Robert Foster of the Southwest Research Center at New Mexico State University gathered a group of “Engineers Without Borders” at Zomeworks on December 16th, 2007 for a workshop on photovoltaics and a pizza lunch in the shop. 

The workshop seemed so perfectly aligned with our work at Zomeworks that I prodded Jeannette Moore into gathering the group again on January 26th, 2008 for a closer look at our Double Play buildings.  This was followed by lunch at Carolyn’s restaurant on South Coors and a trip out to Pajarito Mesa to see Carlos Proffit’s house and solar electric heating system.  The water line was frozen, an indication of the cold this January.

Carlos’ talk of his twenty years of work at his place and his great progress along with the solar efforts of Ron Orozco and Chuck Marken make Pajarito Mesa a suitable end for a solar pilgrimage – even more so for me than the much advertised Mesa Del Sol industrial park directly across the river with its grand empty boulevard and imminent State government financed invasion of sun starved Germans.

Steve Baer

January 31, 2008