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Beard: Syndicates must fund five sequential geothermal projects to avoid data-wait death
“We should not be waiting for five years of operational data. The reason he needs that is because he, you know, he needs to get funding for a second project, and that's why we need to fund five outright. Bam, bam, bam, bam. Stamp them out one after the other. I…”
Beard: Scaling geothermal rapidly requires leveraging the entire oil and gas industry
“If we want to go fast, and we want to do this at scale, we're going to have to leverage that entire industry.”
Beard: Geothermal scaling is a human resources challenge, not a technology problem
“Really this comes down in my view To a human resources problem, not a technology problem.”
Beard: Upfront subsurface exploration costs block startup geothermal project financing
“So geothermal has exploration risks, so understanding the resource before you start Developing a project, and you have to understand those well enough to get a project financed, and that is a deal breaker for a lot of projects, particularly for startup compani…”