It's not just wind turbines we get excited about, below is a few of the other projects we're involved with. If you've got any ideas of projects you'd like to get involved with, contact us.
Bike Generators
The average human can produce about 100W of continuous power. 5 bike genny's can therfor produce as mch as a 2.4m wind turbine. We've tried 2 designs so far. The first involves a hugh piggott alternator, the second re-using an old car alternator. Details of the car altenator design can be found at the
Veg Oil
There's plenty of Chippy's in Nottingham, and as a result quite a lot of waste vegetable oil. Current projects involving this great resource from waste include:
- A basic filtration system
- Making Biodiesel
- Converting cars and stand alone generators to run off veg oil
Solar Water Heating
The average solar energy over the entire earth equals164 Watts per square meter over a 24 hour day. This can even reach about 500W during the day in Britain. Converting this to heat to warm water is a very useful and easy to build renewable energy device. We've run courses on how to build your own Solar Water Heater, following the design from the Centre for Alternative Technology.
