Below are a variety of links to web sites which contain material of interest to us.
Many of these sites were located using the AltaVista search engine, searching under various key words and phrases.
David Goldstein
On-Earth magazine description of Goldstein's work
McAuthur prize announcements
Equinox
vernal and autumnal equinox (NASA)
Energy content and CO2 Emissions for Fuels
Austrailian Institute for Energy
Energy Information Administration (EIA) Brochures
EIA Fuel and Energy Source Codes and Emission Coefficients
Carbon dioxide emission factors for Coal
Carbon dioxide emission for various fossil fuels
National Weather Service, Cleveland, OH
Heating/Cooling Degree Days for Cleveland, for each day for last 3 years
Weather and Winds
weather tutorial - Geosciences Resources
Connection between wind and waves
Building Materials
Efficient Windows Web Site
the NRFC rating label
Solar Heat Gain Coefficient (SHGC)
Window U-Values
R-values for building materials
U. S. EPA Energy Star Buildings Program
American Society of Heating, Refrigeration, and Air-conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE)
Oak Ridge National Laboratory Buildings Technology Center
Oak Ridge National Laboratory Laboratory for Measuring U-Values
ORNL Whole Wall Thermal Performance Calculator (on-line calculator)
Solar Irradiation Data and Calculations
Solar Radiation Data Manual for Buildings (NREL Blue book)
Building Data for Cleveland, OH
Solar Radiation Data Manual for Flat Plate and Concentrating Collectors (NREL Red book)
Flat Plate and Concentrator data for Cleveland, OH
NREL Solar Position and Intensity Charts
PV-Watts Performance Calculator
List of US PV Module Suppliers
Shell Solar , CIS modules, single crystal silicon
AstroPower, Inc.
Energy Conversion Devices (ECD), amourphous silicon modules
First Solar (Toledo, OH)
crystalline silicon
amorphous silicon
cadmium-telluride
copper indium diselenide
PV Question & Answer primer.
Scott Aldous, How Solar Cells Work.
PV-Watts Performance Calculator
Environmental, Health, and Safety Issues related to PV Technology (Paul Moskowitz)
Energy Efficient Lights
an LED flashlight (and other gems)
NREL's National Wind Technology Center
the American Wind Energy Association
Wind Turbine Manufacturer's Association -- Great source for information about wind energy!
Geothermal Energy
NREL's Geothermal Electric program
Ocean Thermal Energy
NREL's OTEC program
Building Energy
Lawrence Berkeley Labs Building Energy and Performance Site
Ballard - maker of fuel cells
REB Research & Consulting links on fuel cells
Hypercars, the next generation (RMI)
Earth-Sun Motion and Seasons
introductory astronomy discussion of various topics with regard to earth/sun motion
Blower-door vender
Infiltec -- radon detection consultant
Minneapolis blower door -- the Energy Conservatory
Infiltec
Thermography information
Selecting an IR imaging system
Inframetrics, leader in thermal imaging systems
Sony 8mm portable video recorders (for cameras)
State of Ohio Building Programs
Computer Modeling of Energy Usage
DOE2 software through ADM Associates
DOS version of DOE 2.1 for price of $395.LBL Energy Software Programs (Therm, Windows 5, etc.)
Energy Science and Technology Software Center
Clearing house for government-written software. Lists software and gives person to contact to purchase said software. Not very helpfulThe National Energy Audit Tool (NEAT) from Oak Ridge National Labs
Home Energy Saver at LNL
on-line calculator where you enter house data and learn about its energy useSAC Software DOE 2.1 software
vendor for DOE-2.1 and PowerDOE energy modeling software. The latter may have a graphical interface but I don't have much information yet.Eley Associates VisualDOE for Windows
downloaded a demo but haven't used it yet. It appears to have a convenient interface to the DOE 2 energy modeling engine. This is a very expensive package -- $1200 for full version.EnergyPro modeling software from EnergySoft (This appears to be good package for doing home energy audit of an existing structure, to calculate heat loss, etc.)
EREN Building Energy Software Tools
Elite Software AUDIT for windows (this does not appear to calculate building envelope -- only uses utility bills, and other general information)
EZDOE -- from Elitesoft.com, a DOS-based DOE 2 engine.
REM/Design and REM/Rate software (Design is good for calculating heat loss, but is geared towards new construction -- lacks materials info. for old homes.) Single academic price is $99 -- ordered a copy.
Easy Whole House Energy Audit by CRN Applications
a graphical based program for calculating heating and cooling loads for a building (download ez2zip.exe)LBL Energy Advisor -- calculations based on user-supplied information
CodeComp version 3.02 DOS software
UCLA School of Architecture Energy Design Tools
Windows and Daylighting Group Software at LBL
RESEM -- a pc (DOS) program for modeling retrofit energy savings
PowerDOE is a windows, graphical version of DOE-2 that is available for trial.
Embodied Energy
comparison for two model homes
David Robinson - embodied energy seminar
Energy Storage
thermal masses
flywheel energy storage systems
water reservoirs
hydrogen system
Oberlin College Environmental Studies Center
William McDonough and Partners
the Adam J. Lewis Center for Environmental Studies and its projected energy usage.
General Resources
National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL).
de Montfort University - Institute of Energy and Sustainable Development
Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Network (EREN)
BRE - United Kingdom's Center for Research on Buildings and Construction
jpeg picture library for environmental topics
EPRI - the Electric Power Research Institute
Solstice - renewable energy links.
California Energy Commission (thanks to Michael Hodapp)
Recently-Added Links (since April 15, 1999)
Sunlab, concentrating the sun's heat to generate power
How solar cells work (from www.howstuffworks.com)
Solar cell and submodule (small), module (large), and concentrator cell record efficiencies.
Added Links (since Mar. 2, 1999)
Dupont Tyvek home wrap seal
Blackbody radiation applet (Boston University)
Residential Energy Efficiency Database (www.its-canada.com)
R-values for various building materials
Harnessing Hydrogen by James S. Cannon
CliMoMan Climate Simulator
Committee for the National Institute for the Environment
Tables for converting energy usage to natural gas usage. (Peco Energy)
Energy Conversion Factors and Thermal Values (Utility Concepts, Inc.)
Energy Conversion Factors (from UGI)