• How the Earth's superheated innards can transform Britain (and the world)

  • Oct 29 2024
  • Length: 59 mins
  • Podcast

How the Earth's superheated innards can transform Britain (and the world)

  • Summary

  • You are currently directly above an energy source that is clean, available all day long, and – at least at our current Kardashev level – all but limitless. Naturally, the British government has approximately zero interest in it. But they will soon, because transformational geothermal energy is getting closer.


    The main obstacle, currently, is the difficulty of harnessing the extreme heat that one finds several miles below the Earth's surface. It melts electronics and resists the creation of pipework, meaning that it's very difficult to sustainably pump fluid in and out.


    Our latest guest is John Clegg, a technologist and geothermal expert who is making progress in developing high-heat electronics. John joins us in our orbital space pub to tell us about the new frontiers in geothermal, the best way of making it work for Britain, and the most mind-boggling engineering feat in the history of Dorset.


    Learn more about Hephae Energy Technology, of which John is CTO, via their website, or subscribe to their monthly newsletter here.


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