Days 22-24

We didn't work on Friday seeing as Alec was home in Wisconsin for the weekend. Then we worked for about an hour on Monday because Alec missed his flight back because he was eating BBQ ribs and got carried away. Oh Alec. Tuesday was an institutional day. We worked with flow charts and a ton of write ups. Trying to come up with every possibility for every aspect of this project in order to have a solid presentation to Lehigh. Our topics are Location, Staffing, Methods, Feed Stock, Regulations, Use of Compost, and Research Possibilities for PhDs. Location has three possibilities, indoors, by the community garden now, or at another site off by the highway. Methods are in-vessel, out-of-vessel, or out-of-vessel static aerated pile. Feed Stock is made up of our multi-phase plan to start small and steady, and slowly add more and more places on campus until we are 100% green. Staffing could be fully staffed, fully student run, or ran by a 3rd party contracted source. Research opportunities is basically a list of professors and doctors that would possibly want to support our project and conduct research if it was fully functioning. Regulations I don't even want to touch. There's permit-by-rule, which means we don't need an actual permit as long as we follow all of the rules while we're composting. There's general permits to even have the facility, and permits for composting off campus food, as well as environmental protection permits. No thanks. Lots of e-mailing was involved for Tuesday. We didn't even have time to compost.

So that leads us to today, still writing our little institutional model. We will be composting later. Mark Orrs is bringing in free pizza for all of his groups. Wahoo! We are hoping to have a prototype of SUSAN by friday. Like a fully functioning SUSAN. With a 3D printed body, and all of her probes plugged into one Arduino and working. We'll see how that goes seeing as Ben won't be here on Friday. Weird to think that we have two and a half weeks left.