Climate Change and Our Buildings – How do we de-carbonize them? with Dr. James Cotton

Most of us who live in the Northern cold regions have a fundamental problem: we need to heat our homes, but we also want to reduce our carbon emissions. The good news is there is a way to do both by creating thermal networks. A thermal network is a system of insulated, underground pipes that directly distribute heat to homes and other buildings using heat generated from clean sources – even waste heat such as from pizza ovens. Rather than using their own furnaces, boilers, fireplaces or electric baseboard heaters to heat buildings, consumers would receive heat directly from a utility. In this conversation Dr. Cotton will explain how its can be done.