Test to see if browser knows the width of the test image. The roads on the way to Waunakee, Wisconsin, a town of about 7500 on the outskirts of Madison, gently twist and turn through newly green farmland. It's flat out here and open, the June sun pouring down in great sheets onto the newly opened fields. As the farm fields give way to houses, the grassy bowl of Waunakee Community High School's football field appears, and beyond that, the flat roof of the school itself, soaking up the sun. Designed with Center input, it's a project that's bringing people together to develop a multidisciplinary approach to teaching renewable energy.
Schools have all the linkages with the community and they have visibility.
And they have teachers with ideas. We're going to look at solar energy for cooking, solar energy for running toy cars, solar energy for lots of uses. Energy Cycle training, and the approach he's taking closely parallels KEEP's strategy of integrating energy into existing subject areas. Bower plans to use the PV system to teach students about the seasons. For instance, by comparing the system's power output to the sun's angle above the horizon students can see the relationship between the tilt of the earth and the solar energy it receives.