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Re: Learn how a heliostat behaves and other green tech stuff at www.green-life-innovators.org

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From: Martin Clark
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 21:01
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GreenLifeInnovators <post@green-life-innovators.org> wrote in 
news:0929e3b6-b96f-4998-ab81-e4a0ecfe84e4@v39g2000pro.googlegroups.com:

> A heliostat is a device that tracks the sun's movement in the sky.
> When such a device is set up to reflect the ligt to a fixed point in
> space, it moves in a way which  is surprising and not intuitive. We
> invite you to come and learn how at the web site of the online
> community Green Life Innovators � "Green Tech the Open Source way"
> You will find our wiki pages for the heliostat control system on:
> http://www.green-life-innovators.org/tiki-index.php?page=Sunalign
> 
> [snip]

Looks like there may be some problems with the QBasic calculator. Seems to 
produce wrong results for southern hemisphere.
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From: Martin Clark <troppo19@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: aus.environment.misc
Subject: Re: Learn how a heliostat behaves and other green tech stuff at  www.green-life-innovators.org
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