Thank you Russel, Erik and Rich for the responses and info. I was intentionally broad in my question. I try to provide a bit more insight and maybe some more focus and clarity.
So what I'm thinking about is primarily is the usage of renewable energy sources and energy efficiency in residential and commercial buildings. I'm a big believer in distributed solar, heat pumps/exchangers, and public utility districts. What triggered this line of inquiry was recently learning about a teenage girl who won a national science fair by coming up with a more inexpensive system of doing this with a timer and motors to re-align the solar panels to the sun as it moves. Before understanding how her system worked, I just starred thinking about data, sensors, servos and mechanical/electrical interfaces and energy usage and environmental applications. Admittedly, much of this doesn't require an embedded OS of any sort, I guess I just like the idea of using Linux to solve some of these energy/environmental issues that are bearing down on all of us. So I was curious to know if anyone knew about or was doing any interesting projects along these lines. Cheers, Mike > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
