Last week an interesting lecture was held by Dr. Frank Rudolph of Beacon Power about flywheel energy storage systems as part of the UNH’s energy club series of seminars on renewable energy. Flywheels are not a new concept, but the technological development in the last 10 years or so made it feasible to become a …
Category Archive: Renewable energy
May
10
Apr
23
UNH ECE Senior Projects at the Undergraduate Research Conference (URC)
Each year at UNH, the Electrical and Computer Engineering Seniors join with other engineering disciplines in the Undergraduate Research Conference (URC). Here they present their research projects that they have been working on for months, some even up to a year. This year, the projects range from renewable energy to digital imaging processing to audio …
Aug
03
Solar panels: how does the power to produce them compare to the power they can produce?
Have you heard the argument that solar palens take more energy to manufacture than they can actually produce during their useful lives? Here is an article that takes on this argument and shows that it’s wrong. Go solar panels! Andrew Kun
Jul
03
Live Earth – 7/7/07
Are you planning to watch the Live Earth concert on Saturday, 7/7/07? To learn more about efforts to solve the global climate crisis you can check out Al Gore’s website. The website also has a link to Live Earth. Andrew Kun
Apr
30
Solar power
PBS aired an interesting show on solar power. It’s called Saved by the Sun, and it’s part of the NOVA programs. The show discussed innovative approaches to making solar energy part of the power production landscape. One approach is that of Germany, where solar power is subsidized by the government. While subsidies cost taxpayer money …