Origin Earth Energy’s Post

The transition to clean energy needs to accelerate. In our March Insights, we look at the historically slow rate of prior energy transitions and the critical lesson of leverage from other global industries.   A few takeaways: 📶 Cell phones and the internet leveraged infrastructure and regulation to connect the world. 🚗 Automobiles leveraged supply chains and skills to transform transportation. ⚡In energy, we need a technology that can leverage the fossil fuel industry to accelerate clean energy deployment. https://lnkd.in/dnvd4X2X

We need substantially more energy than anyone thought, and we need it soon. For the past few decades, energy demand has been mostly flat. But three forces are driving demand to spike: AI computing, crypto mining, and the electrification of everything. This spike is just the beginning. Geothermal is the perfect stopgap solution. It’s a safe, well-understood tech that’s been around for decades. The main hurdle to widespread adoption has been the high cost of development. Jigar Shah and his team at U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) get it. Founders get it too. Companies like Zanskar Geothermal & Minerals, Inc. Quaise Energy, and Fervo Energy are developing new tools to solve this longtime challenge.