Welcome to libbywayman.blogspot.com.

For the next 9 months, this blog will document my experiences of working and living in Lesotho (“Lesootoo”, a small country surrounded by South Africa) on a renewable and distributed energy project with a group of students that I began working with last year at MIT. About 3 years ago, this group began developing a solar thermal energy technology with a fairly technologically savvy community center in Bethel, Lesotho. Throughout the past 3 years, we have been developing the technology at MIT, while working with the community in Bethel. This May, we received a grant to work with this community center to deploy this technology in 3 different applications; a school/community center, a village, and a clinic, to see which application will be more successful and self-sustaining, then to transfer the technology to the local people with whom we will be working.

For more information on our group and project, please visit http://www.solarturbinegroup.org/