Back to the business

After the great weekend it was time to start the school and study-life again. I caught also a flu at the weekend so I was unable to play football at Monday. Team won thought, so it was good. The early week went quite fast I had a lot to do in the school, very long days from 8-18 and 8-16. We had our first laboratory in Combustion technology. Though it was really short and we just watched the lecturer to use weld and show us the flame. And also he showed how a bunsen burner works with a different mixture. The main thing was to recognise the difference between premixed and diffuse flame, and to understand how to manage the burning.

Also we get the date of our first test and it is one week after it was supposed to be. Now I might be unable to go visit Pacs Nuclear Power Plant at the same day. Though I wrote to the lecturer so maybe he will be able to organise a test for me in a different time. I hope so especially 'cos the visit to Pacs is also told to be obligatory for other course.

Wednesday I heard at the Air Conditioning about a weird sounding custom. If we pass the exams(get 50% of the points) we will have to go to the oral exam in January! But if we get more than 63% of the points we get the grade 3 and we don't need to go to the further exams.

Today we had a visit to Livable Future Park, which was a disappointment. Yes, maybe it is really energy independent, but really almost the only thing they do with the energy is warming and cooling the houses. For example they didn't seem to use the computers upstairs, actually except one, they were all covered. Moreover they didn't have yet a central-controlled energy system, just monitoring was possible so it wasn't really so unique. Though it was good example that yes we have the technology to do this kind of a thing. Only reason why we don't do it is the money and that traditional ways of consuming energy are in use and energy production with fossil fuels is too cheap.

Second thing that was good today was I went for a run after a long long break!

The solar panels: at the time they were producing 6-9 kW energy

Smallest hydro-microturbine I have ever seen. Claimed capacity 200 W but because of leaves etc.
was producing just 50 W of energy

About 40 kWh batteries(Twice as much as in
Michubishi iMIEV and half of Tesla Model S)

Wind turbine(20 kW, I think the same size than in LUT)

Yeah, they have heat pumps

Dog and a red car, one animal per blog, I think it is must?