Posts tagged "greenhouse"

Assembling Horizon’s WindPitch Wind Turbine Science Kit.mp4

This video goes through the step by step assembly process for the Windpitch science kit available from Horizon.

Why Solar Energy? (HD)

Free Energy From the Sun: THE clean, never ending resource! Onbeautiful Seabrook Island, nestled on the coast just south of Charleston, South Carolina, lies Camp St. Christopher It offers over 300 acres of beach, marsh and maritime forest and multiple facilities including meeting and conference centers, lodging, and worship centers. We’re excited about keeping you up-to-date on our progress and informing you about how this project was made possible. The process began last August when the State Energy Office put out information that there were going to be .9 million available in grants for alternative energy projects for non-profits. As soon as we found out, we immediately started getting in touch with local Charleston non-profit organizations to inform them about the opportunity. When St. Christopher responded about being interested, we setup a meeting for late September 2009 and went out to view the grounds and start planning. The RFP from the State was issued in early September. The government was looking at multiple factors before approving a non-profit like St. Christopher for the grant. These included visibility of project, potential job creation, overall benefit in terms of investment and payback of the project (they needed a minimum return of .50 dollars to spent). The grant writing process was long and hard, but St. Christopher didn’t have to worry about that. SES took care of making sure the grant was completed correctly and on time. Anything we were able …

Refuting Liberal Talking Points: Wind Farms & Wind Energy

The background material Wind power is expensive/requires subsidies/fossil fuel backup www.ncpa.org www.ncpa.org www.sbecouncil.org Wind power rarely operates at capacity and is unpredictable www.masterresource.org www.ncpa.org blog.heritage.org Wind power requires a lot of space www.ncpa.org Wind energy is not cleaner www.thegwpf.org blog.heritage.org If you like higher electricity prices, move to California (or pass renewable energy mandates in your area) articles.latimes.com tonto.eia.doe.gov blog.heritage.org www.ncpa.org

Passive Solar Heating – Glass is all you need

Zero Energy Design® abundant, clean, free-fuel, passive solar energy can easily eliminate the need to burn expensive dirty fossil fuels to heat air and water in most populated locations. The lowest-cost way to get started is Passive Solar Design – All it needs is well-designed, properly-oriented glass. Two our our key Zero Energy Design® concepts are: (1) Isolated Solar Gain in a greenhouse / solarium, and (2) Our unique Thermal Buffer Zone, which uses free natural convection air flow to move warm air from the sunny greenhouse to the cold opposite side of the building. By Larry Hartweg ZEDmaster@ZeroEnergyDesign.com See more details on our ZeroEnergyDesign and PassiveSolarInfo websites.

Solar Power 101 – how does sunlight turn into electricity

Please sign the Declaration of Endependence at www.endependence.info/declaration . Short and concise explanation of solar photovoltaic systems. How do they work? Do I need batteries? Produced by the on-line local action network, Endependence.info. Show us how you are saving energy. We’ll copy your great ideas. Energy independence, we can’t do it alone, but we can do it together.