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Cracking the Geothermal Code - Ep 58: John Redfern

Cleaning Up: Leadership in an Age of Climate Change

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The Secret Sauce of Solar Power

In the middle of the day, when you've got lots of super cheap, almost free solar power, you let that come into the system and you're turning the everloop down. But during the time the everloop was turned down, it's saving power for the evening or the night when something else isn't working. The key to remember is that this massive radiator down under the ground, if you follow the molecule of the water as it went through the loop, it would take into eight to 10 hours just to do that, operating a base load. When we shut in the water, as you pointed out, it gets hotter. And so the heat keeps flowing into the subsurf

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