Re-strategification: apply all cunning to ensure CNESOLER gets funding.
Right now they’ve got a decent workshop and a lot of experienced personnel sitting around with not enough to keep them busy. Once I learned this I went straight to the director. I asked him how could it be and he spread his hands, gave an exasperated sigh and shook his head. I told him my new plan was to get the center funded to research Solar Fire. He liked what he heard. If anyone knows of an organization that could possibly be interested in funding the Malian National Center for Solar Energy and Renewable Energy send me some info1!
I’ve sent a budget estimate for prototyping the domestic cooker (I’m planning a variation on the Papillon solar concentrator, seen below, which is an excellent design, but some elements need to be imported. My modifications should make it locally producible and therefore a candidate for auto-diffusal).
Unfortunately I did this on Thursday, when the weekend starts on Friday and work doesn’t resume until Monday. After that we’ve got to follow protocol, but the director of CNESOLER agrees that we’ll be at AMADER’s heels.
I’ll use this weekend to try and get in touch with the ministers. My plan is to propose that while the training center gets built and equipped, we take advantage of existing infrastructure to get a jump start on R&D.
I’m also communicating as much as possible. First entry in the Tacticus is “communicate”. As such, I’m going to try and connect as many dots as I can. I’ve gone through the Solar Cookers Internation contact database for Mali and Burkina Faso, because those are the two countries in Africa where Solar Fire is active.
“Burkina Faso?” you might be saying. That’s right. After the expo went out on continental television a number of people got in touch who want to bring Solar Fire to Burkina. As such, I’m putting them in contact with one another and the active solar elements in BF, and hopefully together we can formulate a game plan. Note: they’ll be doing it with only over-the-net support, as I can’t go support them in person… if anyone is available to go to Burkina Faso and wants to help, we can get you trained up either in Europe, or in Mali and you can be on your way.
I’ll use this weekend to try and get in touch with the ministers. My plan is to propose that while the training center gets built and equipped, we take advantage of existing infrastructure to get a jump start on R&D.
I’m also communicating as much as possible. First entry in the Tacticus is “communicate”. As such, I’m going to try and connect as many dots as I can. I’ve gone through the Solar Cookers Internation contact database for Mali and Burkina Faso, because those are the two countries in Africa where Solar Fire is active.
“Burkina Faso?” you might be saying. That’s right. After the expo went out on continental television a number of people got in touch who want to bring Solar Fire to Burkina. As such, I’m putting them in contact with one another and the active solar elements in BF, and hopefully together we can formulate a game plan. Note: they’ll be doing it with only over-the-net support, as I can’t go support them in person… if anyone is available to go to Burkina Faso and wants to help, we can get you trained up either in Europe, or in Mali and you can be on your way.
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