The past week has been marked mainly by a deluge of field trips with my class. Friday we went to see a solar electric system at the Escuela Alemana just a few blocks from our graduate campus. Saturday was a trip to the Berlin geothermal project that took most of the day. And today we went to see the solar project on the roof of the government's hydropower agency that I blogged about back in January. All good trips: I think/hope the students are getting a lot out of them. The class chugs on, now half over! The students gave me first drafts of their group projects last week, and I gave them back today with comments. Tomorrow I have office hours so I can see if I pissed any of them off.
I've been having fun disassembling solar pathway lights, the only cheap PV modules we've been able to buy locally. I did a dry run today of the lab I'm going to have the students do Thursday, in which they will connect the modules to resistors on a breadboard and generate basic IV curves. It worked pretty well.
Basilia and I went out with my co-worker Eduardo and his wife Claudia and daughter Yasmin on Sunday, first to the wholesale produce market where Basilia bought about 8 pounds of mangos, then to El Boquerón volcano. That's been about it for recreation this busy week.
our field trips to see solar and gothermal systems
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