Alternative Energies VideolabThis hands-on lab plus video provides a multi-learning approach to science. The activities include producing electricity using photovoltaic cells, converting wind engrgy to electricity and demonstrating techniques used in synthetic fuels and solar energy. A full week's worth of activities! Includes the DVD "Alternative Energies: Fuels for the Future", teacher's guide and lab station materials. Grades 7-12
This is one of 12 Earth Science Videolabs that provide an interdisciplinary and multi-learning style approach to science teaching. These Videolabs are designed to be helpful to the inexperienced earth science teacher, as well as useful to the experienced master teacher! The combination of doing lab activities and viewing the concepts in a critically acclaimed DVD will result in a dynamically interactive classroom experience. Your students will appreciate the opportunity to reinforce the concepts they learned in the DVD video while doing the activities featured in the stations. The boxed lab for each week-long unit includes 3 components: the topic video(s) in DVD format, the materials for each station (often in labeled zip-lock bags), and the Teacher's Guide. The Teacher's Guide provides a valuable resource containing sections on general Videolab goals, specific station learning outcomes, teaching strategies and tips for success along with a day by day lesson plan. Copy masters are provided for the pre/post test, lab station instruction sheets and student answer sheets. A correlation of each unit to the grades 5-8 and grades 9-12 National science Standards is also provided. It is important to note that the stations have been designed to capitalize on a wide variety of learning styles. The SI system of units (metric system) and mathematics are emphasized. Enjoy!
The 2007-2012 Outlook for 9 MW Off-Grid Solar Photovoltaic Consumer Products in Greater ChinaThis study covers the latent demand outlook for 9 MW off-grid solar photovoltaic consumer products across the regions of Greater China, including provinces, autonomous regions (Guangxi, Nei Mongol, Ningxia, Xinjiang, Xizang - Tibet), municipalities (Beijing, Chongqing, Shanghai, and Tianjin), special administrative regions (Hong Kong and Macau), and Taiwan (all hereafter referred to as regions). Latent demand (in millions of U.S. dollars), or potential industry earnings (P.I.E.) estimates are given across some 1,100 cities in Greater China. For each major city in question, the percent share the city is of the region and of Greater China is reported. Each major city is defined as an area of economic population, as opposed to the demographic population within a legal geographic boundary. For many cities, the economic population is much larger that the population within the city limits; this is especially true for the cities of the Western regions. For the coastal regions, cities which are close to other major cities or which represent, by themselves, a high percent of the regional population, actual city-level population is closer to the economic population (e.g. in Beijing). Based on this economic definition of population, comparative benchmarks allow the reader to quickly gauge a citys marketing and distribution value vis-à-vis others. This exercise is quite useful for persons setting up distribution centers or sales force strategies. Using econometric models which project fundamental economic dynamics within each region and city of influence, latent demand estimates are created for 9 MW off-grid solar photovoltaic consumer products. This report does not discuss the specific players in the market serving the latent demand, nor specific details at the product level. The study also does not consider short-term cyclicalities that might affect realized sales. The study, therefore, is strategic in nature, taking an aggregate and long-run view, irrespective of the players or products involved.
The 2009-2014 World Outlook for 9 MW Off-Grid Solar Photovoltaic Consumer ProductsThis econometric study covers the world outlook for 9 MW off-grid solar photovoltaic consumer products across more than 200 countries. For each year reported, estimates are given for the latent demand, or potential industry earnings (P.I.E.), for the country in question (in millions of U.S. dollars), the percent share the country is of the region and of the globe. These comparative benchmarks allow the reader to quickly gauge a country vis-à-vis others. Using econometric models which project fundamental economic dynamics within each country and across countries, latent demand estimates are created. This report does not discuss the specific players in the market serving the latent demand, nor specific details at the product level. The study also does not consider short-term cyclicalities that might affect realized sales. The study, therefore, is strategic in nature, taking an aggregate and long-run view, irrespective of the players or products involved. This study does not report actual sales data (which are simply unavailable, in a comparable or consistent manner in virtually all of the 230 countries of the world). This study gives, however, my estimates for the worldwide latent demand, or the P.I.E., for 9 MW off-grid solar photovoltaic consumer products. It also shows how the P.I.E. is divided across the world's regional and national markets. For each country, I also show my estimates of how the P.I.E. grows over time (positive or negative growth). In order to make these estimates, a multi-stage methodology was employed that is often taught in courses on international strategic planning at graduate schools of business.
