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| June 2005: Hybrid Energy System Installation at the Pearl Lagoon Academy of Excellence (PLACE) School in Pearl Lagoon |
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| A turbine rotor is loaded on to a boat at the docks in Bluefields. |
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| Lâl Marandin carries to the rotor to the installation site in Pearl Lagoon. |
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| A team checks the casting of the tower foundation. |
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| A curious group of local kids help Ismael Castillo and Zayra Romo measure out the anchor chains. |
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| One of the tower anchors is lowered into its hole. The gound was too sandy and wet to dig the normal six feet, so concrete was added to the achor. |
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| A second anchor is prepared and positioned. |
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| Kenry Martin adjusts the rotor disks. |
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| Norman and Ismael attach the rotor and do some alternator adjusting. |
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| Ismael displays the tail vane for the Pearl Lagoon turbine, which is cut out in the shape of Nicaragua. |
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| The dump load for the turbine. |
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| Wires run under the roof for the solar panels and dump load. |
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| The battery box. The battery bank is comprised of 4, Trojan T105 6 V batteries to give a 24 V system with 220 AH capacity. |
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| Pierre and Ismael share a break. |
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| The power station at the PLACE school in Pearl Lagoon. The setup is mounted on fireboard and includes a break switch, breakers, light switch, light, digital ammeter for the solar panels, analog ammeter for the wind turbine |
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| Solar panels manufactured by SuniSolar in Managua and installed by blueEnergy. The configuration is 150 W @ 24 V. |
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| Top view of the solar panels. |
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| The hybrid system. |
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| The hybrid system and the auditorium. |
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| Students of the PLACE school use blueEnergy's hybrid energy system to power their electonic pianos. |
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| Electric piano music lessons. |
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| Learning piano. |
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| Learning piano. |
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| blueEnergy's power system in the foreground of the auditorium. |
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| Children play with blueEnergy's turbine in the background. |
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