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| Coastal errosion at Buenos Aires |
When I got back to Trujillo I made my way back to the house and was greeted by some new faces. Trevor from Seattle, who, like me studied physics, and Dan from Toronto, who is an electrician installing large scale wind farms back in Canada (I'm sure his expertise will come in handy, especially during the instillation phase), both of whom had just completed marathon plane journeys which put my bus ride into perspective. I also got to meet another long term windaid volunteer, Tico from Miami who has been working here since July.
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| Buenos Aires |
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| Huanchaco |
After a bit of breakfast Micheal gave us a presentation where he explained a bit more about windaid and it's aims. It was cool to see how far it has come, and get a little more information on how it achieves it's goals of using wind power to help people in Peru with little or no access to a reliable energy source. It was also exciting to learn that they have a franchise in Argentina which has just installed it's first turbine, and there are also tentative plans for windaid Mozambique and India! He also explained that their current aim is to drive the cost of a turbine down as much as they can, so to that end we will be building a ~250W turbine each!
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| Botanical Gardens |
Next we took a trip to the coast to see the old testing sight at a town called Buenos Aires, and also got to see the coastal erosion that has been very aggressive in this are over the past few years. In the afternoon Tico took us to see Trujillo, we stopped at the botanical gardens then walked through the centre via the Plaza de Armas and went to the bus station where we met up with Micheal who was waiting for the last volunteer, Nino, an engineering student from Brisbane.
Tomorrow we get started.
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