Solar Energy

• Video of Total Solar Eclipse: http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr161/lect/time/eclips94.mpg
• Solar System: http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/billa/tnp/nineplanets.html
• Solar Environment Center (Pictures of the Sun today!): http://www.sec.NOAA.gov/
• Sunspots, Solar cycles and Sun videos: http://www.sunspotcycle.com/
• activities related to the Sun: http://www.lmsal.com/YPOP/Classroom/
• NASA SOHO sattelite web site: http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/
• Stanford Solar Center: http://solar-center.stanford.edu/

• Solar energy tutorial (solar physics, thermal energy, photovoltaics) - CREST: http://solstice.crest.org/renewables/re-kiosk/solar/index.shtml
• Australian Academy of Science Intro to Solar Energy: http://www.science.org.au/nova/005/005key.htm
• solar concetrators: NREL+Sandia: http://www.eren.doe.gov/sunlab/TechOverview.htm

Solar energy in homes and businesses

• solar home: http://solstice.crest.org/renewables/wlord/solarhouse.html
• Schools Going Solar: http://www.ttcorp.com/upvg/schools/index.htm
• Solar Utilities Network (energy science in the home): Energy audit forms, lightbulb calculator, http://www.solarnet.org/
• Solar Buildings (good introductory material): http://www.eren.doe.gov/solarbuildings/
• Florida Solar (good general information): http://www.flasolar.com/
• Tour the Humboldt State University Campus Center for Appropriate Technology: http://sorrel.humboldt.edu/~ccat/
• Catalog of Solar Heat systems: http://solstice.crest.org//renewables/seia_slrthrm/index.html
• Solar Home Design Guide: http://www.epsea.org/design.html

Environmental education

• Second Nature (environmental education): http://www.2nature.org/
• EPA: Green Web of Knowledge: http://www.epa.gov/glnpo/ala/index.html
• global warming (EPA): http://www.epa.gov/globalwarming/

Photovoltaics

• photovoltaic economics calculator: http://www.infinitepower.com/pv.html
• photovoltaics - including an animation: http://www.eren.doe.gov/pv/
• CREST photovoltaics pages (theory and applications): http://solstice.crest.org/renewables/re-kiosk/solar/pv/index.shtml

General Information

• UNITS, UNITS, UNITS - How to convert them : http://www.infinitepower.com/watts.html
• UCCS energy converter: http://www.uccs.edu/~energy/courses/energyconv.html
• Energy fact sheets on many topics - downloadable: http://www.infinitepower.com/fsindex.html
• CALCULATOR tutorials: http://www.uccs.edu/~energy/courses/calculator.html

Solar Energy Organizations

• Australian and New Zealand Solar Energy Society: (see link to "Why Solar?") http://eureka.arch.unsw.edu.au/faculty/arch/solarch/anzses/anzses.htm
• International Solar Energy Society: http://www.ises.org/
• Texas Solar Energy Society (fact sheets, newsletter): http://www.txses.org/
• El Paso Solar Energy Association (good introductory information): http://www.epsea.org/
• California Energy Commission (solar energy pages): http://www.energy.ca.gov/development/solar/index.html
• DOE National Center for Photovoltaics: http://www.nrel.gov/ncpv/
• Solar Energy International: http://www.solarenergy.org/
• Solar Dome: http://www.solardome.com/