Monday August 4, 2008 10AM-11AM SLT
Wind with Windy Schor
Tuesday August 5, 2008 2PM-3PM SLT
Wednesday August 13, 2008 9AM-10AM SLT
About Solar Cooking Discussion:
Join Solar Sierra, a physics teacher and president of RL nonprofit EnergyTeachers.org, in a demonstration and discussion of the sun in SL and RL, and how to use it to cook. Each participant walks away with a realistic model of a solar cooker, good contacts in SL and RL for research, and the knowledge and understanding of the science and technology involved in cooking with the light of the sun.
About Wind Discussion:
The wind flowing through Second Life sims is based on computational fluid dynamics. It blows on-shore and off-shore, away from the sun, and is affected by parcels of air in neighboring sims.
Windy has built several interactive, dynamic objects that can be used in SL and in RL situations to learn about wind and wind power. She has built a web-connected anemometer that reads SL wind speed and direction, uploads the information periodically to a database on the internet, and provides data for classroom use or for mapping winds on a large SL map of a sim. Windy will show how to process the data along with a power curve of a RL turbine to determine how much energy a turbine can produce in a year.
The discussion group will meet near several wind turbines and where an anemometry experiment is underway.
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All four workshops will be held at the East Side Lawn on Etopia Island 224,65,22 (~35 meters east of the TP entrance to Etopia Island).
EnergyTeachers.org is a network of educators interested in energy production and use.
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ETO is a nonprofit corporation founded in Massachusetts, USA. We are a 501(c)(3) public charity.
Etopia Island and Etopia Prime are models of RL sustainable living.
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