Project leadership / accountability

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Hey,

I know a concern marcin (and others) have in general is accountability over OSE projects.  A headless project with many hands will not create anything.

So, is this a solar turbine revival because someone has committed to seeing through some part of the project?  If we come up with a concept worth testing, is there someone to build and test it?

I see that this endeavour could be broken into many sub-projects, the results of which would be of value on their own, and would also contribute towards the final goal if successful.  for instance:

mirror actuation (and related circuitry)
tracking (sensors or algorithms and circuitry)
primary optics (optimized positioning)
secondary optics (design, materials)
absorber (materials, coatings, insulation)
structure
water feed
process regulation
turbine/engine

These are all inter-related, but also separate.

An organisation from above like this (with individuals heading different sub projects) would distinguish this group from a chat group.

eh?

-elliot

[Marcin Jakubowski]

Good points on leadership and accountability. Some notes:

1. We are working on a steam engine. We are building a lathe first, the next prototype after this work - http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/?p=1408 . I plan on tapping the wealth of experience from the visit with SACA - http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/?p=1102
General problem statement for modern steam is here under the third project - http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/?p=1586

2. The wiki has all our pages from before, with the subtopics you mention as incomplete pages: http://openfarmtech.org/index.php?title=Category:Solar_Turbine . We can use this immeidiately for designs under discussion.

3. I am reserving the Open Pario (http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/?p=1515) project management site for action once we get to hardware implementations, once there are working designs and prototypes committed.

4. We should be talking to research organization in the business - http://www.mss-csp.info/cms/front_content.php?idcat=12

Marcin

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