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1. Site Assessment Trip to Mozda, India - Summer 2004

2. Site Assemenment Trip to Trishul, India - March 2005

3. Testing of Renewable Energy Technologies at CU Denver Labs

4. Alpha Testing of Technologies in India - Field Instalation of a large wind turbine and Renewable Energy Workshop in Dhule, India, April 2005

5. Testing of Home Scale Helical and Sevonis Turbines

 

Teaching Modules

 

1. Overview

2. How to build a 700 watt village-scale Horizontal Axis Wind Turbine (HAWT)
     a) Blades and tail vane
     b) Machining and welding
     c) Electrical and magnet work
     d) Assembly
     e) Tower construction


3. How to build a hamlet-scale Vertical Axis Wind Turbine (VAWT) with water pumping

4. How to build a home-scale Vertical Axis Wind Turbine for home lighting

5. How to build an electrical system

6. How to build LED lights for home lighting

7. How to build a Zeolite refrigerator

8. How to build an Anemometer

One of the main aspects of the sustainable energy system we're building is the Horizontal Axis Wind Turbine or HAWT for short (constructed using Hugh Piggot's plans). It utilizes wind to generate power for lighting the villagers' homes.

Our HAWT on testing day in March 2005.

 

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