#58: Building Energy Resilience in the Arctic & Elsewhere
About this episode
Justine Yu discusses the Mobile Insulation System for Energy Reduction and its impact on energy resilience in the Arctic.
As the Department of War increases its focus on the Arctic, ensuring our forces can operate effectively in one of the world's harshest environments has become a critical priority. From energy and infrastructure to the simple challenge of keeping equipment from freezing, the region’s demands require new and creative solutions, including the Mobile Insulation System for Energy Reduction (MISER). Justine Yu, a research architect with ERDC’s Construction Engineering Research Laboratory, discusses MISER’s development, its deployment to the Army, and the impact it and similar technologies can have on maximizing and protecting energy in austere environments. Topics include how and why MISER was developed (4:23), the importance of a blanket-like system such as MISER for equipment operations in the Arctic (5:16), and results and feedback from MISER’s recent deployment and testing in Alaska (6:11). We also discuss the Arctic Infrastructure Research Group, of which Yu is a part (1:36), and some of the group’s shared solutions (2:28). Watch a video of this podcast on our website at PowerofERDCPodcast.org/58-Resilient-Energy-In-The-Arctic_video.
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