Links

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You can visit the following links to learn more about solar thermal technologies, tax breaks, tax incentives and the world of green efficiencies.

Climate Change

California Energy Commission http://www.climatechange.ca.gov/biennial_reports/ 2006report/index.html
(Climate change impacts on California)

Pew Center on Global Climate Change http://www.pewclimate.org/


Evacuated Tube Collectors

U.S. Department of Energy
www.eere.energy.gov/solar/sh_basics_collectors.html

The Solarserver Forum
www.solarserver.de/wissen/sonnenkollektoren-e.html

More about Solar Technologies

American Solar Energy Society
http://www.ases.org/

Solar Energy Industries Association
http://www.seia.org/

Absorption Cooling

U.S. Department of Energy http://www.eere.energy.gov/consumer/your_home/space _heating_cooling/index.cfm/mytopic=12450

Energy Solutions Center http://www.energysolutionscenter.org/resources/ PDFs/GT_W03_Small_Absorption_Chillers.pdf

Century Corporation http://www.century.co.kr:8080/product/simulation.html (Flash demo of absorption chiller operation)

State Tax Incentives

Solar Energy Industries Association of California http://www.calseia.org/

Solar Thermal Cooling (European Market)

International Energy Agency
http://www.iea-shc.org/task38/index.html

The Climasol Project
http://raee.org/climatisationsolaire/gb/documents.htm

Fraunhofer Institure
http://lmora.free.fr/task38/pdf/matin/Henning.pdf

Federal Tax Incentives

Solar Energy Industries Association
http://www.seia.org/taxmanualdownload.php