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Taiwan's energy dilemma
Yeh-Tang "Ricky" Huang and I discuss the struggle to build renewables, the nuclear debate, and the promise of geothermal power.
 • David Roberts
1:09:45
What's the deal with closed-loop geothermal?
I talk to Eavor’s Jeanine Vany and Mark Fitzgerald about the engineering breakthroughs that could finally make geothermal geography-agnostic.
 • David Roberts
1:05:03
Super-deep geothermal drilling ... with microwaves
I talk with Quaise CEO Carlos Araque about a technology that could persuade the oil and gas industry to drill for heat instead of fuel.
 • David Roberts
44:40
Ann Arbor's experiment with a new kind of utility
Missy Stults explains Ann Arbor's novel plan to build a second, clean-energy utility alongside its incumbent.
 • David Roberts
1:05:27
Trying to bring geothermal heat pumps to scale
Kathy Hannun on Dandelion’s Swedish drilling rigs, custom heat pumps, and a new 1,500-home partnership.
 • David Roberts
1:02:50
Catching up with enhanced geothermal
A deep dive into Fervo's geothermal breakthrough: slashing costs, scaling up, and uniting the political spectrum behind always-on clean power
 • David Roberts
1:09:42
Thermal energy networks are the next big thing
Could gas utilities transform into "thermal utilities"? Here's how networked heat pumps could give them a whole new business model instead of going…
 • David Roberts
1:22:57
A few pictures & stories from Iceland
Here are a few of the places I visited in Iceland and the clever stuff they are working on.
 • David Roberts
What's the deal with Iceland?
I talk with Halla Hrund Logadóttir of Iceland's National Energy Authority about the country's history with geothermal, its current energy mix, and it…
 • David Roberts
48:45
Enhanced geothermal power is finally a reality
A decade ago, engineer Tim Latimer moved from oil & gas into geothermal power with a plan to apply the latest technologies from the former to the…
 • David Roberts
1:20:59
What's going on with geothermal?
A conversation about the state of the geothermal industry -- the investment, the startups, the new consortia and initiatives -- with Jamie Beard…
 • David Roberts
1:06:40
The extraordinary potential value of enhanced geothermal power
Geothermal power has conventionally been viewed as a baseload, always-on resource, like nuclear. But new research suggests it could play a much more…
 • David Roberts
1:04:46
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