YMCA Renewables

Project Green

Background
Horsethief Reservoir is located a few miles outside the city of Cascade, Idaho. The reservoir is almost two miles long and one mile wide. The YMCA Camp, located at the south end of the reservoir, includes 9 cabins, 5 yurts, and several other large facilities. The main focus of our project is The Barn, a dining facility that can seat up to 200 people. The camp is currently powered 100% by Idaho Power. Project Green hopes to change this by installing several solar panels across the camp as well as implementing a micro-hydro power station on the reservoir's spillway.

Design Goals
Project Green's goal is to make a building at the YMCA Camp near Horsethief Reservoir in Cascade, Idaho completely energy efficient through the use of renewable energy sources. As many renewable resources can be seasonal, Team Green aims to discover methods of making those resources sustainable year-round. The main focus of this project will be The Barn, a dining facility that can seat up to 200 people. The Barn's main energy consumers are the heaters, kitchen utilities, and two 90kW water heaters. To make this building energy independent, 13 kW will have to be generated through the use of hydro, solar, biomass, and geothermal power.

Daily Power Output
The Barn's average energy usage is 343 kilowatt-hours per day.

Background Research
Topics can include research on material, methods / devices, specialized equations, etc. Topics not covered by your education should be recorded here

Topic one
Make sure to [Help:General_Information#Resources|cite](See the note under Cheatsheet) your sources !!!

Interview with Joe Vandal, 9/9/99
Use bullets, lists and quotes as necessary

Concept Development
This section will document any work which contributes to the final design. This will include prioritizing design functionalities using a design matrix, preliminary testing of concepts, design/testing of prototypes. The below is only an example, the order/completeness may of course be modified as needed.

Consider including an initial system diagram (could be a sketch) which shows initial organization/understanding of subsystems.

Design matrix
Thought ME123 was going to be the last time you did this? Below is an implementation from the Band-Beesten_rolling_drum_set. The table can be organized from least to greatest by any column. Please note, wiki tables are not capable of handling equations like Excel, so you'll have to do this addition by hand.

Sub system one
Description of subsystem functionality (that someone outside of your discipline or unfamiliar with your project would understand

Could also use lists:
 * Foreseen challenges
 * challenge 1
 * challenge 2
 * Ideas, design specs, etc.
 * idea 1
 * idea 2

Proposed solutions
A table making use of the RowTemplate or ADRow templates may work well.

Testing
Descriptions/pictures/data would all work well here!

Below is one idea:

Conclusion
You can use this section to state rational if needed.