysis, including detailed plans

Anemometers and Wind Metrics
Homemade Easter Egg Anemometer, otherpower.com
An Easier Homemade Anemometer, Built using a digital bicycle speedometer, otherpower.com
Windtesting.com

Foam and Foam Cutting (figure it could go here)
Jim's Hotwire, wire tool for cutting foam

Wind/Sky Systems
LadderMill, wind power from a large tethered kite plane system
skywindpower

Wind Arrays
SuperTurbine, incredible roller coaster spirals!
Yahoo! groups: awea-wind-home, SuperTurbine group


Water/Ocean
Hydroelectric & HydroPumps
Micro Hydro-Electric Devices
Microhydro web portal, your internet portal on (micro) hydropower
Photo Collection for water lifting devices, water-lifting devices for irrigation in The Third World.
Vendors
Real Goods - hydro turbines & accessories, from 20 to 1500 watts

Wave & Tidal
LOCE Wind and Wave Energy Weblog, The web's first ocean and offshore wind energy weblog. Continuously renewed, like the ocean itself.
Wave Dragon, a large offshore wave energy converter, very cool design
Blue Energy Ocean Turbine, includes diagrams

Ocean Thermal Electric (OTEC)
USES: Energy: Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC)
Hawaii's OTEC Site
GreenOcean: OTEC Library
Xenesys Inc. - Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion


Alternators
Alternator and Generator Comparison for Wind Power, review of adapting alternators, otherpower.com article
Axial ("Disc") Flux Alternators & Permanent Magnet Generators (PMGs)
Scratch Built Axial Field Alternator, windstuffnow: Alt from Scratch
Axial flux windmill plans, from Hugh Piggott's site
PMG booklet page, Hugh Piggott's incredible guide
Radial Flux Alternators
Brushless DC Permanent Magnet Generators (PMGs)
Computer tape drive motors
Converting common induction motors to low rpm alternators, otherpower.com
GM alternator mod

Batteries, Chargers & Power Cells
Top: Science: Technology: Energy: Storage: Batteries
Lithium Ion
Solar Powered Lithium Ion Battery Charger
Deep Cycle
CAR AND DEEP CYCLE BATTERY FAQ
Apollo Energy System: Fuel Cell Development
Chargers
Battery Charger Circuits
Reviving & Repair
PulseTech
Vendors

Inverters
Liquid Sun Hydro, features integrated inverters and alternators

Generators: Construction & Mods
6 KW Proton Exchange Membrane Hydrogen Generator that operates at 1000 psi


Auto Conversion
Hydrogen, Hydride Tanks & Injection Systems, H20
Hydrogen Powered Commodore
HydroPowerCar.com
Gasoline Engine on Hydrogen Using Water
Bingo Fuel Ship, en francais
PWM Control for a "Simple Hydrogen Generator"
Switch To Hydrogen!, United Nuclear's page
Hydrogen Powered Shelby Cobra: Vehicle Conversion
Water Powered Car

Bio-Fuel (veggie grease, et al)
greasecar.com, functional and ready to go systems

Electric Cars
AustinEV: the Austin Area Electric Auto Association
ZAP is the world leader in advanced transportation including electric cars, fuel cell cars, hybrid cars, electric bicycles, electric scooters, seascooters
Building An Electric Vehicle An electric vehicle primer.
Electric Auto Association
Kits and Components
DriveEV.com Links


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