The Texas Interactive Power Simulator

The Texas Interactive Power Simulator (TIPS) is a tool that compares the economic and environmental tradeoffs of electricity generation methods. It allows its users to effectively compare the tradeoffs in electricity generation methods by designing their own generation scenario for the state of Texas. For more information please visit: www.webberenergygroup.com ------ Michael E. Webber, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering Associate Director, Center for International Energy & Environmental Policy Co-Director, Clean Energy Incubator
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These interlocking Montessori-style Sustainable Environment K-12 Education Lessons, plus 3 interviews with globally influential holistic health, hydrogen engineering, and solar cooker pioneers, are designed to save lives and to save the environment of our planet. The scope of the lessons covers our common basic human needs for organic food, clean water, renewable energy, and affordable solar adobe housing, all produced on an individual household scale. They emphasize simple, inexpensive, low-tech, and labor intensive, and completely hands-on solutions to increasingly serious global problems, while emphasizing the hopeful and joyful education of children. The lessons help build holistic health, character development, interdependent cooperation, higher order systems thinking, and a sense of global responsibility. These lessons may appear deceptively simple, but all used together as a whole, they show how to save lives on our planet, by doing more with less while always using Nature as a model. Amazingly, these lessons are entirely student planned, built, filmed and edited. They are not slick or professional, but they are full of love and sincerity. Songs and charts are used to sum up principles. Level One contains lessons on organic gardening, composting, harvesting, seed collection, simple medicinal herbs, small animal husbandry, natural water purification, solar water purification, and solar cooking. Level Two contains lessons on greenhouse construction, household scale ...
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