Standalone Green Power

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Standalone Green Power

• Cabin and Hydroplant Design
• Josh Bittle, Adam Botterbusch,
• Garry Brock, David Coleman, James Painter

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375,000

• -- Approximately how much the college spends on
  electricity per building per year.
• But what if electricity could be had for much
  less?

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Our Project

• Build a purely solar-powered study cabin.

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Specifics

• Maximize power produced by the panels by using
  unneeded power to pump water to an elevated pool.
  
• When solar power is lacking (i.e., cloudy day,
  night, etc) water from the pool would be allowed
  to flow down past a power-producing turbine.

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Goals

• Determine if the following design is practical
  and efficient.
• Show that saving money by using the
  following design is feasible.
• Show that mankind need not be dependent on
  ever-depleting fossil fuels.
• Make statistical data available to others so
  that they may see if designs are practical on a
  larger scale.

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The Cabin, Pool, and Solar Array Design
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Overhead View of the Cabin
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Front of Cabin
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Pool Design
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Solar Array
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Taking measurements at the site
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Piping system
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Pipe lengths
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How we found the depth...
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Boating in the quarry
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Turbine ?
? Pump
Valve ?
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Cabin Electrical Designs
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Fulfilling Our Final Goal

• Collect the following data
• Pool temperature
• Water level in pool
• Power available from solar array
• Valve opened/closed
• Wind

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Grand total 15802.15