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         Alternative Energy Resources on the Internet
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    Compiled by Christopher Gronbeck <[e-mail]>
 Ctr. for Renewable Energy and Sustainable Technology (CREST)
  A Program of the Solar Energy Research and Education Found.
             Washington, DC  USA   [phone]
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                Last Updated January 7, 1994
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CONTENTS
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{1}  How to Access this Document
{2}  Experts
{3}  UseNet Newsgroups
{4}  Mailing Lists
{5}  File Archives and Databases
{6}  Public Domain Software
{7}  CREST's FTP Site
{8}  About this Document
{9}  Resources Being Explored to Include in Future Releases
{10} About CREST
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(1) HOW TO ACCESS THIS DOCUMENT
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This document is distributed in four ways:
  * Anonymous FTP (see section 7 below)
  * Posted monthly to the Alternative Energy Discussion
    List (see section 4 below)
  * Automailer (soon to be operational) c/o EcoNet (thanks to Tom
    Gray)
  * E-mail request to [e-mail] (if nothing else works)
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(2) EXPERTS
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These institutions and individuals are sources of alternative energy
information and have agreed to have their names and contact information
placed here.  If you or your institution would like to be added to this
list please contact Christopher Gronbeck.
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CTR. FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY AND SUSTAINABLE TECHNOLOGY (CREST)
SOLAR ENERGY RESEARCH AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION (SEREF)
CREST is described in section 10 below.
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NATIONAL APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGY ASSISTANCE SERVICE (NATAS)
NATAS provides free e-mail (anywhere) and toll-free telephone (U.S. only)
access to a wealth of experts and resources on a variety of subjects.
Contact: George Everett
E-mail:  [e-mail]
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AMERICAN HYDROGEN ASSOCIATION (AHA)
AHA has technical and policy expertise in all aspects of hydrogen as an
energy carrier.  They will field any question regarding the production,
transportation, and use of hydrogen.
Contact: Rod Gallagher
E-mail:  [e-mail]
Phone:   [phone]
Fax:     [phone]
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ALTERNATIVE FUEL VEHICLES
Steve McCrea of Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, USA says he's "happy to respond
to folks who want more information [on AFVs] and I'd appreciate it if you
let folks know that when they have an electric car, they can contact me
and send me a photo with stories about fun things that have happened with
their vehicle -- and I'll include something in my EV encyclopdia (to be
published in Dec. 1995)."
Contact: Steve McCrea
E-Mail:  [e-mail]
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(3) USENET NEWSGROUPS
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Newsgroups on Internet that are related to alternative energy
include:
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SCI.ENERGY
Technical and policy discussion on all energy-related topics;
moderate-to-high volume (about 30 postings/day).
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SCI.ENERGY.HYDROGEN
A splinter newsgroup of SCI.ENERGY concerning hydrogen issues.
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(4) MAILING LISTS
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*** 4.1 ***
ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
The AE Alternative Energy Discussion Mailing List is intended
to provide a forum to discuss the current state of the art
and future direction of alternative energy sources that are
renewable and sustainable.  It is *not* intended to discuss
either AE appropriateness or comparisons with conventional
energy sources such as fossil or nuclear fuels.  Those
"discussions" are best relegated to the appropriate usenet
newsgroup.
An alternative energy source is taken to include solar, wind,
geothermal, tidal, electro-chemical, hydro-electric, or any
renewable and sustainable energy source.  It is also assumed
to exclude fuels such as fossil and nuclear since these
literally take an act of God to create.
To subscribe to the AE mailing list, e-mail the command:
     subscribe ae <firstname> <lastname>
to the Internet address:
     [e-mail]
or the bitnet address:
     listserv@sjsuvm1
After subscribing, you may enable the digest feature by
sending "set ae digest" to the listserver.  After
subscribing, messages may be sent to the list by sending to:
ae@sjsuvm1 (bitnet) or [e-mail] (InterNet).
The owner of this list is Clyde R. Visser, KD6GWN
<[e-mail]>
*** 4.2 ***
ELECTRIC VEHICLES
The EV Electric Vehicle Discussion Mailing List is intended
to provide a forum to discuss the current state of the art
and future direction of electric vehicles.  It is *not*
intended to discuss either EV appropriateness or comparisons
with other transportation primary drive modes such as the
venerable internal combustion engine.  Those "discussions"
are best relegated to the appropriate usenet newsgroup.  The
EV mailing list currently has over 400 subscribers.
