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We visualize optimized networks to help clean energy developers serve sustainable growth demand.
We spatially link projects to value creation, visualizing where high reward meets high impact. Enabling the buildout of integrated infrastructure to reduce costs, thereby accelerating the energy and carbon transition.
[ BECAUSE ENVIRONMENTAL
SUSTAINABILITY REQUIRES
FINANCIAL SUSTAINABILITY. ]
[ GEOTHERMAL AND WASTE HEAT REUSE ]
TerraNexum QGO is our evolving platform for scaling out geothermal energy, carbon sequestration, and high-value infrastructure through co-locating synergistic projects.
QGO now serves our first data product, minimal routes for thermal energy cascades at building resolution for 14 of 50 states.
[ NATURE-BASED - BIOMASS - BIOGENIC ADSORPTION ]
Reuters recently reported that a global carbon market valued at $949B exists today, with only 8% of that within all of North America.
Let's grow our carbon market in ways that contribute holistically to sustainability. For healthier ecosystems and communities, brought closer to nature.
WHO
Who uses QGO?
Developers and Investors: Looking for profitable sustainable investment opportunities with integrated infrastructure and comprehensive project planning.
Sustainability Professionals: Needing tools to identify, analyze, and visualize interconnected sustainable projects.
Communities and Local Governments: Seeking to implement sustainable projects and achieve economic growth.
We aim to facilitate the energy and carbon transition by providing a comprehensive, data-driven platform for project development and cost optimization. Our goal: to visualize how clean energy and associated projects can be high-reward and high-impact.
QGO is designed to identify, co-locate, optimize, and visualize profitable sustainable projects within a user-defined area, particularly those in geothermal energy given its high potential for positive impacts.
WHAT
QGO's Color Coding
Green: potential sources of clean energy.
Yellow: where fuels are burned to produce energy.
Red: heights indicate the largest annual emissions.
Key Features
1. Project Identification: QGO will use a wide selection of economic, social, and environmental data to find value-generating sustainable projects.
2. Resource Mapping: The goal is to highlight the people and resources able to maximize benefits for both people and nature, considering available assets, infrastructure, and natural areas.
3. Integrated Infrastructure: QGO exists to visualize the interconnectedness of sustainable development -how projects can be co-located, interconnected, and optimized for synergy and efficiency wherever possible.
4. Profitability Analysis: We couple projects with high-value sources such as data centers, in high demand but facing water and energy challenges. US DoE and NREL cost models will provide added confidence.
5. Data-Driven Insights: Generative AI on sourced data can provide insights regarding legal and regulatory considerations such as permitting, mineral and surface rights for potential projects.
HOW
QGO is designed to maximize energy and resource flows over networks that are quite large. We identify the networks first, then we can optimize relevant quantities over those networks. This approach supports QGOs 3 functions:
1) to display value-generating sustainable project possibilities,
2) to highlight the people and resources that would make suggested projects profitable based on a community's economic, social, and environmental needs, and
3) to optimize the layout of projects to provide an integrated infrastructure.
QGO is designed to calculate what is needed to zero out the emissions within an area while improving the economic, human, and natural value in that area.
MISSION
POSSIBLE.
Through our work, we redefine what is possible.
If it is within the laws of physics and human capability, if knowledge, technology, and funding exists somewhere in the world, then "impossible" becomes a logistics problem.
A solvable problem. On its way to being solved.
SEE THE
POSSIBILITIES.
What we aim to accomplish through QGO. Since if we can see it, it's better than just imagining it. We just might do it.
[ THE PEOPLE RESPONSIBLE ]
These are the people at TerraNexum, committed to solving sustainable and inclusive growth. A significant challenge for this decade, according to McKinsey.
Founders
Dahl Winters, CEO [LinkedIn]
Loren Winters, Education and Outreach
Oscar Quezada, Energy and Geoscience
Thomas Bogdan, Climate Science/Federal Projects
Interns - Open Projects
The following projects were developed according to each intern's skills and interests to advance their experiential learning. We are thankful for their open-source contributions:
Alyson Westfall - Environmental Science
Shrila Esturi - Carbon Mineralization/CCS
Anish Jahagirdar - Quantum Optimization
Annika Subramanian - Fluoridation Detection
Blake Layton - Sentiment Analysis
Henry Adams - Visualizing the Energy Grid
[ THE PROGRAMS RESPONSIBLE ]
TerraNexum has received committed venture funds from AngelList, available when our open funding round closes. We are thankful for our participation in the following startup programs, providing in-kind support to offset about $400,000 of cloud expenses, not counting software discounts, training, and events:
Google for Startups - Cloud AI
Microsoft for Startups
AWS Activate
NVIDIA Inception
We have also been a registered renewable energy contractor with C-PACE since 2022. We also have members registered with the following organizations important for the advancement of geothermal energy:
Geothermal Rising
Society for Exploration Geophysicists
