In last week's meeting, we saw presentations from the different subgroups within the Spartan Superway. After the presentation, I talked to Ivan and Allan about new updates with the small scale team. We realized that modeling the track and powering the track should be two separate things. Small scale solar panels will be mounted on at least one straight track and one station. Much of the power will be provided from the solar panels given from Miasole. Our goal will still be to get the track to be completely solarized but we will need an additional external power source.
I also talked to Professor Mokri about any additional resources that he may know of that pertains to solar panels and interfacing with them. He directed me to a few searches such as National Renewable Energy and PG&E Solar.