An electric vehicle is any vehicle which uses an electric
motor as the primary or sole motive force.  The energy
storage device used to drive said motor can use any
technology including, but not limited to, solar electric,
electric battery, fuel cell, internal combustion engine
coupled with a electric generator (hybrids), or any
combination of these.
Production electric vehicles are currently available.
Internal combustion engine vehicles can be converted to
electric.  There exist a number of companies who perform this
conversion.  There is also a number of manufacturers of
equipment allowing you to do-it-yourself.
To subscribe to the EV mailing list, e-mail the command:
     subscribe ev <firstname> <lastname>
to the Internet address:
     [e-mail]
or the bitnet address:
     listserv@sjsuvm1
After subscribing, you may enable the digest feature by
sending "set ev digest" to the listserver.  After
subscribing, messages may be sent to the list by sending to:
ev@sjsuvm1 (bitnet) or [e-mail] (InterNet).
The owner of this list is Clyde R. Visser, KD6GWN
<[e-mail]>
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HYDROGEN
To subscribe to the hydrogen mailing list, e-mail the command:
     sub hydrogen <firstname> <lastname>
to the Internet address:
     [e-mail]
The owner of this list is Rob Cinq-Mars <[e-mail]>.
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BIOSPHERE AND ECOLOGY
The BIOSPH-L list covers general environmental issues, including
sustainable lifestyles and economics, practical low-impact consumption,
and activist news. There are crossposts on wind-power and other issues
from other organizations (the Wind Energy Weekly appears on this list as
do occasional reports from institutions such as the Union of Concerned
Scientists).
To subscribe to the biosphere mailing list, e-mail the command:
     subscribe biosph-l <firstname> <lastname>
to the Internet address:
     [e-mail]
The owner of the list is Dave Phillips
<[e-mail]>
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(5) FILE ARCHIVES AND DATABASES
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There are not yet enough of these to justify subsections based on subject
or type of information, but this may change soon...
*** 5.1 ***
CREST FTP SITE
See section 7 below.
FTP:     ftp.digex.net (login: anonymous, cd to /pub/crest)
*** 5.2 ***
AMERICAN HYDROGEN ASSOCIATION (AHA) NEWSLETTERS
AHA has newsletters archived at Arizona State University's gopher server.
They can be accessed by telneting to "info.asu.edu", logging in as "info",
and selecting the following options:
  8.  Arizona State-Wide Information/
    6.  American Hydrogen Association Newsletters (Alternative Energy)/
      1.  Volume 4, Number 1 (1993).
      2.  Volume 4, Number 2 (1993).
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ELECTRIC VEHICLES FAQ
Answers to frequently-asked questions about electric vehicles
that are occasionally posted to the UseNet newsgroup
"sci.energy" are archived at the following site:
FTP:     athene.uni-paderborn.de (login: anonymous, cd to
         /doc/FAQ/sci.energy)
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ENERGY AND CLIMATE INFORMATION EXCHANGE (ECIX) FILES
Sponsored by the Institute for Global Communications (IGC),
ECIX consists of files on a variety of energy- and climate-
related topics including an archive of issues of several
electronic journals.  These files may be ftp'ed or you can
send e-mail requests and they will be mailed to you.
FTP:     192.82.108.1 (login: anonymous, cd to /pub/ECIX or
         /pub/ECIXfiles)
E-Mail:  [e-mail]
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EPA FUTURES GROUP GOPHER
The EPA has a Gopher server that concentrates on population, critical
technologies, energy, agriculture, industry/commerce, environmental
justice, environmental security, and ecology/habitat issues.
Gopher:  futures.wic.epa.gov 70
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SUNSITE (UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA)
UNC maintains an excellent collection of alternative energy fact sheets,
newsletters, and other documents available for anonymous ftp.  A file list
is available in the directory:
    /pub/academic/environment/alternative-energy/miscellaneous
Two lists of Frequently Asked Questions on alternative energy are stored
at SunSite:  Alternative Energy FAQ is stored in the
"Alternative.Energy.FAQ" subdirectory of the directory listed above, and
the Energy Efficiency Software FAQ is stored in the "faqs" subdirectory.
