The Physics of Renewable Energy

These pages present a brief overview of the physics laws and principles that apply to the various forms of renewable energy generation which I researched during my RSNZ Fellowship year in 2009. this was to be the content of a Adobe Flash program I was creating but time ran out (and I lost my software), [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Schoolgen Cluster Day- Energy Efficient Buildings

The students were given an optional lunchtime activity where they used a mindmap I created showing some  essential elements of an energy efficient “eco friendly” building.  Using glossy fliers from  building suppliers they had to find and cut out one picture relating to that aspect of the mind map and/or write a short sentence describing it. This was [...]

After doing my blog posts on my google site for the year to date, I have realised that this is more setup for creating web pages. The google site does not seem to allow tags and categories for posts, and as far as I know you cant do RSS feeds either. I have copied posts from the last few [...]