Before Ana Cafe
Brook and Ethan got into town a couple of days ago. The bus is currently being repaired. Thankfully, Ethan and Brook were able to bring our processor from the states. They did this by having our 55 gallon drums strapped to the tops of various buses as they made their journey from Antigua, Guatemala to here (Xela). It must have been quite the journey.
Hugo, Annelle, Ethan and myself are headed to Ana Cafe 2 hours outside of Xela to work on acid estrification before our conference. We need to get that tech down before we got to Honduras. Meanwhile, an engineer from 3M named Dan has joined our forces. He seems like a genuinely sweet and intelligent man. Curt, Brook and Dan will be finalizing our methanol evaporization and recovery system over these next days. Dan has over seven years of exerpeince as an engineer and I am excited to see what he contributes to our group.
The solar oven should be finished today, and now that brook is here, we can actually get the heat exchanger rolling.
As always, we are encountering challenges, but as always we are overcoming them.
Ben and Jo will leave today as well to go to SHI’s demo farm to make sure the conference preparation is going smoothly.
Our group is dividing to take on the hundreds of tasks we must complete to make all this work worth something in the end.
Strength and Hope,
Joseph