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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.   
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** 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 19th
 
 
* Week of June 26th
 
* Week of June 26th
  
 
==Labs==
 
==Labs==
* Week of June 19th
 
 
* 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
* Colin, put your umm information here in a separate wiki page
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* Degree day interface
  
 
==To Do==
 
==To Do==

Revision as of 02:24, 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

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