I'm actually planning on attending UCLA, they have a great electrical engineering program there. I'm still going through highschool at the moment along with starting some community college courses next semester.
the actual idea for the project was to get my something to put on a resume no one else could. I just found 3 other people who had my same logical thought and understanding of how things work.
We are still deciding on the fuel we will use, and I'm thinking hydrogen would be best. I don't care about the environment at all, i just think that it would be easier to maintain the turbine with a clean burning fuel source going through it.
also, we are thinking about refining our own hydrogen using a cell that we have been designing.
My part of the project is mostly electrical and computer. Ive been working on ways to controll the whole thing remotely via computer, from intake, speed, gas injection, ignition. also monitoring rpm, wind velocity, video, emissions, and efficiency.
I have been working alot on programming i would need, as well as what i would have to have to run everything remotely. I will probably build a separate small power computer that i will mount somewhere near it and controll that computer remotely to run servos and diagnostic. I figure running one ethernet wire and running it from the network would be easier than running a wire for each thing.
i have also been working on a way to make it more efficient, I'm thinking the turbine will power an electrical generator that will put some power back into creating hydrogen.