from the Dollar Meeting

Very interesting Meeting in Scotland!! The students were happy, the scottish young students interested and well prepared and very nice; experience very meaningfull.

Seasonal comparition of the italian date (W)

Hello, all.
Have a look at the videos I have uploaded. They will be linked to from the CORE website.

Spring Equinox PV Data Gathering from Italy

CORE Europe website

Please have a look at the new coreeurope website which is now up and running. 
Unfortunately, it will not be possible for you to upload your own material but I am happy to work with you all and upload anything you wish to your pages.  Too big a risk for us to overwrite eachothers work.

It would be really good if you could send me some text to put on your own front page (see scottish frontpage).   I have put some ideas on the Italian website but these can be edited or removed if you wish. 

We suggest that each country should
Create own main page with details of their countries policies on renewable energy
Have a menu tab for the visit carried out in your country and send us some text / pictures and links to any relevant videos for that page.

Also perhaps have a tab for each form of renewable energy and information for those pages as relevant to your country.  pictures and text and video links and any work your pupils have done.

Suggestions welcome

Susanne and Lucy

Italy Winter Solstice PV data gathering

Dear all,

these are the data of the photovoltaic panel in December

we propose to collect data on a monthly basis,
possibly the 21th days of the month, or within the last ten days of the month, weather permitting.
Emilie: I'll send you the data in Excel format so you can tabulate
together with other.

Ciao a tutti Fabio e Stefano

Comenius Buc Summit November 2011

Comenius Buc Summit November 2011

Day reports by the German pupils

Der 1. Tag

At half past eight we (Adrian, Timo, Patrick and I) met us at the train station in Fellbach, to drive with the train to the airport Stuttgart. After 45 minutes we arrived there, and met Mr. Eberlen and Mrs. Hammer. Then we registered our luggage and search our gate to fly to Paris. At eleven o’clock we took our flight to Paris. After one hour flight time we landed secure in Paris. At the airport we wait for the Scottish students and their teacher. Now some teachers took a rent car to bring there luggage in the hotel with some students. Then we took the underground to go to the downtown of Paris. Arrived in the downtown we waited for the Italians. After a while we met them. Some of us took a little lunch at the McDonalds. When they finished their lunch, we made two groups of students with teachers. One group live in Paris with their guest students, the other group live in suburbs of Paris. The group which live in the suburbs took after a long tour through Paris the bus to Buc, where we met our exchange partners. After the meeting everybody went to the homes of the exchange partners. That was the first day in Paris.       

Nicolas Bosch           

Der 2. Tag (Besuch OECD)

Am zweiten Tag trafen wir uns morgens am deutsch-französischem Internat in Buc. Dort gab es dann den Vormittag über unterschiedliche Präsentationen  unserer französischen Austauschpartner. Thematisiert wurden zum einen die verschiedenen Arten der regenerativen Energiegewinnung und zum anderen mehrere Vergleiche der politisch-wirtschaftlichen Entwicklungsfortschritte in den einzelnen Ländern. Hierbei hörten wir sowohl schon bekanntes, als auch ganz neue Informationen, welche sehr interessant waren.

Nachdem die Präsentationen beendet und wir mit Essen fertig waren, begaben wir uns auf die Reise zur OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) in Paris. Bei der OECD bekamen wir dann zunächst einen Vortrag über die Aufgaben und Handlungsgebiete der Organisation, welche vor allem eine passive, beratende Rolle hat. Den Mitgliedsländern gibt es die Möglichkeit sich über die globale langfristige Entwicklung beraten zu lassen, um sich diesen anzupassen oder entgegen zu wirken. Außerdem sieht die OECD für sich die Aufgabe wirtschaftliche Statistiken und Studien der verschiedenen Länder auf einen Level zubringen, sodass diese vergleichbar sind.

Danach gab es eine zweite Präsentation bei der die Organisation am Beispiel von Bioskraftstoff mit regenerativen Energien in Verbindung gebracht wurde. Leider war diese etwas kurz gehalten, weshalb die Einblicke nicht ganz so tief waren. Alles in allem war aber auch dieser Besuch sehr informativ und eine gute Erfahrung.

Zuletzt fuhren wir dann wieder mit der Bahn zu unseren Austauschpartnern nach Hause.

Adrian Schäfer

Am heutigen Tag dem 10. November.2011 treffen wir uns morgens in der Schule, um das Geothermiekraftwerk SEMHACH in Chevilly-Larue anzuschauen. Die Reise wird im Bus angetreten und dauert ca. eine halbe Stunde. Dort angekommen werden wir in zwei Gruppen aufgeteilt. Die erste Gruppe darf sich eine Präsentation eines Mitarbeiters anhören, die von Herr Eberlen auf Englisch übersetzt wird. Anschließend geht die Gruppe die sich die Präsentation anhören durfte zur Besichtigung der Anlage. Nachdem diese abgeschlossen war, treten wir die Rückreise an. In der Schule angekommen, gibt es zur Kräftigung erst einmal Mittagessen. Die Deutschen Schüler Adrian, Timo und Patrick kümmern sich um ihr Projekt den Blimp und bereiten die Präsentation vor. Als nun alle wieder versammelt waren, wurde der Blimp das erste Mal anderen Schulen vorgestellt. Nach der Präsentation gab es noch einige kritische Fragen von Schülern von anderen Schulen. Nachdem diese geklärt waren, gingen die Schüler in verschiedene Gruppen, um Dokumente zu erstellen oder wie im Fall der Deutschen Schüler an ihrem Projekt weiter zu arbeiten. Zum Abschluss des Tages stellten dann noch die schottischen Schüler ihre Website vor. 

