Wow, to think that this week is already half over is kind of mind-boggling. I feel like my project is coming along quite nicely, and I wonder if I'm going to get done a bit early! Hopefully not, so I have something to do the whole three weeks.
So far, I feel pretty comfortable with the current situation. It's really nice, because I sit at my desk for a bit, and then we head of to a meeting to go see a client. This way, I get to do some work, and then get up and take a break, maybe learn something new while I'm there, and then come back and get right back to work feeling refreshed.
I think the coolest thing that happened to me today was this morning, I think at 9, my mentor had a meeting with an engineer who works for a bio-medical company. After they did their planning, we all went down into the basement, which was really cool, as was the rest of the whole facility. My mentor showed me one of the systems that they had which was basically a water cooler, but was really fancy and complicated. The way it worked was that there were refrigerants, and the refrigerants would take the heat from water that would pass through it, and so then the refrigerants became hot, and the water became cold, and so the refrigerants then had to go through a process of cooling down again, and it was this big machine that looked like this:
Afterwards, I got back to work and went to one of the guys who worked upstairs. He worked with me from the first day to get me set up with a computer, and I don't really know exactly what role he plays in the company, but I think he's the guy who handles all the electrics with the building. Anywho, he was able to give me a bunch of files that told me the monthly and daily averages of kWh consumption. This, along with the kWh consumption data I got from my mentor, was all put into a nice little spreadsheet I put together. Now that I have really all the data that I need, I can start to work towards getting some numbers on how much the whole project would cost, with comparing prices of different panels and whatnot. Then, once that's done, I can start to calculate how long it will take to start getting a return on the investment. A.K.A. How long will it take until the thing pays itself off, and then starts making money. And then we can hop into the planning phase, and working towards getting a potential plan all set in place.
So far, I feel pretty comfortable with the current situation. It's really nice, because I sit at my desk for a bit, and then we head of to a meeting to go see a client. This way, I get to do some work, and then get up and take a break, maybe learn something new while I'm there, and then come back and get right back to work feeling refreshed.
I think the coolest thing that happened to me today was this morning, I think at 9, my mentor had a meeting with an engineer who works for a bio-medical company. After they did their planning, we all went down into the basement, which was really cool, as was the rest of the whole facility. My mentor showed me one of the systems that they had which was basically a water cooler, but was really fancy and complicated. The way it worked was that there were refrigerants, and the refrigerants would take the heat from water that would pass through it, and so then the refrigerants became hot, and the water became cold, and so the refrigerants then had to go through a process of cooling down again, and it was this big machine that looked like this:
Afterwards, I got back to work and went to one of the guys who worked upstairs. He worked with me from the first day to get me set up with a computer, and I don't really know exactly what role he plays in the company, but I think he's the guy who handles all the electrics with the building. Anywho, he was able to give me a bunch of files that told me the monthly and daily averages of kWh consumption. This, along with the kWh consumption data I got from my mentor, was all put into a nice little spreadsheet I put together. Now that I have really all the data that I need, I can start to work towards getting some numbers on how much the whole project would cost, with comparing prices of different panels and whatnot. Then, once that's done, I can start to calculate how long it will take to start getting a return on the investment. A.K.A. How long will it take until the thing pays itself off, and then starts making money. And then we can hop into the planning phase, and working towards getting a potential plan all set in place.
Afterwards, I got back to work and went to one of the guys who worked upstairs. He worked with me from the first day to get me set up with a computer, and I don't really know exactly what role he plays in the company, but I think he's the guy who handles all the electrics with the building. Anywho, he was able to give me a bunch of files that told me the monthly and daily averages of kWh consumption. This, along with the kWh consumption data I got from my mentor, was all put into a nice little spreadsheet I put together. Now that I have really all the data that I need, I can start to work towards getting some numbers on how much the whole project would cost, with comparing prices of different panels and whatnot. Then, once that's done, I can start to calculate how long it will take to start getting a return on the investment. A.K.A. How long will it take until the thing pays itself off, and then starts making money. And then we can hop into the planning phase, and working towards getting a potential plan all set in place.