An underground heat exchanger that is location independent, can be scaled to meet demand, tailored to deliver energy needs in the form of heat and electricity. Sounds too good to be true, but this in fact is the aim of the Eavor loop technology. I get to sit down with Christian Besoiu, a Technology Development Engineer for Eavor to talk about their "product" the Eavor loop and how they plan to scale it to meet global needs.
Eavor doesn't see their solution to Geothermal as just a well design, but as a product that can be made to order based on the energy demand of their customer. A big reason why Geothermal hasn't grown at the pace that other renewables have is due to a myriad of reasons, but one in particular, Geographical location has hindered the worldwide deployment of Geothermal. Eavor aims to use their Eavor loop technology to help scale Geothermal and reduce costs down to 0.05 cents/kwh to be competitive with other renewable energy sources.
Eavor
https://www.linkedin.com/company/eavor/
Christian Besoiu
https://www.linkedin.com/in/christian-besoiu/
Christian's Book recommendation
The Beginning of Infinity by David Deutsch
JRG Energy
GRC
https://grc2022.mygeoenergynow.org/registration
CORE Knowledge
https://www.linkedin.com/company/core-geothermal
Nick Cestari