Thomas H. Colledge

Assistant Professor of Engineering Design
The Pennsylvania State University

Mailing Address

213 Hammond Building
University Park, PA 16802

Office

213 Hammond Building

Phone

814-863-1527

Fax

814-863-7229

E-Mail

thc100@psu.edu

Also:

Faculty Advisor—Engineers for a Sustainable World
Editor-in-Chief—International eJournal for Service Learning in Engineering

Alternative energy system for computer building

Nueva Esperanza, El Salvador

A concrete block building along with 35 computers were donated to the community of Nueva Esperanza by the Spanish government. However, the cost of electricity in the community was $0.38/kW-hr. and the temperature in the building would climb to over 113 Fahrenheit. A team of Penn State students, along with the community and the NGO Voices on the Border designed an alternative energy system using anaerobic digesters which utilized the animal wastes as feed to produce methane gas.

updated: 30 January 2005

thc100@psu.edu

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Thomas H. Colledge

Assistant Professor of Engineering Design The Pennsylvania State University

Alternative energy system for computer building

Assistant Professor of Engineering Design
The Pennsylvania State University