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Sustainable Technology and Energy for Project
S.T.E.V.E.N. Foundation founder Jaroslav Vanek, 1930-2017.
This website of the “Sustainable Technology and Energy Project” is the continuation of the S.T.E.V.E.N. Foundation
(Sustainable Technology and Energy for Vital Economic Needs) which functioned from 1986 to 2018. With the
passing of Jaroslav Vanek on November 15, 2017, the board of the S.T.E.V.E.N. Foundation took the decision in June 2018
to discontinue the activities of the Foundation. The purpose of the S.T.E.P. Project is to continue to provide the small-scale
renewable energy design content to the appropriate technology community.
Transition from S.T.E.V.E.N. Foundation to Sustainable Technology and Energy Project (S.T.E.P.):
The S.T.E.V.E.N. Foundation at its 2018 annual meeting took the decision to discontinue activities. For the foreseeable future, we will continue to maintain this web page as a service to the appropriate technology community under the S.T.E.P. Project name.
Links in this site:
- About the S.T.E.V.E.N. Foundation
- The S.T.E.V.E.N. technologies: descriptions, designs, and construction manuals
- Position papers, proposals, and reports of the Foundation
- Annual newsletters 1991-2015
- Other links
Description of the S.T.E.V.E.N. Foundation
The S.T.E.V.E.N. Foundation was incorporated in
Vanek of
States
Economic Needs. In exploring the low-cost exploitation of solar energy, it is
the desire of the
Foundation to make available to all people, but especially the poor and
disadvantaged,
inexpensive alternate sources of energy for development and economic viability.
Furthermore, it
is the intention that these technologies be used through cooperative entities,
either family groups
or worker/community cooperatives which can both produce and operate them.
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Technologies Developed by the S.T.E.V.E.N. Foundation
Note: the description of technologies below is an online version (with some modifications) of the hardcopy document entitled "Prospectus: the S.T.E.V.E.N. Technologies, third edition" (1997) that is currently distributed to individuals requesting information about STEVEN. The material is intended as a description only. For more information about specific technologies, write to us at
STEVEN Foundation
or send email to jv19@cornell.edu.
Technologies presented
- Solar collector (Manual available)
- Thermal tracking
- Pump designs
- Steam engine -- fixed piston
- Steam engine -- rocking piston
- Solar oven (Manual available)
- Slanted-glass, rear-entry solar oven design (Manual available)
- Icemaker / refrigerator (Manual available)
- Other technologies
S.T.E.V.E.N. Foundation designed solar
parabolic trough collector,
with low-cost steam engine in background.
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Annual Newsletters of the S.T.E.V.E.N. Foundation
- 1991
- 1992
- 1993
- 1994
- 1995
- 1996
- 1997
- 1998
- 1999
- 2000
- 2001
- 2002
- 2003
- 2004
- 2005
- 2006
- 2007
- 2008
- 2009
- 2010
- 2011
- 2012
- 2013
- 2014
- 2015 (plus announcement of hiatus)
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Position papers, proposals, and reports of the S.T.E.V.E.N. Foundation
"Elements of analysis of development strategy for the lowest-income third world countries"
"Internet-base appropriate technology support service for developing countries"
"Design Philosophies for Appropriate Technology"
"Solar
Oven Testing End-of-Semester Report 2004": performance testing of
S.T.E.V.E.N. solar oven design by
Engineers for a Sustainable World (graphics not included yet)"
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- SIFAT (Servants in Faith and Technology)
- Solar Cookers International
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Last updated on 6/18/2018. You may contact us at S.T.E.P. Project, 414 Triphammer Rd, Ithaca, NY 14850 USA.