Tag 4

Am vierten Tag, der ein freier Tag in den Familien war, waren wir vier, Adrian, Nicolas, Patrick und Timo mit unseren Austauschpartnern in Paris. Wir haben dort die ganz normale „Touristenrunde“ gemacht, also Notre-Dame, Louvre, Place de la Concorde, Champs Elysées, Arc de Triomphe und schließlich noch den obligatorischen Eiffelturm.

Tag 5

Am fünften Tag sind wir abgereist.

Wir trafen unsere Lehrer am Hotel Cheval Rouge, von woaus wir dann mit dem Aute zum Flughafen Charles de Gaulle gefahren sind.

Nach 2,5 Stunden des Wartens, die wir unter anderem mit Wettessen ausgefüllt haben, ging dann der Flug mit Air France zurück nach Deutschland, wo wir eine Stunde später Planmäßig ankamen.

Dort endete dann auch die Parisexkursion.

PV Data Next Date for Data Collection

Dear all,
just wondering on what dates we will collect our winter PV data ?

Our suggestion is that we collect data for the week commencing the 12th December.

Susanne and Lucy

PV Data Dollar - October

PV Data Dollar - July

Fellbach data summer 2011

Data collected in June 2011

Question

What is this? - Qu'est-ce que c'est? - Was ist das? - ¿Qué es esto?


Please tell us your answer...


Fabio & Stefano

 Solution: these are sliding contacts that allow the complete rotation of the turbine

but...the crazy italian wind...

and...

and...

definitly crashed wind-turbine

So, the Italian team raised the white flag!

PV DATA GATHERED

Hello, here is the data of the photovoltaic panel found Sept. 23 in Italy. Us
expect to see data from other locations to begin the first comparisons. Hello and good luck to all, Fabio and Stefano

first results from France

Hi everybody,

I didn't have time to group together and to analyze all our measures of June but here is a part of our results ... these are our recordings from June 23rd afternoon to July 1st morning.


We recorded a data (V and P) every 30 minutes and then used the software Datastudio to calculate 2*A*V and show this graph. Orientation : S, tilt 20°.
I will try to put our data in a table in a shared googledocument that every school can fill in.
We will stop the recording tomorrow because our school will close from the 8 of July to the last week of August.
Have a nice summer and happy holidays,
Emilie and all the french team

PV DATA GATHERED

Hi everybody,

dear colleagues, here are the first data collected from the photovoltaic panel with Genitrini's circuit. Thath day the weather was perfectly clear. The data were collected with multimeters that you have seen in Italy during the last meeting.

Happy holydays.

Fabio & Stefano

WEB Site

some days ago lucy wrote:

Susanne and I were a bit surprised to learn that we will not be making a website for dissemination of our results as planned in our application. We can get some pupils to construct a website on which we could all place links and data ( for example, photos of tours of various sites, data from the turbines and solar panels, with comparative graphs summarising the information from the different schools, links to videos on youtube, etc). this would be a ‘click on’ map of Europe with a page for each of the sites visited.   We would pay for the hosting of the website out of Comenius funds. As I said, we will try to get some pupils to set this up in June, so it will not involve any extra work for any of your schools, simply a transfer of files to the site…

We hope you agree that this should be done in order to fulfil our contractual obligations.  We have also said in the application that there will be a Moodle course on renewable energy , is this going ahead or not?  I know that we  don’t have to do everything we planned but we must do some of it and the website would be a lovely visual resource which could be accessed via each school’s website and via the Socrates/Comenius website…"

It's an important question, I would like explain the situation:

1 - In Germany we agreed that Emilie and Susanne had to talk about the way to build a web site; during the meeting in Italy Emilie said that there were not contacts about this point between them.

2 - Rosemary and Karen did'nt tell us anything about the planned website in Scotland

after these considerations, and considering time and the activities to do: 

3 - Everybody agreed that the blog seems to be a good instrument and with youtube could be enought for "contractual obligations"

4 - at the end we recognized that every school could create some pages in the school website (if possible) and Blog will be linked with them.

Of course we can change, but, in my opinion we could concentrate on the results and the activities about the energy; of course we can collaborate with a scottish site with materials and photos ....

Stefano 

Two new videos

Two new videos on youtube channel: the meeting in Badia and the french one (finally pubblic)

electric circuit for the solarpanel

Hello everybody,
after our VERY NICE meeting in Badia, we had to solve the problem of measuring the power produced by the solar panel (which can maximal be 20 W). Its tension can rise until 20 V and our datalogger Xplorer GLX cannot measure beyond 10V.
Marie finally bought two resistances (10 Ohms, 25 Watts) that we put in series like this :

This way, V stays always under 10V and the currentintensity stays under 1 A, so our GLX stay happy !!!
And we get P by mulitplying 2 x volts x amperes.
If you want to see the result ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0M65fpljiXk
à bientôt,

Emilie

Meeting in Badia 18th - 22nd may 2011

A BIG THANKS TO ALL GUESTS THAT MADE THE MEETING VERY..... SOLAR
Stefano, Fabio, Leonardo, Carlo and Giovanni

Accident on the way (2)

The broken "airplan" is now adjusted!!!

we changed some parts of the generator and we put it on the top of Totem. we did'nt make electrical connection yet. Here some photos of the results.
Fabio and Stefano