This is bringing up all the feels for me... My freshman year dorm room looked out on Poe Field-- I would gaze out from my window onto students relaxing on the grass-- and I often joined them when I needed a break from studying. To see it now being put to such great use both as a research test bed and a practical solution for Princeton University is delightful. (Plus you can still go out there and take a nap on a blanket when you are procrastinating studying for spring finals... oh wait, I never did that...) Also, I'm now in the #thermalenergystorage space and this is a groundbreaking (literally) example of combining #heatpumps with thermal storage, here using the ground under Poe and Pardee Fields as a giant #heatbattery. Very exciting to see this being used for district heating for the campus. The 5 minute video in this article is worth watching, but if you don't have time, just check out these stats quantifying the 5x improvement: - The old way of heating/cooling university buildings with natural gas and steam pipes: 1 unit of energy in from natural gas, 3/4 unit energy delivered to the buildings - The new way with heat pumps and geoexchange: 1 unit of energy in from electricity, 4 units of energy delivered to the buildings
After 15 months, construction on Poe and Pardee Fields is complete and under the green is unseen infrastructure critical to Princeton’s sustainability goals: https://bit.ly/4gkjiLZ
A significant step towards sustainability!
Group Creative Director at Sensis, Advisory Board Member at USA Bobsled/Skeleton
2moThis is mind blowing, Judy Ko. I remember my first-year dorm room was just across the hallway from yours. And I used to love being the first person to trudge across Poe Field after it got blanketed with snow!