From nick@vu-vlsi.ee.vill.eduSun Mar 26 10:29:29 1995 Date: 24 Mar 1995 14:57:01 -0500 From: Nick Pine To: london@sunsite.unc.edu Subject: Proposing the creation of alt.solar.photovoltaic I would like to propose the creation of a new alt group, to be called alt.solar.photovoltaic. alt.solar.photovoltaic is intended to be a newsgroup for discussions of photovoltaic energy collection and use, ie making and using electricity from the sun. This is often discussed in alt.energy.renewable, and reading about it there often wastes the time of people who are basically interested in other forms of renewable energy, and photovoltaic people who read that group may not wish to wade through the other discussions that go on there. At this point, it seems useful to specialize... alt.solar.photovoltaic is NOT intended to be a place to discuss solar thermal energy collection and use, except as combined with photovoltaic systems, politics, aesthetics, solar space mirrors, envelope houses, Stirling engines, solar refrigerators or air conditioning, cool tubes, heat pipes, wind energy, wood energy, water energy, methane generation, sewage treatment, perpetual motion, Nikola Tesla, unseen forces, electromagnetic pollution, capturing free energy from power lines or radio stations, nuclear waste, decomposing dead bodies or 600 mpg cars. Nick