Department of Marine and Environmental Systems,
General information and background on renewable energy and other miscellaneous topics such as geodesy, lightning, and weather.
(Observe the leading icons throughout: construction sign, don't click; red ball, link works to page but no content; yellow ball, content started; green ball, fairly good condition; blue ball, final form.)
Check "What's New"
at the website log.
Check "What's Happening"
with the Florida Tech Renewable Energy blog.
See
RE
project plans and status.
The last few major updates are below:
Concept
of a Bandstand Stage for Florida Tech; Direct to the PowerPoint
presentation
Florida Tech can strive for a greener or more
sustainable campus by
emulating some other universities.
Started a page on solar concentrators
here.
See a proposed solar concentrator in PowerPoint
here or in
html here. This
concentrator would be converted from a C-Band satellite antenna reflector.
Electric boat races as an ocean
engineering student project in PowerPoint.
Hurricane Jeanne windspeed plot
shows one-minute sustained speeds. We had moved the anemometer Friday before the
storm struck and now will verify its calibration.
The Botanical Gardens
waterwheel has been installed to demonstrate hydropower at a small scale for university students
and as an outreach to local elementary and high school students. See the
PowerPoint slide presentation.
(The original concept is
here.)
Here's a
teachers guide for using the waterwheel as a field trip experiment.
"Toot", the electric boat, which
usually is charged with solar power
I designed the Wind/Solar Energy and Meteorological Field Station, FS-1, to capture
indications of available renewable energy and associated weather data.
The system records data in a Campbell Scientific, Inc. datalogger for analysis and realtime display. The system is also designed to present a renewable energy show at local schools or public events.
The small TV is showing a DVD on wind energy in this photo. A laptop computer provides slideshow capability and midi music.
The sound system can produce 340 watts peak power for support of solar-powered musical events.
Please donate to our renewable energy efforts. See our "Wish
List" for details. We are grateful to our
donors for support of the renewable
energy program.
Renewable Energy
(General)
A Quick
Introduction to Renewable Energy (perhaps 30 minutes)
Conservation and Efficiency
(General)
This link leads to Renewable Energy pages not directly involving my course (see below)
ENS4300 Renewable Energy Course, Spring 2005 at Florida Tech
This page has been modified for the Spring 2004 semester for use with a different text by Godfrey Boyle, Renewable Energy: Power for a Sustainable Future. The 1996 edition is now out of print but still available from Internet shops. The new second edition will be used in Spring semester of 2005.
This is a major content area for students, instructors, and renewable energy advocates with presentations on many energy topics. I've made this area generally available to the public for teachers to use. The course, of course, consists of much classroom interaction, quizzes, exams, guest speakers, etc., and thus goes well beyond these presentations.
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Solar
Energy This basic presentation introduces solar
energy and its applications
The 2004
Olin Engineering Building PV
Project by Dr. Sharaf-Eldeen
installed a 4800 watt photovoltaic array interconnected to the building
utility power system. There will be energy savings, but it is primarily for an
educational outreach to elementary and high school students.
The Link
Building PV Project by the
2003 Renewable Energy class (ENS4300) students proposed
a 3000 watt photovoltaic array interconnected to the utility grid for energy
savings, but primarily for an educational outreach to elementary and high school
students (PowerPoint
version). This cost of modifying the
roof exceeded the cost of the system, and the FSEC grant of $25,000 was
regretfully declined.
Hydropower An introduction from the course
A demonstration water
wheel was installed June 3,2004 in the Florida Tech Botanical Gardens
Wave and
Tidal Energy An introduction
to the subject
Conventional
Fuels, Resources, and Prices
Hydrogen, an energy carrier (incomplete)
About DMES and its programs
Concept
of a Bandstand Stage for Florida Tech; Direct to the PowerPoint
presentation
Energy
in General
Events -- Featuring Renewable or Sustainable
Energy Fairs
Florida Tech
Local Energy-Related Events
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Changes on this webpage (Sometimes called "New")
Are you interested in renewable energy? Contact fleslie@fit.edu for more information.
Every year, I find a
whole lot of things
that I didn't realize I didn't know last year
This proves that my ignorance grows with time!
Frank Leslie, 2004
(There may be some of my presentation information still at www.duedall.fit.edu/fleslie that has not yet been transferred to my.fit.edu/~fleslie. Thanks to Dr. Duedall for hosting my original webpage on his server.)
my.fit.edu/~fleslie/index.htm started 020128;
updated 050406 by FRL; a
lower page updated 050329 or later
