Wind Farm Animation (Hau Nui Wind Farm)

Click on the above screenshot to view the interactive wind farm animation. (The animation attempts to recreate a partial view of the Hau Nui wind farm in New Zealand’s Wairarapa district as seen from the access road.) To find out more about this wind farm and how wind farms are planned and the optimal sites [...]

Carbon dioxide Emissions Visualiser

To visualise greenhouse gas emissions please check out my ‘emissions visualiser’ , created using Adobe Flash CS4. View animation by clicking link above. Best explored in full screen mode. Update: The original flash file had disappeared from the megawsf free hosting site so I am uploading it again on swfcabin. This flash file still has [...]

Hau Nui Wind Farm Visit

Friday November 27th 2009- It was a perfect day for a visit to the big turbines- sunny, mild and windy with a building nor’ wester. I had flown down to Wellington on the 7:00 am flight and was picked up at the airport by wind engineers Simon and Nina from Aurecon (a large consulting firm [...]

Silicon doping in solar cells

Doped Silicon: This basic flash file I made illustrates how solar cells are made by adding tiny impurities of Gp III and GP V elements to silicon (GP IV element). [Use the keys at the bottom to navigate] The results in an electric field being formed across the p-n junction. Without the built-in electric field [...]

Model Pelton Wheel Hydroelectric Generator

In an earlier post I outlined an educational activity building a water-powered turbine (Pelton Wheel style) with milk bottle tops and plastic spoons. This was successfully trialled at the first Schoolgen Sister Schools Cluster Day in Spetember. Making the turbine (a linear to rotational kinetic energy converter) was the first stage in the creation of a working model of [...]

Poster

Here is the poster! I eventually made it using Microsoft Publisher after initially doing the design on Adobe Flash. However the available resolution at A1 size wasnt high enough for printing so had to redo it. Adobe InDesign would probably be good if I had it. A full resolution (A1, 300 dpi, pdf) version can [...]

Where I am at.

It has been too long since I have updated my blog. I have been so busy with my project and at work that I have neglected it. However I havent been idle! After preparing and presenting 5 talks on “Photovoltaics: Powering the future” (Genesis Energy Greenlane, Huntly, Hamilton, and two talks to schools) I was straight into [...]