Unique conversations
Ted Barnes is Senior Director of Mobility at GTI Energy.
GTI Energy embraces a vision for integrated, low-carbon, low-cost energy systems that leverage gases, liquids, infrastructure, and efficiency to meet the urgent challenges presented by climate change and global energy access. To fully comprehend these words, there is nothing like a visit to its eighteen acres of facilities close to Chicago, to take in the depth and breadth of what goes on at these specialized labs with equipment for design, testing, and analysis of advanced energy technologies. PUF's Executive Editor Steve Mitnick and Editor-In-Chief Lori Burkhart were fortunate to pass inside the gates of GTI Energy to view the future of energy. We engaged with scientists and engineers to better understand several of their projects.
PUF's Steve Mitnick: What are we seeing out here today?
Ted Barnes: This is the heart of GTI Energy's Hydrogen Technology Center — the Hydrogen Pad. We built the Hydrogen Pad, concrete walls, fireproof doors, gas detection, flame detection, and all this infrastructure, so we could safely and repeatably do testing on a wide variety of technologies. The reason we have this out here is we test with a lot of high-pressure, flammable gases.