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Sept 28 - Oct 4. and Enjoy the Solar Home Tour! Oct 2, 2010!
Program presented by experienced MeSEA trainers.
You are invited to attend one day session - $75.
Two day extended session - $125.
Seven day intensive program - $375. (All noon meals included each day).
Limited space is available for overnight stay, or longer, (additional fee required).
Local motel info available.
We will try to keep maximum # of participants to 15 per day.
Call to reserve space at 207-546-1639, 516-669-2442, or 207-497-2204 Payment due upon arrival, thanks.
- Solar PV assembly - training for trainers and workshop intensive with MeSEA.
PV for ASES and NESEA Chapter members, seven day program.
Program (2-day sessions - Sept. 28 - Oct. 4) will allow participants to experience the full assembly procedure, made famous by Dr. Komp in third world "PV Cottage Industry".
(first day will focus on the first half of PV assembly and encapsulation)
60W PV modules will be available for sale to participants, to raise funds for third world work!
How to start a PV "Cottage Industry", with third world communities. With hands-on focus, facilitated by Dr. Komp.
How to ... assemble 60W PV modules in the jungle! With John Burke - Including: a one day PV assembly workshop with a group of local Mainers.
How to combat Climate Change and Global Warming...
Work with local groups, in your community.
-Get ready for Oct 10, 2010 (10-10-10) Global Work Party focus of www.350.org
Discuss the theory behind solar energy and the challenges of development with your instructors and other course participants. Spend your days learning how to construct solar cookers, photovoltaic panels, and installing photovoltaic systems. Laugh along with your host family as you try to recall your high school Spanish, balance water on your head or make tortillas. Most activities and classes are held in the new adobe Solar Center . Housing will be simple, like that of a typical rural Nicaraguan family.
Explore a beautiful country and its culture while learning about renewable energy and sustainable development in the field. Our courses provide a unique travel experience that is educational, rewarding, and fun!
This 11-day course, offered twice a year, has been held by Grupo Fenix since 1999. It is a great introduction to the science and use of appropriate renewable energy technologies such as solar cookers, dryers and photo-voltaic systems. Dr. Richard Komp, an expert from the United States with over 50 years experience working with solar technologies, teaches the technical classes for the January version of this course and the July version is based on his methodology for fabrication of PV panels in developing countries.
See www.grupofenix.org for the latest schedule of courses.
The course fee of $995 includes all food and lodging, with a $50 deposit to be sent to the nonprofit Skyheat Associates at PO Box 184, Harrington ME 04643 before June 15th to insure a place in the course, which has a limit of 15 participants and is often completely full. For more information, please contact the grupofenix@gmail.com or sunwatt@juno.com or look on-line at www.grupofenix.org for details of all of our programs.
Green Buildings Open House, Saturday, October 2, 2010, all over the U. S. A.
Look back here later for a listing of the homes and buildings on the tour in Maine.
Also, check the Northeast Sustainable Energy Association at www.nesea.org.
Grupo Fenix Solar Culture Course in Nicaragua
Come to Nicaragua and engage your head, heart, and hands in the real work of developing countries. Our hands-on courses allow you to be immersed in the daily life of rural Nicaraguans by living with host families and working alongside local community members to create their vision of a model community through renewable energy and sustainable practices.
Participants will:
Also, the course includes various tourist activities such as a visit to nearby beautiful spots in the mountains of northern Nicaragua . If weather permits, we will spend a day exploring the Somoto Canyon and swimming in its natural pools. Also, during the course we will spend a night at a rustic ecolodge in the Tisey Nature Reserve, which has hiking trails, fields of organic vegetables, a farming community that produces its own specialty cheeses and one of the best panoramic views in the country.
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