FTP:     sunsite.unc.edu (login: anonymous, cd to
         /pub/academic/environment/alternative-energy)
*** 5.7 ***
WASHINGTON STATE ENERGY OFFICE (WSEO)
ELECTRIC IDEAS CLEARINGHOUSE (EIC)
The Electric Ideas Clearinghouse BBS is managed by the Washington State
Energy Office with funding from the Bonnville Power Administration, the
Western Area Power Administration, and the U.S. Department of Energy.  It
was created to provide information services to utility representatives and
energy professionals in the commercial and industrial sectors in the
Pacific Northwest.  The EICBBS provides a mechanism for fast and easy
information transfer and serves as a central repository of information on
all types of energy efficiency in the commercial and industrial sectors.
EICBBS includes discussion forums on renewable energy, sustainable
building practices, environmental issues, and electric vehicles, as well
as a training calendar, programs database, and jobs/resume listing
service.  Toll-free telephone access is provided for the western United
States, and Internet access is allowed from anywhere in the world 24 hours
a day.
Telnet:  eicbbs.wseo.wa.gov
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ECOGOPHER
EcoGopher is a very large collection of environment-related documents
owned and operated by the Division of Recoverable and Disposable Resources
(DRDR) at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville with System
Administration provided by U.Va.'s Administrative Computing Services
(ACS). managed by the University of Virginia.  It includes many mirrors of
other information sites, most notably ECIX (see section 5.4 above) for
alternative energy information.
A keyword search (the most effective way to browse this resource) on
"renewable", for example, yielded 266 entries including many documents
from ECIX, the Union of Concerned Scientists, and the BIOSPH-L mailing
list (see section 4.4 above).
Contact: [e-mail] (e-mail questions about EcoGopher
         to this address)
Gopher:  ecosys.drdr.virginia.edu
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RICE UNIVERSITY GOPHER SERVER
There are many gopher servers that have environmental information, and
there are random alternative energy files throughout the gopher world
(this document only catalogues archives with several files).  Rice
University's gopher has a comprehensive list of other environmental
gophers, including links to several resources discussed in this guide.
After connecting, select:
     6.  Information by Subject Area/
and then:
     20. Environment and Ecology/
Gopher:   riceinfo.rice.edu
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E-NEWS
E-News is an ftp site with an archive of several alternative
energy-related newsletters including Develop Net News (a monthly
newsletter of Volunteers in Technical Assistance), E-News (Energy News,
an international newsletter on energy efficiency in developing
countries), E-Notes (the quarterly newsletter of the International
Institute for Energy Conservation), ECO GENEVA (a newsletter produced
cooperatively by groups attending the Climate Talks in Geneva), Energy
Ideas (newsletter published by the Government Purchasing Project), Global
Efficiency Monitor (empty directory), Papers (currently consists of one
paper on global warming by Daniel A. Lashof of the Natural Resources
Defense Council), and Wind Energy Weekly (newsletter of the American Wind
Energy Association).
FTP:     164.109.10.5 [cd to the directory
         "/pub1/gopher-data/E-News (Electronic Library)"]
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(6) PUBLIC DOMAIN ENERGY SOFTWARE
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CREST EDUCATIONAL SOFTWARE DEMONSTRATIONS
CREST has created interactive multimedia educational software on renewable
energy and passive solar building design targeting the general public.
The Apple Macintosh-based prototype software is available at no cost for
review and can be obtained from CREST on magneto-optical disks, a large
set of floppy disks (with no digital video), hard disk to hard disk
transfer, or anonymous ftp (no digital video, ftp to usc.edu, cd to
/pub/rslau).  Contact Christopher Gronbeck for more information.
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(7) CREST'S FTP SITE
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CREST maintains an FTP site which contains the following
types of files:
  * Fact sheets about CREST and CREST's projects
  * Fact sheets about projects of other institutions
  * General information sheets about the state-of-the-art of
    renewable energy technologies (under construction)
  * Sample screens from CREST's educational software
    (Macintosh PICT format)
  * Archives of the newsletters of CREST and the TerraMedia
    Collaborative
  * This document
To access the FTP site, follow these directions:
  1) ftp to ftp.digex.net
  2) login as "anonymous"
  3) use your e-mail address as the password
  4) cd to "/pub/crest"
  5) get the file "00index" for a list of files
If you upload a file to the FTP site, put it in the directory
/pub/crest/incoming and send e-mail to [e-mail].
Please do not put files >500kb in size in the archive without
getting prior permission because our space is limited.
