I have almost achieved my tanning goal! We have gotten quite a bit of time in the sun. On Tuesday we woke up bright and early to go sailing. We had three boats split between our group with a teacher on board each. It was a gorgeous day, but not very windy. We sailed to the right of the Poetto beach each switching off steering the boat and managing the jib. I'm proud to say no one on my boat was hit by the boom during a tack! Yes I'm showing off my sailing lingo because that's pretty much all I learned that day. We stopped twice for a swim in the beautiful water and headed back around lunch time. The rest of the day was spent on the beach. A very sunburnt group returned to the dorm in the evening.
Today we had another technical site visit. This site has three landfills, an anaerobic digester, composting, a sewage plant, photovoltaic power stations and a wind farm within its boundaries. One landfill is filled and closed, one is almost full, and the last one is ready to be used once it is needed. All those white dots above the landfill? Tons and tons of birds.
The biogas collected from the landfill is stored, the methane is extracted and then converted to be sent to the grid. The biogas is stored in these awesome ginormous bouncy balls. I'm pretty sure that's the technical word the chemist used.
The anaerobic digester receives organic waste and uses leachate and wastewater that has been processed to produce methane and carbon dioxide. The methane is extracted from the water, converted and also sent off to the grid.
This company sells all of the energy that it produces and buys back whatever they need because it is more economical to do so. The composting area was similar to the site that we have already seen - except we received dust masks to help with the horrific smell!
Unfortunately, the sewage plant was under construction so we were not able to view it.
We ended the day by visiting some mountain hikes and grabbing ice cream! I guess you could say it was an alright day.
Audriana
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