Simple Solar Education

Back in the early 1980s I made some 15 second PSAs for the Urban Solar Energy Association [USEA] that were actually shown a couple of times late at night on the local TV stations.

In the early 1990s, I made another set of 30 second PSAs for the Boston Area Solar Energy Association, the successor organization to USEA, but none of them were broadcast as local TV stations all had their own approved non-profits to soak up public interest broadcast time requirements by then.  Or so I was told.  At the same time, I was producing the monthly lectures of the Solar Association and putting them on local cable access.

In the last decade or two I’ve put my share of solar video online at Youtube.  You can see them at http://youtube.com/user/gmoke

So I’ve been dabbling in solar video for a long time.   But not for a long time.  These are relics of what I’ve thought and done with simple solar throughout my life.

The presentation may be amateurish at best but I believe the majority of the information and ideas is accurate although I may have made some mistakes in the details here and there.

May these be of use.

One Square Foot of Sunlight  https://youtu.be/LICMvQCOnkg 

Solar History  https://youtu.be/BIGS5LSjlnk

come from the early 1990s and were the 30 second PSAs I was trying to get local TV to broadcast.

Simple Solar Principles  https://youtu.be/6_NN__fS5pM

Recycled Solar  https://youtu.be/KTLBsxI-Xl8
Sixpack of Solar  https://youtu.be/A_UEtfWrf2A

Solar Is Civil Defense  https://youtu.be/u0mjqjgZ64E

Solar/Dynamo  https://youtu.be/0GlbYQhrtXg

Cell Phone Solar  https://youtu.be/ybxbJ53X4kY
Minimum Solar Light  https://youtu.be/m56Lu2o9Wfc

Homefront Advantage - WWII posters   https://youtu.be/FIlQJg1kSvk

A South-facing Window Is Already a Solar Collector  https://youtu.be/FdGAdEq242M

Solar Windowbox Air Heater  https://youtu.be/lTOe2OYSPlw

Insulating Roller Shade  https://youtu.be/jEh9Bq4qQB8

Old Solar:  1980 Barnraised Aolar Air Heater  https://youtu.be/N8SEwJkEwoc
Old Solar:  1990 Boston Area Solar House Tour  https://youtu.be/NkOkFmq6doI

I believe you can provide people with the essential concepts of practical solar energy within a very short period of time and can even present it as a series of short segments like these Youtube videos

Simple Solar parts 1 - 8

is my one attempt at trying to assemble a curriculum that leads from one possibility to another.

At a skill share.  Whatever happened to those?

Part 1.  https://youtu.be/IdPftGMNbEA

Part 2.  https://youtu.be/9541OXjABf8

Part 3.  https://youtu.be/ig7kxZlhIWE

Part 4.  https://youtu.be/lhLmL6VM0hQ

Part 5.  https://youtu.be/e9vEiNvwjnM

Part 6.  https://youtu.be/rq7mZ0xmgL8

Part 7.  https://youtu.be/LVRRkbYp76Y

Part 8.  https://youtu.be/OxRDcqLRWVA

Providential Experimentation   https://youtu.be/wC-uqy2qJH0

Worms, worms, worms  https://youtu.be/iMe9ssId0Bk

expands the concept beyond direct solar energy into secondary sources and regenerative systems leading to full geotherapy.

Simply Questions  https://youtu.be/ehKgs_rFhF8

is an attempt to visualize that system in terms of basic logistics