FSN Seminar – July 11 at 1 pm

Title: The Electric Throttle for our Energy Transition: Community Microgrids

By Art Hunter, Ph.D.

YouTube link: https://youtu.be/RpC2QYRGwfY

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Summary: 
In our climate emergency, much has been proposed to move the world off fossil fuels and into clean renewable energy. This evolution has been stated and restated from multiple sources using multiple disciplines with propaganda, myths, and confusion mixed with facts. This presentation is intended to inform with clarity and address how to decarbonize and electrify everything using microgrids. The rapid buildout of microgrids at a global scale demands an understanding of the existing electrical grid, renewable energy generators, energy efficiency, thermal heat pumps (atmospheric and geothermal), energy storage, Electric Vehicles, and complex control systems. What are the 21 advantages of community microgrids, and do they really lead the way forward technically, economically, politically, democratically, and socially?
Let’s examine the facts and what other leaders are doing.

Biography:
Dr. Art Hunter was born in Thunder Bay, attended the Royal Military College, and obtained a Ph.D. in Hypersonic Aerodynamics from Imperial College in London, England. Over six decades he has had extensive management and laboratory experience in university, government, and the private sector. Art was the project manager of Canadarm for Space Shuttle at the National Research Council and has consulted with hundreds of private sector companies undertaking Science and Technology Research and Development. He has been awarded national and international awards and published technical papers and books. He designed, built, and operated a home laboratory demonstration microgrid for the past six years. It has solar generation, energy efficiencies, Tesla Powerwall home batteries, a ground source heat pump, many IoT sensors and actuators with a sophisticated control system, and two electric vehicles. He now leads the Information Technology and communications committee for the Canadian Association for the Club of Rome in Ottawa.