Welcome to... 
 
The School Energy Doctor 
Microsoft Windows Version 1.05  -  19 April 1996 

Produced by 
 Center for Renewable Energy and Sustainable Technology (CREST) 
 
Sponsored by 
 U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) 
 Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy 
  Office of Utility Technology 
 
Project management 
  National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) 
  NREL Sub-contract #HI-2-12006-00 
 
 
The School Energy Doctor is a multimedia production designed to lead high school students through a 
water and energy audit of their school.  It provides students with easy calculations to see how efficiency 
and renewable energy can save energy, water, and money as well as reduce pollution right at their own 
school.  The School Energy Doctor will be distributed with another CREST product, The Sun's Joules, a CD-
ROM multimedia encyclopedia on renewable energy, but it is also being made available separately.  The 
School Energy Doctor is not intended to be a stand-alone educational package and should be supplemented 
appropriately with other material explaining the context and relevance of the information presented in it. 

This package is freely distributable shareware software.  Please read the file "Register.txt" which 
explains the terms of the shareware arrangement.

This document contains information to help you get the most out of the School Energy Doctor.  Topics 
included: 
 
     - System requirements 
     - Installation notes 
     - How to use the School Energy Doctor 
     - Comments on curricula to supplement the School Energy Doctor 
     - About the School Energy Doctor Online 
     - About CREST 
     - Legal matters 
 
 
System Requirements 
 
The Microsoft Windows version of the School Energy Doctor has been designed to run on a machine 
running Microsoft Windows 3.1 or greater (including Windows 95).  The program requires 4 megabytes of 
available RAM memory, 6 megabytes of hard disk space, and monitor set to display 256 colors. 
 
Installation notes 
 
Use the program Setup.exe, provided on disk 1, to install the School Energy Doctor. 
 
When you have completed installing the School Energy Doctor, you should have a program group called 
School Energy Dr. with the following files in it: 
 
Schnrgdr.exe         - The main multimedia program 
Auditfrm.doc         - Microsoft Word 5.0 version of the Audit Form  
Auditfrm.wri         - A text version of the Audit Form 
Calcs.xlw            - Microsoft Excel 4.0 version of the program's calculations  
Readme.wri           - This file 
 
 
How to use the School Energy Doctor 
 
Start by looking over the School Energy Dr. 1.05 multimedia program and learning how the program works.  
Once you have tried this, print out the Audit Form and gather the information requested on the form.  This 
will take a fair bit of planning and time.  Once you have completed the Audit Form, return to the School 
Energy Doctor to enter the data and see how your school can save with efficiency and renewable energy.  
After you have used the program for a while, you may be interested in looking in more detail at the 
calculations used in the program.  You can do this by opening the Calculation Spreadsheet file (requires 
Microsoft Excel 4.0 or later or a program which can read Microsoft Excel 4.0 Workbooks).  All of these files 
are described below. 
 
File name:  Schnrgdr.exe  (School Energy Dr. 1.05) 
 
This is the School Energy Doctor multimedia program.  This is where the information gained from an audit of 
a school (performed with the guide of the Audit Form, see below) is put to use as students explore 
possibilities for energy efficiency, water efficiency, and renewable energy.  The program is fairly self-
explanatory.  It has a help section available from the File menu and most text in the program can be clicked 
with a mouse to bring up context-sensitive information for greater detail.  This program can be explored at 
any time and is the heart of the School Energy Doctor, but to fully use the program, the Audit Form should 
be printed and completed first.  There are further instructions within both the program and the Audit Form. 
 
 
File name:  Auditfrm.doc 
 
This form should be printed and used to collect information to be entered in the School Energy Doctor.  
Detailed instructions with many suggestions on how to conduct the audit are included alongside each 
question of the audit.  This audit is best performed after reading the material in the Science Room of the 
School Energy Doctor, which gives insights into the technologies that are being examined. 
 
 
File name:  Calcs.xlw 
 
This spreadsheet is the complex engine from which the School Energy Doctor was developed.  Every 
calculation that takes place in the multimedia program and every question that is asked in the audit was first 
developed in this spreadsheet.  It is included for those who want to explore the program's fundamentals.  It 
also allows students (or teachers) a means of manipulating  calculations used in the School Energy Doctor.  
Please note that this file is completely independent of the multimedia program, and changing the 
spreadsheet does not affect the multimedia program in any way. 
 
 
 
Comments on curricula to supplement the School Energy Doctor 
 
Since the School Energy Doctor was developed to be distributed with The Sun's Joules, it does not have 
much of the basic science and interdisciplinary educational material that should accompany the presentation 
of an audit of this type.  It does not answer the questions of why, concentrating instead on how much, and 
what.  To provide this rounding, the School Energy Doctor should be presented either with The Sun's 
Joules, or within the context of another resource or classroom discussion. 
 
The primary topics which are lacking are explanations of environmental effects and the significance of 
aggregate numbers.  Within the Earth Science room of the multimedia program, some fairly good data on 
local pollution has been gathered and presented, but there is no discussion of the significance in the levels 
of pollution being released.  In all of the analysis rooms of the School Energy Doctor's Smart School, there
is 
data presented for the school in daily, monthly, or yearly views, but the relatively small amount of savings 
possible at one school should be presented with an eye to how much could be saved if every school took 
similar measures.  These aggregate numbers can be very helpful in showing the importance of even small 
improvements. 
 
