Nirvana’s Thermoacoustic Power System, TAPS™, converts heat into electricity, cooling, heating, and hot water using a near-solid-state platform with no compressors, no refrigerants, and near-zero moving parts.
Built on more than $100 million of advanced thermoacoustic power research
originally developed for long-duration, mission-critical space applications.
Advanced by Stanford engineers and thermoacoustic experts to transform deep-space energy technology into a scalable commercial platform.
Nirvana was formed to commercialize advanced thermoacoustic Stirling technology with rights to key SRI, PARC, and NASA-related intellectual property.
Designed to deliver distributed power, cooling, heating, and thermal management for data centers, defense, and mission-critical infrastructure.
Nirvana’s TAPS™ platform uses thermoacoustic Stirling technology to convert virtually any heat source into electricity or deliver refrigerant-free cooling, heating, and hot water using a single scalable architecture.
AI data centers are creating unprecedented demand for reliable power and thermal management. Grid interconnection delays, rising energy costs, liquid-cooling complexity, and infrastructure constraints are forcing operators to search for distributed, behind-the-meter solutions.
AI electricity demand is accelerating as data centers deploy higher-density compute infrastructure.
Interconnection timelines are stretching years, delaying new capacity and increasing project risk.
Data centers are shifting toward complex, high-maintenance cooling systems as rack densities increase.
Operators need modular, distributed solutions that can scale with demand and operate continuously.
Nirvana’s thermoacoustic platform can be configured across major commercial markets, enabling distributed power generation, refrigerant-free heat pumps, cryocooling, defense and remote power, aerospace, mobility, residential systems, and advanced industrial applications.
Distributed electricity from heat sources including natural gas, hydrogen, JP-8, waste heat, and solar thermal.
Compressor-free, refrigerant-free heating, cooling, and hot water for homes and buildings.
Deep cooling for quantum computing, space, semiconductors, advanced sensors, and scientific systems.
Quiet, fuel-flexible, ruggedized power and thermal management for field and expeditionary environments.
Nirvana is designed for data center operators seeking scalable distributed power, refrigerant-free cooling, lower maintenance, and improved uptime. TAPS can be deployed modularly and daisy-chained as power and cooling demand increases.
Deploy one unit, then scale to many as compute loads and thermal demand grow.
Designed for 24/7 mission-critical environments with reduced maintenance requirements.
Supports electricity, cooling, heating, and hot water from a single platform architecture.
Remote monitoring, command, control, and optimization through connected software systems.
TAPS uses thermoacoustic Stirling technology to convert thermal energy into high-amplitude acoustic waves. Those pressure waves can drive a linear alternator for electricity or support refrigerant-free cooling and thermal management.
Nirvana is targeting materially lower lifecycle cost through a combination of lower price per kW, fewer moving parts, reduced maintenance, long operating life, and scalable modular deployment.
Nirvana is working with strategic partners across data centers, defense, residential heat pumps,
cryocooling, manufacturing, and advanced thermal systems to bring TAPS™ into large-scale markets.
Whether you're scaling AI infrastructure, deploying expeditionary power, or upgrading residential HVAC — talk to our team about how Nirvana's solid-state platform fits your roadmap.
30%+
Conversion Efficiency
20–30+
Year Design Life
Zero
Refrigerants
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