Prime Movers Lab Webinar Preview: Geothermal — Drilling for Clean Energy
Tune in to hear from our expert panelists, two geothermal startup CEOs and a technology policy researcher, on why geothermal energy is a compelling solution to clean baseload power. Register here.
Next Wednesday (11/17) at 3 pm EST/12 pm PST, my partner Carly Anderson and I will be hosting a webinar on the often overlooked — but full of untapped potential — form of clean energy: geothermal power. While it’s been so encouraging for our planet to see the cost of renewable energy from solar and wind come down over time, the recent energy crisis in the UK reminds us all that those forms of energy are weather-dependent. Geothermal energy comes from beneath our feet: Earth’s hot core can provide tunable dependent baseload power and will be one of the keys to unlocking a future free of fossil fuels.
Geothermal hasn’t received the love because so far the locations where it’s more readily accessible (aka geothermal springs closer to the surface) haven’t necessarily overlapped with places where we need energy (aka population centers). Today’s innovators are overcoming these problems by focusing on drilling technologies to unlock heat at any depth and cycle technologies to take advantage of heat in the absence of naturally occurring conjoined water resources.
Our expert panelists include:
Carlos Araque is CEO of Quaise Inc, an energy company working to scale geothermal to terawatts via novel deep drilling technology. Prior to Quaise, Carlos worked for 15 years at Schlumberger, one of the leading technology companies in the oil and gas industry.
Tim Latimer is the founder and CEO of Fervo Energy, an energy company that commercializes technology to develop, own, and operate geothermal assets as the dispatchable foundation to a 100% clean energy future. Tim was previously a drilling engineer with BHP who left the petroleum industry in 2015 to pursue an MBA/MS in Environment and Resources from Stanford University. Tim is a fellow at Activate and the Clean Energy Leadership Institute.
Eli Dourado is a senior research fellow at the Center for Growth and Opportunity at Utah State University. His work focuses on finding policy solutions to unblock transformative new technologies. Before joining the CGO, he was the first policy hire at Boom Supersonic (a Prime Movers Growth portfolio company) and directed the Technology Policy Program at the Mercatus Center.
For viewers who’d like to read up before the webinar — Eli has written a wonderful overview of geothermal on his blog!
Click here to register for the webinar.
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