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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

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/

Genesis Mission Homepage

Details of the Genesis mission which collected samples from the solar wind in order to study the sun.

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http://genesismission.jpl.nasa.gov/
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Van Allen Belts

An explanation of the two huge doughnut-shaped rings, called Van Allen Belts, containing charged particles collected from the solar wind. Also includes a little on the history of their discovery.

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http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/solar/solwin.html#c2

Space Weather Center

Thought the weather was weird on Earth? This site will introduce you to space weather, featuring plasmas, stars, solar wind , the magnetosphere and much more.

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http://www.spaceweathercenter.org/

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/

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
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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/

How Solar Sails Work

A brief description of how Solar Sails work and solar spacecraft design This site is part of Marshall Brain's HowStuffWorks.com.

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http://www.howstuffworks.com/solarsail.htm
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