The Team
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Ben Chapman is a junior studying mechanical engineering and sustainability at Olin College of Engineering in Needham, MA. He is passionate about designing and building systems that help solve environmental problems. He helped design and construct a passive walk-in freezer in Essex, VT in 2010, from which which we are adapting techniques for this project.
Carly Gayle is a senior studying environmental studies at Wellesley College. She’s passionate about sustainable agriculture and architecture, and manages Wellesley’s Edible Ecosystem Teaching Garden.
Brittany Sidway is the farm manager at Medway Community Farm. She is passionate about local food and has worked at several farms in the Boston area, and in upstate New York and British Columbia.
Monica Higgins, faculty advisor at Wellesley, is a professor of environmental engineering with expertise in life cycle impact analysis.
Jessica Townsend, faculty advisor at Olin, is a professor of mechanical engineering with expertise in thermal modeling.
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Wow Ben and Carly, this is really excellent and exciting!
love and hugs and best of luck,
Mom/Malinda
This looks like a fascinating design! Hope it will be very successful and be widely used in the future. Good Job!
What a fantastic idea! I was a caretaker at a facility that had a troublesome walk-in cooler that failed frequently before big events. I think the heat of the newly introduced food stock would overtax the cooling system. Needless to say it was always a stressful occurance.
The picture of the green and clear bottles on your page header sparked and idea for me. Could you add a small solar panel and led to light the room; and maybe put it inside the bottle stack to create a type of fresnel lens utilizing the shape of the bottom of the bottles?
I hope you have great success with your project!
Stefan Heringa