Inter Solar North America - San Francisco

So, this week the Spartan Team went to San Francisco to attend to Inter Solar North America conference. It was a great experience to learn more about solar energy and check all those exhibitions.

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One of our goals was to talk to representants of those companies to get them interested in our project. I've talked to a couple of them and their work is impressive.

I got business cards from two companies: HARD - Fastening Systems & Sealants; and PLP preformed line products.

I was approached by Engineer Nerenberg who is also director of supply chain and operations at HARD, he noticed that I was speaking portuguese and came to talk to me. He is also from Brazil and showed interest at our project. Here is his contacts: mario.nerenberg@hard.com.br / +55 (47) 4009-7238 | +55 (47) 9657-1365.

The other person I spoke to is Fred Reardon, Field Sales Manager at PLP, he gave me his contact as well and his company has a nice work, and might be a good choice to help us develop our track. I guess they can adapt solar panels into our track with efficiency. His contacts are: +1 (310) 749-0807 | freardon@preformed.com | www.dpwsolar.com

Phases plan

This past week I was encharged of working in a new idea, a plan divided in phases.
The objective of the phases plan is to focus to build the actual track separately. In phase one we would accomplish our first objective that is connect the two campus.

In phase 2, the idea is to expand the network to attend most of the population living downtown between the campuses.

And finally phase 3 would link the network to points of interest:

Route to San Jose airport.

Route to Tamien station and grocery store (walmart showed as an example).

Route passing through future student housing.

 I also wanted to post a sketch that shows the length of a ground floor station that starts going down over the street (traffic lights would be needed) in order to save some space in the sidewalks.

I'm not an expert on CAD, but I think this simple drawing can give an idea of how an station would occupy space of the sidewalk if it is ground floor.