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Building a 3D model of an abandoned mine: visualization and measurement
During 2021, KETL team member Jacob Chizek built a three dimensional solid model of the Negaunee’s Mather mine, facilitating our detailed design and analysis of a PUSH system. The model was important for many reasons, but most importantly, Jacob’s work let the team create more precise estimates of the mine’s size and form. The increased…
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KETL2020 @ COP26
Hear my colleague Shardul Tiwari @HuskyShardul moderate the panel discussion of the Youth Environmental Alliance in Higher Education (#YEAH Network) at #COP26! Along with Michigan Technological University’s alumna Alexis Pascaris and other guests discussing Optimism–which we need desperately–in climate action and creating positive change! #ClimateHeritage n https://unfccc-cop26.streamworld.de/webcast/youth-environmental-alliance-in-higher-education-v n We’ll post more about #COP26 when Shardul…
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Socio-Technological Guided Enhancement of Power Infrastructure Resilience
The National Science Foundation awarded KETL member Chelsea Schelly a 2020 EAGER research and development grant. Her co-PIs include Mostafa Sahraei Ardakani, Ge Ou, and Jianli Chen. “Socio-Technological Guided Enhancement of Power Infrastructure Resilience” is an examination of why those people who are most likely to be harmed by the failure of the electrical grid…
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Learn by Doing: Michigan Tech’s Alternative Energy Enterprise forms a Pumped Hydro Team
The PUSH team sponsored an undergraduate research group during 2020-2021, the Pumped Hydro AEE Team. Team members Noah Baliat, Shaelyn Koleber, Alex Wilt, Emilia Fanelli, Steven Sweet, Hayden Augustyniak, and Trevor VanDyke set out to develop a GIS tool to map the areas of highest electrical loads in the United States in comparison with overlays…
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Making and Storing Energy In Mines
Authors: Maia Madrid, Jordan Kelley, Jessica Applin n Environmental and Energy Policy program n Social Sciences Department n Michigan Technological University nn The Frankenmine’s infographic below is designed to explain how abandoned mines could be used for geothermal energy purposes in combination with energy storage purposes. There are abandoned mine shafts in many areas throughout…
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Keweenaw Energy Transition Lab: a new collaborative @Michigan Technological University
We are thrilled to announce the launch of the new Keweenaw Energy Transitions Lab at Michigan Technological University. The lab is the organizational hub for our transdisciplinary team that emerged from our PUSH-UP project–Pumped Underground Storage Hydro in the Upper Peninsula. PUSH systems are very promising site-specific solutions to the challenge of electrical storage during…