Mountain House

OK so here's the deal, a while back some couples in our ward put on a preparedness night for us, and one of the things they had introduced to us was this Mountain House food, they had opened, and prepared I would say 8 of the main entrees and they were all very very good, I mean surprisingly good for something that was freeze dried and not home made. But here's the better part, they keep on the shelf for an astronomical amount of time. What they had brought was the standard pouch which will keep on the shelf for 8 years, however I have found on there web site that they offer what is called a #10 size can, and they are said to keep for 25 years. Now that's the kind of food storage that I can keep up with. Yes they are expensive but if you break it down they are a pretty standard price for a meal, and one that keeps for a long time.

anyway check them out here they've got tons of variety to choose from.

Happy food Storaging!

Grades

Grades are in, and I'm a bit surprised by the results, I really thought I did worse when I screwed up my final exam. But I'll just consider it an early Christmas gift.

So It runs down like this A-,A,A,A-,A,A = 3.9 GPA

So there it is.

2.5 weeks from now and it's more Math, and Electric Circuits, and another Renewable energy class. New for this term is Chemistry, Physics and Sustainable Development. I'm not so sure about this sustainable development class, I met the lady who teaches it at the beginning of the year and even she is a bit crunchy for me. Chemistry and Physics however should be pretty fun, I really liked them in High School.

Nanosolar

Their "first shipment"..... well first as in, one to a history museum one on eBay and the rest going to solar farms. But it's a start and hopefully it wont be 2010 before we see these available to consumers, however that's probably the case.

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After five years of product development – including aggressively pipelined science, research and development, manufacturing process development, product testing, manufacturing engineering and tool development, and factory construction – we now have shipped first product and received our first check of product revenue.

We are grateful to everyone who supported us through all these years and the many occasions where there appeared to be mile-high concrete walls in our path; the unusual intensity and creativity of our team deserves all the credit for achieving this major milestone today.

Our product is defining in more ways I can enumerate here but includes:

- the world’s first printed thin-film solar cell in a commercial panel product;

- the world’s first thin-film solar cell with a low-cost back-contact capability;

- the world’s lowest-cost solar panel – which we believe will make us the first solar manufacturer capable of profitably selling solar panels at as little as $.99/Watt;

- the world’s highest-current thin-film solar panel – delivering five times the current of any other thin-film panel on the market today and thus simplifying system deployment;

- an intensely systems-optimized product with the lowest balance-of-system cost of any thin-film panel – due to innovations in design we have included.

Today we are announcing that we have begun shipping panels for freefield deployment in Eastern Germany and that the first Megawatt of our panels will go into a power plant installation there.

As far as the first three of our commercial panels are concerned:

Panel #1 will remain at Nanosolar for exhibit.

Panel #2 can be purchased by you in an auction on eBay starting today.

Panel #3 has been donated to the Tech Museum in San Jose.

[These are obviously not the first three we ever produced – we have produced loads for testing – but these are the first three of what we consider our commercial panels.]

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Its over

So I have just written my last test, and I think I did alright on all of them except for my alternative Energy test. I was thrown off by my bike being stolen and messed everything up on the test, I couldn't get anything right. So I am hoping that my mark going into the exam was high enough to account for my poor performance on the final, which I would know by now, except that my teacher is apparently having some difficulty getting that grade out to us like he promised.

Anyhow by the 20th of December I should know what all my final grades are and my schedule for next term.

So from now until Jan 7th, I'm free...... well..... free to finish all the work that Amy has lined up for me that is.