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Energy Matters

A series of articles on Kinetic Energy, Potential Energy, Relativity, Work, Fossil Fuels, Nuclear, Hydroelectric, Biomass, Wind and Geothermal power. The site uses text and colour illustrations and ...

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http://library.thinkquest.org/20331/

Learning about Renewable Energy

Nice, clear info on renewable energy resources including geothermal, solar, wind and biomass power from the National Renewable Energy Lab.

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http://www.nrel.gov/learning/

Renewable energy

An introduction to the main types of renewable energy, focusing on wind, solar, wave, tidal and waste power.

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http://www.imeche.org/knowledge/themes/energy/energy-supply/renewable-energy/

Wind Power

Have a look inside a wind turbine to see how it generates electricity.

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http://www.energyquest.ca.gov/story/chapter16.html

Wind tunnel

Part of the NASA website, includes detailed information (and illustrations) on the history, development and use of wind tunnels.

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http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/K-12/airplane/tunnel1.html

Wind Tunnel Web pages.

This site is a comprehensive guide to wind tunnels, their history and design. It includes experimental details and designs.

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http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/K-12/airplane/shortt.html

Allstar Network - Making a wind vane

description of a very simple wind vane.

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http://www.allstar.fiu.edu/aero/Experiment11.htm

The Solar wind

A NASA page all about solar wind, including the latest data on the Sun's activity and with lots more information on solar physics.

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http://solarscience.msfc.nasa.gov/SolarWind.shtml
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Airplane In Wind

The cross-country navigation of an aircraft involves the vector addition of relative velocities since the resultant ground speed is the vector sum of the airspeed and the wind speed.

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http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/airpw.html#c1

The Java Virtual Wind Tunnel

The interactive Java Virtual Wind Tunnel is a prototype applet which uses computational fluid dynamics (CFD) methods to simulate the flow of air over a two dimensional object.

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http://raphael.mit.edu:80/Java/
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