Yesterday, I attended the groundbreaking ceremony for their new building, which, in typical Fairbanks fashion, will mushroom up in a few short months.
All the bigwigs gave talks:
They had put up informative posters are various energy topics at the site:
Groundbreaking!
Afterwards, we headed up to the Museum for a reception:
A windmill propeller was on display:
And there was an exhibit from ACEP about energy:
My favorite poster: energy described in a locally relevant unit--dog-hours!
Blogger went down yesterday, and came back up having eaten my last post. So posting will be light over the next several days until I know that my posts won't be eaten. Perhaps it's just as well. Much better to scroll down and see a behbeh chick sleepingks than a group of engineering and physics nerds stuffing their faces on falafels. :)
3 comments:
I wonder if they can find a way to use ICE for energy resource, even better, use Alaska ice, the land in AK will appreciate.
That would be charming, but unfortunately, ice is not a source of usable energy; it is a sink, i.e., you put heat INTO ice to turn it into water. You cannot take heat OUT OF ice.
Unfortunately.
It would be awesome if we could. I'd heat the house, while outside, the ice drops to Ganymede-like temperatures. Danged Second Law of Thermodynamics always foiling my plans!
Oooh, I would've liked to see the energy exhibit. Alaska has one thing going for it natural-resources-wise besides oil - it has huge geothermal vents all over the state. Look at Chena Hot Springs where they have dug a pipe down to harness the 160deg water and hooked it up to a generator. That hot water heats the entire ranch, makes all their electricity, and heats their greenhouses. They're selling electricity to the nearby air force base.
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