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A thermal-storage and grid-flexibility platform with patented IP and no incumbent.
A cheap, defined POC turns it into a licensable, royalty-generating asset.
There is a category of thermal IP with no incumbent.
Every building's heating and cooling runs the same antiquated logic: the thermostat triggers, the compressor fires, you pay peak rates at the worst hour of the day.
We patented a device that sits in-line between any thermostat and any HVAC system, intercepts the signal, and serves demand from stored thermal energy banked when power is cheap. The thermostat never knows it's there. Any system, any manufacturer, no equipment replacement.
We call it the Thermal Proxy — keystone of a 400+-claim thermal patent portfolio (8 provisionals filed; Matthew Gaba, named inventor).
This is thermal storage as grid flexibility — the asset class capital is chasing as the grid hits a capacity wall. The core architectural position is, today, unoccupied.
The Thermal Proxy.
- —The store sits in-line, intercepts the thermostat, and serves demand from banked energy. The thermostat doesn't know it's there.
- —Universal: any thermal source in, any distribution out (forced-air or hydronic), insertable on any existing system. No rip-and-replace.
- —Fires the compressor only when it must — otherwise the building runs on stored energy.
Interception controllers exist (but have no storage); passive PCM exists (but has no interception or scheduling). We are the only architecture doing interception + dedicated thermal-storage dispatch together.
+ Storage
Modeled across 40 US metros.
One defined test turns a modeled result into a licensable asset.
Build and instrument a real unit
Measure performance across market and climate conditions, and feed it back to validate the model.
Lock the IP
Convert the provisionals plus an attorney freedom-to-operate opinion.
Mid-six-figures. Small money, disproportionate effect on what the IP is worth.
Thermal storage as grid flexibility is the thesis.
The grid is hitting a capacity wall — electrification and new high-density load are outrunning generation and transmission.
Demand flexibility IS grid capacity: every kilowatt shifted off-peak is headroom that didn't require new generation or transmission. The grid's biggest new capacity demand is AI data centers — flexible buildings free exactly the capacity they're scrambling for.
This is licensable IP, not a hardware company to scale — it monetizes through OEM and operator licensing.
The right partner is one whose network already owns the counterparties — the HVAC OEMs, grid-services operators, and industrial thermal players who would license or co-develop this.
A platform, not a single claim.
Thermal Proxy
— the storage-arbitrage keystone.
Geothermal Veining
— geothermal without the drill rig: high-pressure injection fractures the earth and fills it with thermally-conductive grout in a single pass, laying conductive veins shallow and fast — a fraction of the time and cost of conventional drilling (industry-agnostic — a cross-industry wildcard).
Universal Delivery Interface
— one outdoor unit feeds any indoor distribution: forced-air, hydronic, or radiant.
Enclosure Geometry
— the unit's shape does passive thermal work (radiative cooling, convective draft).
Modular Retrofit Shell
— a bolt-on shell that upgrades any existing AC unit, no replacement.
Thermal Cladding
— a high-emissivity skin that sheds heat passively.
Integration Patent
— ties the modules into one defensible platform.
Direct-to-Chip Thermal Arbitrage
— the newest; points the storage method at liquid coolant loops (data-center-facing).