All Activities
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Generator Installation
Explore how to use battery-stored backup power, solar power, wind power, and fuel cells during an emergency.
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Budget Net Meter
Net metering (or net energy metering, NEM) allows consumers who generate some or all of their own electricity to use that electricity anytime, instead of when it is generated.
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Safely Wire for Electricity
The sun, wind, tides and waves cannot be controlled to provide directly either continuous dispatchable power to meet base-load demand, or peak-load power when it is needed, so how can other, dispatchable sources be operated so as to complement them?
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Determining Generator Voltage
Depending upon the type, all alternative power generators convert a renewable energy source, such as wind, moving water, biomass, or sunlight into mechanical energy or electricity.
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Measuring Flow for Hydropower Site
To see if a micro hydropower system would work for you, you will want to determine the amount of power that you can obtain from the flowing water on your site.
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Measuring Wind
An anemometer looks like a weather vane, but instead of measuring which direction the wind is blowing with pointers, it has four cups so that it can more accurately measure wind speed.
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Size and Angle Roof for Solar Panels
There are many factors that affect the performance of your solar energy system, including how sunny it is where you live, which way your house faces, and even the pitch of your roof.
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Prevention Instead of Treatment copy
Waste Prevention should be at the core of every green engineering project. Learn best practices and the many tools available to engineers and chemists to reduce the amount of waste that is formed in a process.
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Minimize Material Diversity
Diversity becomes an issue when considering end of-useful-life decisions. Learn about options for final disposition that are increased through up-front designs that minimize material diversity yet accomplish the needed functions.
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Prevention Instead of Treatment
Waste Prevention should be at the core of every green engineering project. Learn best practices and the many tools available to engineers and chemists to reduce the amount of waste that is formed in a process.
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Wind Turbines
Wind turbines work the opposite of a fan. Instead of using electricity to make wind—like a fan—wind turbines use the wind to make electricity. Learn how to leverage this power from your own backyard.
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Integrate Material and Energy Flows
The design of products, processes, and systems must include integration and interconnectivity with available energy materials and flows. Learn how to integration mass and energy into your project design.
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Meet Need, Minimize Excess
Green engineering approaches the design of products and processes by applying financially and technologically feasible principles. Learn how to apply these principles to your design.
