Thursday 2/28 Minutes

• Reminder: Meeting Tomorrow (Saturday) at the Energy Park, 11am

• Solar Cities Conference in Australia SolarCitiesCongress.com.au

Dan Robinson shared a few things he learned at Solar Cities Congress 2008 in Adelaide, Australia. Pictures and pamphlets were passed around, including a large-scale concentrator system powering a Sterling engine, and a 5MW wind turbine with a helicopter pad on top of the nacelle. EcoVision has created a monitoring system to see where the most power is being consumed in a home, as well how much power is coming from photovoltaic cells when in place. Also, a solar taxi, with a trailer of solar panels to charge its batteries, was at the conference, and will be coming to the U.S. soon. We would like to show them there is interest in Gainesville for a demonstration here. Dan also mentioned there was a lot of talk about solar nano technologies and the importance of government policies/ subsidies. He will be speaking again about the conference this Thursday, March 6, at noon at the Booklover’s Café for anyone interested in hearing more.

• Education

We will now have a small educational presentation at each meeting, and rotate through presenters. If you have topic suggestions or would like to speak, please e-mail Dan (drob22@ufl.edu). Yesterday, Alex Palomino gave a power point on how a PV cell works. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=napVP6jAZxM

• Earth Day, Tuesday April 22

Earth Day activities include tabling on campus and a solar cookoff. We will be making individual solar cookers sometime in early April to prepare for the massive feast on Earth Day.

• 5^th Annual Arts Festival: April 19 (10am-5pm) and April 20^th (noon-5pm)

ASES will participate in the 5^th Annual Arts Fest again this year. There will be a focus on conservation and promoting awareness. The date is the weekend before Earth Day so several environmentally-friendly groups will participate.

• Shirts are here and can be picked up at any Thursday or Saturday meeting for $10

• National Solar Conference in San Diego
  • Fundrasing:
    • We would like to have a bake sale at the Farmers’ Market, with solar and non-solar-cooked cookies, brownies. etc.
    • We have begun planning a carwash for the week after spring break, at the Walgreens on 34^th and Archer, tentatively. Please e-mail drob22@ufl.edu if you have any supplies or would like to help!
    • Sponsors: Resume CD, T-shirt logo, Legitimate reasons for going
  • Volunteers: Please send in packets you received in the mail ASAP.
  • Bulk Discounts: Harry found a discount on Priceline for just under $200 per ticket if eight of us go.

ASES Meeting

We are meeting in Rinker 230 at 6:00pm Thursday, February 28th.

We will be discussing San Diego Fundraising, Solar Incentives, and Dan’s trip to the Solar Cities Congress in Australia.

Thursday 2/21 Minutes

• Shirts are here and can be picked up at any Thursday or Saturday meeting for $10.

• Valdosta Overview. We learned several tips for imporving the club, including how to attract new

ASES Meeting

ASES will be meeting this Thursday, February 21st at 6:30pm in 230 Rinker Hall.

If you’re not sure where Rinker is check out the UF Campus Map.

Alligator Article

Check out yesterday’s article about Dan’s trip to Australia.
www.alligator.org/articles/2008/02/15/news/campus/080215_solar.txt

Saturday Meeting

Everyone remember, Solar Park tomorrow at 11!

ASES @ U.F invades Valdosta, GA for SSREC

The ASES crew here at UF recently took a trip up to Valdosta, GA for the 2008 Southeast Student Renewable Energy Conference. Here they met with college students from surrounding states to discuss the feasability of various energy sources and how to get the word out on campus.