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Origin of life on Earth

Wagentje van Stratingh's electrical carriage

Made in 1835

 

Please find bellow pictures of some of the solar energy projects implemented by or for students of all ages. As the solar energy industry matures, it is more and more imperative to reach out for young talent, to educate and train in photovoltaics. This web page is an invitation to participate in our solar projects.

 

Four grown ups, including my sun and me spent a few days building this contraption. The "test pilots" got bored with it in less than one hour.

 

After the 1973 oil crisis, Japanese companies started manufacturing automobiles that used less oil to run. An entrepreneur from Montreal thought about something else; he took a Pinto frame, install a DC motor, six heavy lead acid batteries, a crude current limiting resistor bank and, voi-la, hire was the "Marathon" electric car. It was road worthy. However, it was built like a tank and run like a fork lift. In 1995, we clean the rust, installed a 600 Wp solar array and we had a solar car. At stop lights, when everybody else was idling, polluting, we just stay there. On a sunny day I could go to work-six miles away- and never have to recharge the batteries from an outlet. The solar panels did it. The car is now, once more rusty, behind our museum.

 

The Ecole Polytechnique team on our campus making and testing their solar array.

 

McMaster university solar car in the news. The solar modules are made by Canrom, located on the same campus with Niagara Science museum.

An extraordinary experience; a group of seven students from Ecole de Technology Superior in Montreal, spent one week on our campus building a $ 30,000 array for their solar car.

My first solar system. It was so silly.

 

Turabo "kids" with their solar car in Australia. The very expensive solar array was built by our "partner" Canrom.

Our Pledge:

I consider myself a pioneer of solar energy, a veteran in solar module development. At the twilight of my life, I still wish to contribute in any way I can to the advancement of solar industry. I feel that involving young, talented youth to start early in their life with their involvement in science projects is important. With this in mind my colleagues and I will do anything we can to support and guide any young person interested in pursuing science projects together with us.