Meeting 3 Summary

Hey team,

Sorry for the late update, exams kept me quite busy for the majority of this week.  We had a fairly light turnout last week due to several exams, so I'm looking to have a larger number of you there this week.  We worked in our individual groups to continue developing ideas on how to approach this challenge.  If you haven't been to a meeting yet, we'd still love to have you there, so come on out this Monday night at 7:00. 

I'd also like to invite everyone to come out Happy Hour tonight at 4:30 at Legends.  Its a good opportunity to hang out with fellow EWB members, and get to know them outside of projects.  There are half priced appetizers before 5, so thats always a good deal.  And if you're not 19, its considered a restaurant before 8, so you're welcome as well.

In any case, keep working on your tasks, and I'll see everyone on Monday, or this evening at Happy Hour if you can make it.

Enjoy your weekend,

Brian

Hey team,

First of all, don't forget our meeting tomorrow night at 7:00 in 106B6 Engineering Hall.  I'm may be a bit late, because I'm on crutches, and can't get around as quickly anymore...

Also, I have a few things I've been looking into, and hopefully it will help you move along in the right direction.

For Collection: I think I already mentioned Sopogy as a concentrator manufacturer.  Also, Skyfuel produces utility scale concentrators, but they can probably help us if we ask.  As a baseline, 400 feet of hose on a roof in Ensenada, Mexico, can heat the water in it to 110 fahrenheit over the course of an hour.  So we clearly need to do something to concentrate the sunlight in order to achieve the higher temperatures we're looking for.

For Storage: The insulating material I would recommend to use is polyurethane, as the Arial Foundation has developed a process that can spray this foam into panels of whatever size and thickness we require.

For Pumping: I heard about some inexpensive pumps for RV applications, manufactured by ShurFlo, but I imagine there are other suppliers as well.  My guess is that we don't need constant circulation, but rather only several minutes out of every hour.

For Cooking: I really don't have too much for you, but if you haven't done so, I imagine you'll need to do some work with heat transfer equations, and I can give you a hand with that if you need it.

Alright, I'll see everyone on Monday.

Brian