Energy transition is blocked by technology, not politics, says Araque
Carlos Araque · HIBT Lab! Quaise Energy: Carlos Araque · Aug 4, 2022 · at 9:08
Carlos Araque, co-founder and CEO of deep geothermal startup Quaise Energy, explains the core conviction that led him to leave Schlumberger and transition into clean-tech innovation.
0:00 / 0:16exact quote · 16.8s
720p mp4 · rendered on demand · StarZero watermark
“So I became convinced that the reason we don't transition energy is first and foremost because we do not have as a species that technology to do it. Politics play a role, but it is really a technological gap first and foremost.”
quote is from the automated transcript, cleaned for reading: filler sounds and stutters are removed, nothing is rephrased. names can be misheard (the analysis reads context, assessments check outside sources). how →
More from Carlos Araque
Solar and wind alone would match CO2's ecological harm, says Araque
“I think it would, but the ecological consequences would be just as bad as putting CO₂ into the atmosphere.”
Araque: Only fission, fusion, and deep geothermal can scale to humanity's needs
“So when you look at that, I think there's only three things that can do it. The first one is indeed nuclear fission. As you just mentioned, it has the scalability and the power density to do it. The second one is fusion, which is what the sun does, but it's st…”
Araque: Quaise Can Reach 20-Kilometer Depths to Unlock Global Geothermal
“So we think we can get to 20 kilometers. This is twice as deep as we've ever drilled as humans, and precisely what's needed to make geothermal totally global and ubiquitous.”