21st Century Solar Energy, Solar Power, Solar Cells, Photovoltaic (PV), Solar Thermal Electric Technologies, Research Plans and Programs: Series on Renewable ... Bioenergy, and Biobased Products (Ringbound)This important printed report provides a guide to the development of viable solar energy technologies. It includes a Department of Energy report, entitled Solar Energy Technologies Program Technical Plan 2003-2007 and Beyond. Topics covered include:
Solar Cells * photovoltaic (PV) power * flat-plate PV * concentrating PV * off-grid * on-grid * conversion efficiencies * solar thermal electric * the existing solar industry * DOE research goals and targets * Thermal dishes * towers * troughs * central generation * passive solar * solar water heating * solar heating and lighting * nanotechnology solar cells * organic solar cells * abbreviations and acronyms.
The report states: "The sun's energy is the primary source for most energy forms found on the earth. Solar energy is clean, abundant, and renewable. Solar energy holds tremendous potential to benefit our nation by diversifying our energy supply, reducing our dependence on imported fuels, improving the quality of the air we breathe, and stimulating our economy by creating jobs in the manufacture and installation of solar energy systems. Although solar energy is clean and abundant, it is diffuse and must be captured, concentrated, stored, and/or converted to be used in the highest value energy forms. The solar energy industry has grown steadily in just two decades and currently markets more than $2 billion annually in products. The U.S. Department of Energy's challenge is to lead the effort to research, develop, and deploy cost-effective technology to achieve its mission of expanded solar energy deployment. This first integrated solar plan includes research, development, deployment, analytical efforts, and partnerships aimed at producing photovoltaic, concentrating solar power, solar heating, and solar lighting systems that are cost effective. These solar systems have the potential to achieve penetration in markets that include residential solar water/space heating, distributed (electric) energy, process heating, cooling and refrigeration, daylighting, portable power, and village (non-grid-connected) power, and larger solar power plants. At the heart of this document are detailed technical plans for four solar energy areas: Photovoltaics, Concentrating Solar Power, Solar Heating and Lighting, and New Concepts. Each technical section includes a technology status overview, programmatic goals and objectives, description of key technical challenges, detailed technical targets (often for each component of the identified solar energy system), detailed technical barriers, a roster of activities that address the target barriers, and a summary chart that highlights key programmatic milestones and decisions anticipated over the next 5 years."
"The following are key drivers for pursuing greater use of solar energy: Solar technologies provide electricity, heating, cooling, and daylighting, and can even be used to produce hydrogen, which is a clean transportation fuel for the future. Solar energy is the most plentiful and widely available form of renewable energy in the United States and throughout the world. Solar energy is the origin for all fossil fuels, and we never need to worry about solar energy being depleted, as long as the sun continues to shine. Using current solar technology, an area just 100 miles by 100 miles (10,000 square miles) in the southwestern United States could generate as much energy as the entire nation currently consumes. To put the land area in context, 40,000 square miles of Wyoming overlies coal beds. Though generating all the electrical energy we use via solar energy is not the goal of the Solar Energy Technologies Program, it does show that solar has the potential to be a significant part of a diversified national energy portfolio. Viable solar energy is not limited to the Desert Southwest, however. In fact, the average sunshine across the United States is 1,800 kilowatt-hours per square meter (kWh/m2) annually, whereas the average sunlight in the Dese
