“…once our city governments understand this opportunity!”
I am so thankful to be able to catch the full interview, as well as various posts from Jay Egg and Mimi (Hannah) Egg, explaining how the City of Rochester is sharing and leading in placing Thermal Energy Networking in service of a whole community!
Can I wish you all were here!?
(By the way, TENs works for cooling too.)
Already some of highest Energy Efficiency ROIs recorded by the State of Arizona have been in campus-based, thermal energy networks, TENs, before I beleive the excellent TENs term was used. NAU and I beleive U of A as well has been benefiting from campus TENs for decades.
The Leadership like those at this event and at Geothermal Rising, and the new DOE GTO ( Geothermal Office) exists now to spread these benefits from bottom to top from federal level, and city level, as we see here, to place these wonders into broader implementation!
As I am learning, geothermal ( especially low temperature kind, not the volcanic kind) is actually a kind of subset of Thermal Energy Storage. “Geothermal” has been used as an overall heading. It includes, as I was surprised to follow, actually storage of heat of all kinds, (including process waste heat and chemical and phase change material thermal batteries- which are incredibly cool, literally and figuratively) I love how the expansion of networks, as more common in geothermal, aims to capture more benefits and benefit more people:
TENs: Thermal Energy Networks.
Well more than half of all our energy demand is for thermal energy needs - cooling and heating- and much of that exists naturally in the earth or intrinsic properties of other materials. Other being Better cleaner more local materials than fossil fuels or rare earth usually needed for electric batteries.
If we can dedicate and store, aim and distribute more massive amounts of Thermal Energy, already usually wasted, extremely clean, locally produced, low embodied carbon, and directly apply that thermal energy for thermal needs, ( aka human and industrial “demands” ) we save all kinds of things.
Simultaneously, whenever, however we succeed in harvesting so much thermal inefficiency, we can effectively end up providing more electrical energy for electrical needs! In the cleanest way possible!
This has to involve civic partnership to be able to happen. Rochester did it! It’s been great to see these dedicated hard working leaders in this field, old and young together, with a lot of energy under their wings this past week at the first ever TENs Symposium.
Behind the scenes of Bryant Jones, PhD's interview with KIMT-TV at the first Thermal Energy Network Symposium in Rochester, MN!
Watch the full interview here:https://bit.ly/48StwhE
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