The past couple weeks have seen some progress in my shifting gears from Coffee Shop to Solar Research & Development. My wife has started working at the office and is fielding most of the calls & taking the weekly coffee orders. She is also helping with much of the random delivering and picking-up of stuff!
Parts are arriving from suppliers, and I am nearly ready to begin assembly in earnest of the first fully functioning heliostat motor unit. I am also formalizing the bounds of the completed array and double-checking all the requirements for the heliostats and the other components.
In other news, I will be more or less free to work on this 3 days a week + weekends after this month, that is once we create a TV commercial together for our coffee shops! We need to boost our retail sales to get over the typical June-July cafe slump. I'm hanging up posters for our new line of smoothies tomorrow.
It IS difficult to put together coherent time at the moment. More on this later.
Hi David, Just wanted to let you know that I think this is an amazing project and hope that you find continued success as you move forward with construction of the Helios V. Even more important than the time and research you are putting into this project, your intent to share it as an open-source technology is really fantastic. I will be watching and waiting impatiently to hear more about your progress!
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