RES.ENV-007 | January IAP 2025 | Non-Credit

Geothermal Energy Networks: Transforming Our Thermal Energy System

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Session 1-2: Carbon Reduction Pathways for Building Stocks (PDF)
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Session 1-3: Health Impacts of Methane ("Natural") Gas Systems
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Session 2-1: An Ecological View of the Energy Transition (PDF)
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Session 2-2: How GENs Can Meet Environmental Justice Priorities (PDF)
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Session 2-3: How GENs Arose out of Moms Organizing to Protect Their Children's Future (PDF)
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Session 3-3: The (Geo) Thermal Energy Networks: U.S. Policy Landscape (PDF)
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Session 3-4: Potential Role for GENs in the Massachusetts Natural Gas Transition (PDF)
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Session 4-1: Networked Geothermal: The European Experience
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Session 4-2: Utility Perspective on Scaling GENs (PDF)
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Session 4-3: Business Models for Community Networked Geothermal Heating and Cooling (PDF)
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Session 4-4: Expanding GENs at a Global Scale (PDF)
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Session 5-1: Introduction to Geothermal Heat Pumps (PDF)
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Session 5-2: Differences Between Geothermal Heat Pumps and GEN (PDF)
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Session 5-3: Introduction to Design of GENs (PDF)
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Session 6-2: Emerging Code & Standards for Ambient Temperature Loops (PDF)
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Session 6-3: Introduction to Drilling Geothermal Boreholes (PDF)
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Session 6-4: Constructing and Commissioning of a GEN (PDF)
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Session 7-2: Learning from Geothermal Energy Networks (PDF)
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Session 7-3: Techno-Economic Modeling of GENs with HEATNETS Model (PDF)
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Session 8-1: ATL District Systems Overview (PDF)
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Session 8-2: Framingham, Massachusetts UTEN Pilot Project (PDF)
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Session 8-3: Thermal Energy Network Evolution of the Penn South Community in Manhattan (PDF)
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Session 8-4: Introduction to the MIT Thermal Energy Networks (PDF)

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