 
About the School Energy Doctor Online 
 
CREST has created a World Wide Web page on the Internet which is dedicated to the School Energy 
Doctor.  In addition, have started a listserv (an Internet email discussion group), to allow users of the
School 
Energy Doctor to contact one another as well as contact the developers of the School Energy Doctor.  
Information about the listserv and other aspects of the School Energy Doctor Online can be found by using 
a Web browser such as Netscape to visit CREST at the following URL: 
 
    http://solstice.crest.org/efficiency/SED/ 
 
You can also send email to schnrgdr@crest.org to get an automatic reply with more information about the 
School Energy Doctor Online. 
 
To subscribe to the listserv, send an email message to majordomo@crest.org with only "subscribe 
SCHNRGDR-L" as the body of the message. 
 
 
About CREST 
 
The Center for Renewable Energy and Sustainable Technology is the primary program of the Solar Energy 
Research and Education Foundation (SEREF), an educational non-profit organization based in Washington, 
DC.  CREST focuses on the development of educational multimedia CD-ROMs and the operation of Solstice, 
an Internet information service dedicated to the development of sustainable sources of energy.  
 
CREST's other major software complete as of early 1996 include The Sun's Joules, an educational CD-ROM 
for high school students; the Greening of the White House CD-ROM, which documents energy and 
environmental upgrades at the White House complex and how these technologies and practices can be 
applied to homes across the country; and the Renewable Energy Exhibit, currently still a demonstration 
version (0.2), this CD-ROM is a general primer on renewable energy technologies, with detailed information 
on bioenergy, geothermal, small hydropower, solar photovoltaic, solar thermal, and wind, as well as sections 
on solar physics, global economic and environmental impacts, and case studies. 
 
Author of the School Energy Doctor: 
  Eric Woods, elw@crest.org   
 
Bug reports and other comments about the School Energy Doctor: 
  sed-feedback@crest.org 
  
Electronic mail:  
 schnrgdr@crest.org  School Energy Doctor information 
 info@crest.org	      General information 
 joules@crest.org    The Sun's Joules CD-ROM information  
 gotwh@crest.org     The Greening of the White House CD-ROM information  
 ree@crest.org       RE Exhibit CD-ROM information  
 
Solstice:  
 World wide web -- http://solstice.crest.org/  
 Gopher -- gopher.crest.org  
 FTP -- solstice.crest.org, cd pub/   (ftp://solstice.crest.org/pub/) 
  
Fax:  
 202-289-5354  
 
 
Legal matters 
 
Sponsorship of this project by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) does not constitute an endorsement by 
the DOE of any views expressed in the School Energy Doctor. 
 
The School Energy Doctor was developed using Macromedia Director 4.04.  Macromedia™ and the Made 
With Macromedia logo are trademarks of Macromedia, Inc. 
 
The School Energy Doctor uses Setup Factory™, developed by Indigo Rose Corporation, to install the 
Microsoft Windows version of the School Energy Doctor.  This software is available as shareware and can 
be obtained from most shareware FTP archive sites. 
 
Microsoft and Microsoft Windows are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. 
 
 
License agreement: 
 
Please read the following software license agreement carefully.  By using this product, you are confirming 
your acceptance of the terms of this agreement.  If you do not agree to the terms of this agreement, please 
return the software unused to the place of purchase for a full refund. 
 
LIMITED USE LICENSE 
 
The School Energy Doctor software version 1.04 ("this program") is copyrighted in the United States and 
internationally by the Solar Energy Research and Education Foundation ("SEREF", the parent organization 
of the Center for Renewable Energy and Sustainable Technology).  SEREF grants you the right to use one 
copy of this program for your personal use only.  You must treat this program like any other copyrighted 
material.  You may not run this program on multiple machines, install this program on a computer network, or 
make copies of this program except for a single copy solely for backup purposes.  Please contact SEREF for 
information on site and network licensing.  You may not create or distribute derivative works based on this 
program or its content.  All rights not expressly granted in this license are reserved by SEREF.  The U.S. 
Department of Energy holds a paid-up, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to use this program. 
 
LIMITED WARRANTY 
 
SEREF grants you a warranty for ninety days from the date of purchase that this product will function 
substantially according to the accompanying documentation.  Any implied warranties are limited to ninety 
days.  Some states do not allow limitations on the duration of an implied warranty, so the above limitation 
may not apply to you. 
 
LIMITATION ON DAMAGES 
 
SEREF shall not be responsible for any indirect, special, incidental or consequential damages (including 
damages for loss of business, loss of profits, or the like) related to installing or using this product. 
SEREF's 
total liability to you for actual damages shall be limited to the cost of the product.  Some states do not
allow 
the limitation or exclusion of liability for incidental or consequential damages, so the above limitation or 
exclusion may not apply to you. 
 
GOVERNANCE 
 
This agreement shall be governed by the laws of the District of Columbia.