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(8) ABOUT THIS DOCUMENT
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*** 8.1 ***
Thanks to:
Lelani Arris          (ECIX, [e-mail])
Carol Briggs-Erickson (U. Michigan, [e-mail])
George Everett        (NCAT, [e-mail])
Rod Gallagher         (AHA, [e-mail])
Tom Gray              ([e-mail])
Steve McCrea          ([e-mail])
Toni Murphy           (U. Michigan, [e-mail])
Rob Penney            (WSEO, [e-mail])
Dave Phillips         ([e-mail])
T.V. Ramachandra      (ces![e-mail])
Rocky Rohwedder       ([e-mail])
Ted Tash              (AHA, tash%eccx.dnet@esu36.
                            ateng.az.Honeywell.COM)
Clyde R. Visser       ([e-mail])
Dan Wendling          ([e-mail])
and anyone else I may have missed who helped review or provide information
for this guide.
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Answer to a frequently-asked question:  Why isn't the guide organized by
subject?  Because there aren't that many resources listed and most do not
focus on specific technologies or applications.  When there are more
resources to list and they target specific topics (such as "wind power"),
it will make sense to index resources by subject.  Your comments on this
are, of course, welcome.  If there is a demand for a subject index, it
will be added.
*** 8.3 ***
Shortcut for finding sections:  To jump to a main section, search for
"(#)", for instance, "(4)".  To jump to a subsection, search for
"* #.# *", for instance, "* 4.2 *".
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Disclaimer:  The quality of information you will receive from these
sources in this document is variable and it is not possible for me to
verify the accuracy of all information referenced here.  I suggest that
you contact as many sources as possible to get a diverse and balanced set
of opinions on a subject.
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(9) RESOURCES BEING EXPLORED TO INCLUDE IN FUTURE RELEASES
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These are resouces I am aware of that may be appropriate to include in
this guide but which I have not been able to contact or about which I
do not have sufficient information.  Your assistance in tracking them
down is much appreciated.
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E-NEWS
Description: Gopher and FTP site with IP address of 143.106.1.5
Status:      ADDED TO THIS GUIDE 1/7/94
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HYDROGEN FAQ
Description: FAQ based on Hydrogen mailing list/sci.energy.hydrogen
Status:      According to Tom Cinq-Mars on 1/2/94, FAQ will be done soon
*** 9.3 ***
FTP.UNI-OLDENBURG.EDU
Description: Newsletters of the International Association of Solar Energy
             Educators in /pub/solar [info from Rocky Rohwedder]
Status:      FTP failed 1/2/94
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(10) ABOUT CREST
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The Center for Renewable Energy and Sustainable Technology (CREST) is a
10,000 square foot educational resource center, hands-on demonstration
laboratory, and training facility opening in Washington, DC in 1994.
CREST focuses on renewable energy, energy efficiency, the environment, and
sustainable development.  One of CREST's primary functions is to explore
and demonstrate the use of advanced information and communication
technologies in these fields.
CREST was created by the Solar Energy Research and Education Foundation, a
Washington-based, tax-exempt non-profit organization.  CREST also works
closely with, and is secretariat of, the TerraMedia Collaborative, an
international coalition of institutions dedicated to producing interactive
multimedia applications for training and education in the fields of energy
and the environment.
CREST has been established to demonstrate renewable energy and energy
efficiency technology at work today and to encourage its use through
hands-on interaction and education.  CREST will target several audiences
including government decision makers, utilities, educators, students, non-
governmental organizations, architects, engineers, and librarians.
CREST takes a three-faceted approach to achieving its mission:
  * On-Site: The Center itself along with affiliated facilities
  * On-Line: Internet-based and other on-line services
  * On-Disc: CD-ROM education and training modules
reached in the most effective and cost-efficient manner
CREST's unique role is to catalyze, monitor, enhance, and publicize the
efforts of other institutions in the fields of focus.  CREST is in
Washington because of the importance of educating decision makers who have
a critical role in energy, environment, and development policymaking.
Contact: Michael Totten, Director
         Christopher Gronbeck, Technical Director
E-mail:  [e-mail] (general information)
         [e-mail]
         [e-mail]
Phone:   [phone] (Michael Totten)
         [phone] (Christopher Gronbeck)
Fax:     [phone]
Address: 777 N. Capitol St., N.E., #805
         Washington, DC  20002   USA
         (address changes 2/94)
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