Birch Geothermal launches with an oilfield engineer's bet on cheaper clean power
Mike Matson and his co-founders are applying subsurface oil-and-gas tools to enhanced geothermal systems as power demand rises.
By Ryan Merket · Published
Primary source: Forbes
Why it matters
Birch Geothermal is a test of whether oilfield subsurface expertise can make enhanced geothermal reliable enough for data-center-era power demand.
Mike Matson is taking Birch Geothermal into the market with a thesis that the next cost breakthrough in geothermal will come less from drilling deeper holes than from managing underground reservoirs with the discipline oil engineers have spent decades refining.…
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