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** Read Colin's explanation of degree days (link below in Reference Material). Talk about it enough to make sure that you understand the details. | ** Read Colin's explanation of degree days (link below in Reference Material). Talk about it enough to make sure that you understand the details. | ||
** Work through (individually) the online energy audit at http://hes.lbl.gov using Miller Farm as the house. Make a note of your session number, you can return and re-calculate it. | ** Work through (individually) the online energy audit at http://hes.lbl.gov using Miller Farm as the house. Make a note of your session number, you can return and re-calculate it. | ||
** Spend an hour or more browsing the Real Goods <i>Solar Living Source Book</i>. I want you to get a good sense of the range of gear available in this space and the complexity and costs associated with it. | |||
* Week of June 26th | * Week of June 26th | ||
==Exercises== | ==Exercises== | ||
* Week of June 26th | * Week of June 26th | ||
==Labs== | ==Labs== | ||
* Week of June 26th | * Week of June 26th | ||
==Reference Material== | ==Reference Material== | ||
* Degree days explained - http://cs.earlham.edu/~copelco/wiki/index.php/Degree_Days | * Degree days explained - http://cs.earlham.edu/~copelco/wiki/index.php/Degree_Days | ||
* | * Degree day interface | ||
==To Do== | ==To Do== | ||
Revision as of 06:24, 19 June 2006
ENPR 256 - Sustainable Systems, Energy
Reading
- Week of June 19th
- Pages 76-122 in Reader's Digest Back to Basics
- Read Colin's explanation of degree days (link below in Reference Material). Talk about it enough to make sure that you understand the details.
- Work through (individually) the online energy audit at http://hes.lbl.gov using Miller Farm as the house. Make a note of your session number, you can return and re-calculate it.
- Spend an hour or more browsing the Real Goods Solar Living Source Book. I want you to get a good sense of the range of gear available in this space and the complexity and costs associated with it.
- Week of June 26th
Exercises
- Week of June 26th
Labs
- Week of June 26th
Reference Material
- Degree days explained - http://cs.earlham.edu/~copelco/wiki/index.php/Degree_Days
- Degree day interface
To Do
- Cleanup our weather data
- Build a local repository of Farmland's data or another nearby location, develop an interface
- Develop year-to-year comparison interface
- Track down the LP gas bills and put them in the database, on-going feed?
- Create a table and populate the occupancy data for the Farm
- Setup an on-going feed for the RP&L bills
- Track down the most recent wind survey data for this area
- Track down the most recent solar incidence data for this area