On my journey, I study borehole thermal energy storage. What I focus on is taking excess heat from things like air conditioners or buildings—such as an ice rink in the summer—that require a lot of cooling demand. These things are actually exhausting a lot of thermal energy into the atmosphere. My job as a grad student is to study how we can store that heat in the ground, in the soil. Then, in a few months, later in the winter, when we have a high heating demand, we can pull that heat out and use it to supplement or help match the heating demand that we have in the winter.
On June 15th, 2023. See this statement in context.