| Vashon
Energy Project
Alternative
energy for life
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The Vashon
Energy Project will demonstrate new solar heating technologies and
service innovations for affordable earth-friendly habitation, non-polluting
energy sources, and improvements in organic food production (e.g., solar
heated, year-round greenhouses) suitable for Vashon-Maury Island and beyond
that experience seasonal limitations to solar exposure. Our initial
installation will be Project Solar
Harvest.
Robert
Bornn, Executive Director
Laura
Worth, Communications Director
Advisory Board
| Nature-integrated Solar
Energy System: Optical Collection, Storage, and Retrieval of Passive
Annual Solar Energy
This invention
by Robert Bornn is the basis for Project
Solar Harvest, our first educational demonstration project that will
collect, store, and use solar energy for heat on Vashon-Maury Island.
The invention utilizes a unique optical or other “front end” which collects
and transmits solar radiation into a thermal storage mass. When retrieved
this heat can be used directly for heating water and interior spaces.
The invention's goal is to make solar power more affordable. It's
physical configuration could achieve more affordable and nature-integrated
aesthetics than conventional solar technology.
This invention
is inspired by successful practical advances in Europe, Japan, and Canada
in neighborhood and large-scale storage of summer solar heat in the ground
for
winter use.
If you have
engineering, technical, scientific, or architectural expertise in related
areas we would like to explore collaborating with you on this pilot project.
We can send you a library of related background links. Please contact
us. |
Moonlight on
Quartermaster Harbor
Vashon Island,
Washington
Photo by R.
Bornn
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Background Links
Successful,
High-Temperature, Underground,
Thermal
Energy Storage (HT-UTES) at High Latitudes
1 International
Energy Agency- Energy Conservation through Energy Storage (IEA-ECES)
2 Drake's
Landing Solar Community
3 Alternative
Energy Information
4 Index
to Seasonal Thermal Energy Storage Newsletters (Archive 1978-1993)
5 ASME:
Journal of Solar Energy Engineering
6 Trends
in Japan: Novel Energy Storage Systems
7 Solar
Engineering Savings Calculations
8 University
of Wisconsin, Madison, College of Engineering, Information re Concentrating
Solar Collector
9 University
of Ontario, Engineering and Applied Sciences, "Thermal Energy Background"
10 Solar
District Heating with a Combined Pit and Duct Storage in the Underground
Year-round
Solar Greenhouses
Imagine fresh
produce grown locally on Vashon-Maury Island in solar greenhouses
that can collect,
store, and use solar-heating year-round.
Background Links
11 Solar
Greenhouse Horticulture Resources
(Vashon
Energy Project is a project of LifeSense Institute, a nonprofit corporation)
YOUR SUPPORT
We are actively
seeking participants and donors for the Vashon
Energy Project. In-kind-donations (services, materials, and
equipment) are welcome. We anticipate collaboration with a network
of local and worldwide professionals with expertise in relevant fields.
We are forming a dynanmic advisory board to optimize our projects. If
you have interest, please
contact us to join our
mailing list, learn of sponsored informational events, and programs and
activitites.
