Mark Hayward Is My Hero » solar

Super-Secret Solar Fan Project Finally Revealed!

mark — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 04:33:13 +0000

Check out one of my latest obsessions:

Clouds….

mark — Tue, 16 May 2006 06:37:11 +0000

It has now been cloudy for basically a week straight. Today I had to resort to battery power to try to work on my new solar widget. Tomorrow off to the hobby shop to try to get the last part.

Not Today

mark — Thu, 11 May 2006 21:31:51 +0000

Cloudy days are not a good time to try to make something with solar panels.

Making Gizmos

mark — Wed, 10 May 2006 02:22:44 +0000

I am in Chicago for the next few days staying with my friends Harper and Matiss. Tomorrow is day two performing at Math Bowl 2006 down in Chicago Heights, and after that Harper and I are going to go to American Science and Surplus to buy parts to make new gizmos! It’s been too long since I have made anything cool, and my focus at the moment is solar power. I have a new project and I want to make some cool little gadgets that relate to it. With luck I’ll find just the right parts and be able to make a really cute little gizmo. I’ll post more details once I have had a chance to work on it.

Secret project revealed!

mark — Wed, 03 May 2006 20:08:44 +0000

Although it is still in the beginning stages, the time has come to reveal my new big secret project.

RenewNews.com

It’s a site on renewable energy. The intention is for it to be a community where people can find all of the information that they need about solar, wind power, biodiesel, firewood etc. At some point we are going to run out of oil, and every night the national news has a story on the high price of gas and/or our dependency on oil from around the world. I think the time has finally come when more people than just the hippies and the big-thinkers are interested in renewable energy. We’ll see how it goes.

I’ve been working for the last week getting RenewNews.com installed and working the way I want it to. I have so much more respect for computer people now. It’s really hard to get a lot of this stuff working! I have resources like Harper and Dylan who have more knowledge than I do, and I have access to the inner working of several websites that Harper and I work on together, and it was still hard for me to get this together. I’m working on a graphic for the top, and a few other things, but the site is up and running now. The community aspect will expand as time goes by, but for the moment we will have a few contributors writing articles that people can comment on if they want.