Green Science

• Meetings: Tuesdays at 1pm.

• Solar panel setup on roof of Dennis
  • Expedite Bill Mullin's approval of mounting system on parapets
    • Bill responded to the Dennis Hall 4th floor diagrams made by Mic and Mary last Thursday (20050616). He indicated that he would check 3rd floor structurals for wind tower. We need Geoff's drawings for parapet mount. If we have not heard by Friday (20050621), Mary needs to follow up.
  • (Geoff Greenfield is frozen until we get this)
    • Mic needs to call Geoff to follow up on Bill's document, and to request design for parapet mount.
    • (20050706 - Mic) Geoff is just bringing a new employee on board, with CAD skills. Her first job is to make his rough sketch of the parapet mount into an engineering sketch.
      • (20050712) Mary will follow up with Geoff on CAD parapet mount design and with Bill on flat roof mount and structural issue wrt wind tower
      • (20050712) Mic will contact the young civil engineer we'd worked with last year to see if he is available
  • Mary to contact to see if he has everything he needs to approve --
    • done, conversation started

• Green Zone setup in the first floor lounge of Dennis
  • Contact Andy Chao and get whatever he has for a rendering of the first floor space, Mary to find phone/physical address.
    • met with Andy on Tuesday morning (20050621), and will meet again on Thursday at 10:30.
    • Mic needs to find pictures of equipment and send to Andy
    • Charlie needs to read basic green science document, find out what we planned for display cases and let Andy know
    • http://www.usgbc.com -
    • Green walls, composite or bamboo table to match existing carpet and new wall color.
    • The Green Zone should be LEEDS certifiable, maybe silver or gold (not platinum).
    • Rolling, armless chairs with flexible backs.
  • Re-read the green zone document, start to plan various interactive displays (Alex and Mary)
    • Power interface display cabinet
      • inverter/switch to indicate whether we are pushing electricity into the Dennis grid or taking electricity from that grid
    • Display wall
      • Cabinets - Roof Systems monitoring and conversion
      • Posters - Mary is putting together text files for what she thinks should be on them.
        • Environmental Responsibility Plan (by whiteboard)
        • Wind and Solar Roof Systems (by mirror with arrow for "see cabinet")
  • Contact RP&L to learn about net metering

• Wind monitoring South of campus
  • Maps
  • Anemometer setup, first on roof of Dennis then in field, with Alex
    • Charlie and Mary will go to area
    • The Wind direction sends an analogue number. The Wind speed is the number of pulses per 2.25 second interval. The number of pulses is the windspeed in MPH. Issue now is getting the count to reset after set time.
  • PMP hardware/software setup, with Alex
    • The sample program for reading A/D ports doesn't work on our setup, Alex will contact tech support.
    • Document PMP setup in a wiki (HIP/PMP Setup)

• Wind generator setup on roof of Dennis
  • Need engineering design of tower/pole structure for generator
  • Mary to contact to see if he has everything he needs to design

• Miller Farm
  • Contact John Walker about energy usage data.
    • Contacted RP&L. waiting on response.
  • Eletric Usage for past 2 or 3 years.

• Coordination with Indiana State Commerce
  • Heather Rippey (emails are invalid), Program Manager, Energy Resources
  • Indiana Dept of Commerce, One North Capitol, Suite 700
  • Indianapolis, IN, 46204
  • 317-232-8965, fax: 317-232-8995, Mic to call
  • www.indianacommerce.com
  • Big ?? -- Are the Alternative Power and Energy (APE) and Energy Education and Demonstration Grant Programs still operative?
    • (20050621) We have unable to establish contact with the State.
  • (20050711 - Mic) Heather Rippey's office no longer exists, but I've had excellent contact with
    • Ryan J. Brown,
    • Office of the Lieutenant Governor - Energy Group,
    • Program Manager
    • 317-232-8961
    • rbrown@lg.in.gov
    • www.energy.IN.gov
  • Ryan is very interested in what we are doing and believes it can be supported to the tune of 50% of the overall cost (previous gov't commitment was up to 30%). He sent me documentation for the Education and Demonstration program, and I'm in the process of writing an initial document to send to him. There is no particular format -- we sent him certain information, and he lets us know what more or different information he needs. Also, no particular time schedule.
    • The current proposal draft is at http://www.cs.earlham.edu/~micj/_greenScience/EEDproposalJuly05.txt

• Weather Station
  • Complete hardware setup and monitoring software (Alex and Mary)
    • Waiting for a part from Davis.
    • Create wiki (HIP/Weather Station Setup) with the details of the ETS and Davis station
  • Cleanup and organize data, Mary has chart - figuring out how to compare our data with other local data.
  • Complete web interface with tabular and graphic output
  • When not occupied with pressing duties, Mary will work on become the team meteorologist.

• Resources
  • http://www.cs.earlham.edu/~charliep/green-science/overview.html - The plan, so to speak. This should be moved into a wiki page at some point so we can all update it easily.
  • (20050711 - Mic) I've updated this page as part of the application prepartion process. Find it at http://www.cs.earlham.edu/~micj/_greenScience/GreenScienceProjectsOverview.txt

• Press
  • http://www.earlham.edu/publicaffairs/content/pressroom/archive/2005/june/050617s-energy.php - Earlham's write-up of the Green Science project.