At the end of 2022 I was given the opportunity to sit down Dr. Jane Meliathe CEO and co-founder of Harvest thermally. They had announced a deal with BlockPower, a Brooklyn-based company that does electrification retrofits, thus issuing press releases. I get countless of them, but most of them are pretty boring. Melia is not boring at all and I was very happy to have the chance to talk to her.
Melia holds three UK, French and US passports and has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area since 2004. Her original PhD in fluid mechanics led her to work in wind energy, but she soon jumped over to the business side of the world. work on business strategy.
Melia’s PhD was on the flow of fluids through series of obstacles, something she applied to wind turbines, doing computational fluid dynamics studies to optimize wind farms. Her dissertation focused on the Bhopal gas disaster of 1984, in which a Union Carbide plant released a toxic cloud of methyl isocyanate that injured 574,366 people and killed 2,259. Previous modeling for gas discharges spectacularly failed to account for the actual flow of the gases. Obstacles would cause mixing and thus reduction of toxicity, but in fact vortices behind buildings caused concentration of the gases.
But Melia had a burning desire to both solve her own home heating problems and build a business around the solution. And so Harvest Thermal was founded in 2017.
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