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In order to bring about global discussion of renewable energy 
and practical home-scale power systems we've recently formed a
newsgroup "alt.energy.renewable". Topics of discussion include
photovoltaics, wind and hydro power, battery systems, inverters
and controls, conservation, EVs and AFVs, solar thermal, OTEC
and related topics. The newsgroup is gated to a related mailing
list and to our three year old conference on Fidonet. It is now
available at many news sites.

An alternative means of participation is via the newsgroup 
almanac or "mailing-list". To subscribe, send an email message
to: almanac@twosocks.ces.ncsu.edu On the very first line of the
body of your message type (lower case) "subscribe renew-energy"
(don't use the quotation marks). Once subscribed, you can post
messages by sending them to "renew-energy@twosocks.ces.ncsu.edu".

All messages posted to the newsgroup will be archived and 
stored at "sunSITE.unc.edu" and are available via gopher, telnet 
or FTP in the directory: "pub/academic/environment/alternative-energy/
energy-resources/ discussion-groups/newsgroups/alt.energy.renewable".
We have also placed back issues of Home Power Magazine there as well
as many other energy related files. The Sunsite archives contain a
wealth of information on many subjects including environmental and
sustainability issues.

The Mission Statement for the newsgroup is as follows:

 The purpose of alt.energy.renewable is to promote the widest possible
 discussion on the subject of Practical Renewable Energy technology,
 it's application and development. The emphasis is on real-world systems
 and technology available now and how people apply and live with it. The
 conference is inspired by Home Power magazine and the practical, hands
 on, gentle on the earth, approach to RE they promote. Some subjects of
 discussion are: solar power, photvoltaics, hydropower, wind power, EVs,
 energy conservation, solar cookers and cooking, batteries, waste minim-
 ization, solar hot water, water pumping, and the products available in
 this field. We're into safe, clean home-made energy using the only nuke
 we'll ever need (convieniently 93 million miles away).