Shine Energy Systems Inc.

It has actually been long enough that I’m getting people telling me I need to update the blog.  I have a tonne of ideas I’ve been trying to get down, but in the quest for completion, they never leave the draft stages.  I will just dump what would likely have been 5 0r 6 blog postings in to one and elaborate once a chance is presented.

We had a very busy fall.  Part of it was due to drill rig delays which bunched our schedule up in to a few busy weeks before the holiday season.  Now that it is the New Year, we are finding some time to catch up on a few things.

I did take time to take the CGC’s Commercial Designer’s course at BCIT in the late fall.  An excellent course with only four of us in it.   I find the knowledge you learn from others’ experiences in these settings surpasses the course material itself. Note there is no Commercial Designer’s accreditation at this stage in Canada.   The coarse is truly for those wanting to learn.

A couple of takeaways that we will be putting in to our own company policies for 2010:

• switch to propylene glycol over methanol mainly due to our staff health and safety outweighing the minor drop in efficiencies between the heat transfer mixtures.
• we will never leave our vertical pipe unpressurized for any length of time due to the concern of collapsing pipes from the grout pressure in the borehole annulus.
• plumbing flow gauges to our purge cart and plumbing vertical bores to confirm loop design is achieved.
• on a commercial scale it gets more difficult to identify nonsense that the “un-user friendly” software tends to spill out.  Keep an eye on this.
• and tons of business development concepts that we will be pursuing.

Happy New Year everyone.