Since we are all Red Raiders, I thought I would share my Red Raider buddy's story here.
He graduated from Tech about 4 years ago and then spent some time in the construction industry. Then he started a company about a year and a half ago to help solve a problem he noticed during his intern days working at the Mustang Power plant over in Denver City.
Basically, the power industry is set in their ways when it comes to how they are generating power. It consumes a lot (and I mean A LOT) of water to cool down the process and the water turns to vapor.
There are some estimations that the Mustang Power plant will use up so much water in the next 10 years, that they will have to start trucking or piping in more water to supply the town with enough water to function. As a west Texas boy with a farming family, it definitely is a cause for concern.
He came up and patented a closed cooling system to recycle and reuse the water so that it's not "wasted" in the power plant application but also for heat rejection in data centers, and several other applications.
Anyway, if you have a minute and want to look at what they are doing, here's the link:
http://www.autryindustrial.com/
Feel free to share with whoever. I know he would appreciate it.
Thanks
He graduated from Tech about 4 years ago and then spent some time in the construction industry. Then he started a company about a year and a half ago to help solve a problem he noticed during his intern days working at the Mustang Power plant over in Denver City.
Basically, the power industry is set in their ways when it comes to how they are generating power. It consumes a lot (and I mean A LOT) of water to cool down the process and the water turns to vapor.
There are some estimations that the Mustang Power plant will use up so much water in the next 10 years, that they will have to start trucking or piping in more water to supply the town with enough water to function. As a west Texas boy with a farming family, it definitely is a cause for concern.
He came up and patented a closed cooling system to recycle and reuse the water so that it's not "wasted" in the power plant application but also for heat rejection in data centers, and several other applications.
Anyway, if you have a minute and want to look at what they are doing, here's the link:
http://www.autryindustrial.com/
Feel free to share with whoever. I know he would appreciate it.
Thanks
