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Beard: Using hydrogen for home heating is a facepalm compared to geothermal
“Every time I read a, an article, for instance, that's talking about you know, how we're sure we're going to heat homes with hydrogen. I literally, I mean, it's a facepalm moment, right? Because geothermal is just so much easier to do than that, right? And so, …”
Beard: Using geothermal baseload merely to mine battery lithium is a distraction
“And so, when I see geothermal in the media as a lithium play, really, I mean, if you look at it, if you back up and look at that, what you're thinking is, oh, ok, good, we'll use this clean, awesome, ubiquitous, baseload energy source to mine lithium to make b…”
Beard: Next-gen geothermal is close to enabling baseload clean power globally
“And the idea that we could do that, and we're on the cusp of being able to do that, is, is a really amazing thought. Because literally then, you're talking about being able to place You know, regional geothermal power plants as a firm, reliable, weather-secure…”
Beard: No startup can deploy cost-competitive hot dry rock geothermal today
“Could we go and do a, an economically feasible geothermal anywhere hot dry rock system in Illinois right now? No, probably not. I mean, I don't think you could find a startup that would tell you with a straight face that they could, you know, that they had a c…”