Solary Energy Projects for the Evil Genius - 50 Projects by GAVIN D. J. HARPER
IntroductionThere are always a lot of thank-yous to be said with
any book, and this one is no exception. There are a
lot of people that I would like to thank immensely
for material, inspiration, ideas, and help—all of
which have fed in to make this book what it is.
First of all, a tremendous thank-you to the staff
and students of the MSc. Architecture: Advanced
Environmental & Energy Studies course at the
Centre for Alternative Technology, U.K. I never
cease to be amazed by the enthusiasm, passion,
and excitement members of the course exude.
I’d like to say a big thank-you to Dr. Greg P.
Smestad, for his help and advice on photochemical
cells. Dr. Smestad has taken leading-edge research,
straight from the lab, and turned it into an accessible
experiment that can be enjoyed by young scientists
of all ages. I would also like to thank Alan
Brown at the NASA Dryden Flight Research
Center for the information he provided on solar
flight for Chapter 15.
Also a big thank-you to Ben Robinson and the
guys at Dulas Ltd. for their help in procuring
images, and for setting a great example by showing
how companies can be sustainable and ethical.
I’d also like to thank Hubert Stierhof for sharing
his ideas about solar Stirling engines, and Jamil
Shariff for his advice on Stirling engines and for
continuing to be inspirational.
Thanks also to Tim Godwin and Oliver
Sylvester-Bradley at SolarCentury, and to Andrew
Harris at Schuco for sharing with me some of their
solar installations.
An immense thank-you to Dave and Cheryl
Hrynkiw and Rebecca Bouwseman at Solarbotics
for sharing their insight on little solar-powered
critters, and for providing the coupon in the back
of the book so that you can enjoy some of their
merchandise for a little less.
A massive thank-you to Kay Larson, Quinn
Larson, Matt Flood, and Jason Burch at
Fuelcellstore.com for helping me find my way
with fuel cells, and for being inspirational and letting
me experiment with their equipment. It would
also be wrong not to mention H2 the cat, who was
terrific company throughout the process of learning
about fuel cells.
Also, many thanks to Annie Nelson, and Bob
and Kelly King of Pacific Biodiesel for providing
me with some amazing opportunities to learn about
biodiesel.
Thanks to Michael Welch at Home Power
magazine, and also to Jaroslav Vanek, Mark
“Moth” Green, and Steven Vanek, the designers of
the fantastic solar ice-maker featured in Chapter 5.
Their solar-powered ice-maker has already proven
its immense worth in the developing world … and
if you guys at home start building them at home
and switching off your air-con and freezers, they
stand to be a big hit in the developed world as well.
A big thank-you to my grandfather, who has
seen the mess upstairs and manages to tolerate it,
to my grandmother who hears about the mess
upstairs and does not realize its magnitude, and to
Ella who does a good job of keeping the mess
within sensible limits—and knows when to keep
quiet about it. Thanks are also long overdue to my
dad, who is always immensely helpful in providing
practical advice when it comes to how to build
things, and to my mum who manages to keep life
going when I have got my head in a laptop.
A huge thank-you to Judy Bass, my fantastic
editor in New York who has been great throughout
the trials and tribulations of bringing this book to
print, and to the tremendous Andy Baxter (and the
rest of his team at Keyword) who has managed to
stay cool as a cucumber and provide constant reassurance
throughout the editing process.
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