Greenlight Academy & Pure Point Energy at Penfield Light

 Here is a recap video of the 4 weeks with Green Light Academy click here – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQTN-uqOmRk

 Greenlight Academt Students with PurePoint Energy outsied Penfield Reef Lighthouse in Fairfield, CT

One of the students drills holes in the cement that will be used to anchor the windmills.

More Drilling on the South balcony

 Preparing the battery installation for power storage

 

 

 

 

Trip out to Penfield Reef Light to set up Windmill

Arriving at the dock of Penfield

Here is the outside stairway and railing

Here is another view of the first level walkway leading to the doorway

The Westside of the Lighthouse contains solar panels that provide power for the light and fog horns.

Another look at the West Face of the Lighthouse

Keith stands on the rocky foundation of Large rocks that protect the Lighthouse from the weather.

The prisoners keep their spirits up in hopes that they will be leaving the island soon.

Here is one of the windows on the East face of the Lighthouse..

Up on top of the beacon

Ready to make another trip back to the Marina.

This morning, Greenlight Academy ventured off to the Sikorsky Airport to learn about harnessing the winds power to create energy. The session started out with a retired United Technology Engineer who spoke to the class about windmills. After a group discussion, and Q&A, the class began building their own wind powered models.

The class was held at one ofr the  Sikorsky Hangers in Stratford.

Here is the Greenlight Academy class of 2009 at Sikorsky Airport, Stratford, CT

Here the students break into small groups to build the model windmills

In the Hanger a number of Aircraft are being used for training.

 

A small group begins pulling the parts together as they assemble the windmill.

Greenlight Academy student strategize on the most efficient way to begin building. A sketch must be completed before the actual model is developed.

 

Sunday outside

It was a great day with the weather Sunday. I had a chance to get out some with the camera. These photos are from The Fairfield Beach area and South Pine Beach.

Hiswtory – Events that happened on June – 01

1495 The first written record of Scotch Whiskey appears in Exchequer Rolls of Scotland. Friar John Cor is the distiller

1638 The first earthquake recorded in US, at Plymouth, Mass

1774 British govt orders Port of Boston closed

1789 The first US congressional act becomes law (on administering oaths)

1792 Kentucky becomes the 15th state of the union.

1796 Tennessee becomes the 16th state of the U.S.

1808 The fir1st US land-grant university founded-Ohio Univ, Athens, Ohio

1809 Allardyce Barclay begins a bet of walking 1 mile every hour for 1,000 hours. Each hour he walked a � mile round trip from his home

1813 Capt John Lawrence utters Navy motto “Don’t give up the ship”

1813 Captain James Lawrence, commander of the U.S. frigate Chesapeake, coins the phrase “Don’t give up the ship,” during a losing battle with a British frigate.

1843 It snows in Buffalo & Rochester NY & Cleveland Ohio

1843 Sojourner Truth leaves NY to begin her career as antislavery activist

1845 Homing pigeon completes 11,000 km trip (Namibia-London) in 55 days

1855 US adventurer Wm Walker conquers Nicaragua, reestablishes slavery

1861 The first skirmish in the Civil War, Fairfax Court House, Va

1861 US & Confederacy simultaneously stop mail interchange

1862 Gen Lee assumes command after Joe Johnston is injured at 7 Pines

1864 Battle of Cold Harbour, VA

1866 Renegade Irish Fenians invade Fort Erie Ontario from US

1868 James Buchanan, the 15th president of the U.S., dies near Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

1868 Texas constitutional convention meets in Austin

1875 Ceremony of turning the first sod on the Canadian Pacific Railway on the left bank of the Kamistiquia River in the townsite of Fort William about four miles from the river’s mouth.

1877 US troops authorized to pursue bandits into Mexico

1888 California gets its first seismograph

1889 Europe’s Orient Express completes arrangements for travel between Paris and Constantinople without change of train