Lev Ring

[Lev Ring @lev_ring]

A quick personal note.
My daughter Anya Ring and her co-founder John Onderdonk are launching The Lone Screen, a one-night-only online premiere platform for indie films. Limited tickets, a set start time, a live discussion forum, and a director Q&A. It’s the event night indie films deserve, rebuilt for the streaming era.

First premiere: Thursday, May 7, 6:30 PT / 8:30 CT / 9:30 ET. Film: Something Casual, directed by Brandon Buczek.
Grab a ticket, follow The Lone Screen, spread the word: https://t.co/ygbrjFmPs6
Very proud. 🎬

[Nicolas Fulghum @nicolasfulghum]

It's genuinely difficult to find a renewables system that shows more complementarity than wind and solar do in Texas.

In Europe, wind and solar show complementarity across seasons (summer - winter), but in Texas, the intra-day complementarity is something else! ☀️🍃

[Lev Ring @lev_ring]

@powerman @JigarShahDC We are ready!

[Lev Ring @lev_ring]

https://t.co/iLSisE1cgU’s-First-Commercial-Geopressured-Geothermal-System-GGS-Facility

At first, we were thinking a lot, then we were raising and raising (a lot), and now we are building and building (fast) to get revenues flowing and flowing in 2025! Super excited!

[Lev Ring @lev_ring]

@YLatynina Я может быть и не любитель CNN но

[Lev Ring @lev_ring]

@TimMLatimer I don’t know about never.. and wouldn’t be that pessimistic. We have had quite the opposite experience

[Tim Latimer @TimMLatimer]

In just one week, the Western Governors Association announced a bipartisan initiative to accelerate geothermal, the IRA could finally provide tax credit certainty, and the DOE launches a new $165m geothermal initiative.

The geothermal decade is finally all coming together y’all.

[Lev Ring @lev_ring]

Real leadership! Huge potential in solving energy transition challenge.

[Lev Ring @lev_ring]

@c_r_spears Looks like we have too many doctors

[Lev Ring @lev_ring]

@TimMLatimer https://t.co/jMikS3QqON Closed Loop or EGS?

[Lev Ring @lev_ring]

@TimMLatimer @usv 10,000 wells x 10MW = 100 GW; 10 years x 100 GW = 1 TW. A lot of baseload green power and a lot of jobs!

[Lev Ring @lev_ring]

https://t.co/GcgRjMmltt

[Lev Ring @lev_ring]

@charlesmurray @TimMLatimer @JamesPsychol @kirstenmarcia To circulate working fluid through the rock it needs to have either natural permeability or artificial (fracking)
Deep is going after naturally permeable formations

[Lev Ring @lev_ring]

@charlesmurray @TimMLatimer @JamesPsychol @kirstenmarcia There are two types of geothermal systems: hydrothermal that use natural reservoirs of hot water and ones that rely on man-made or dry rock reservoirs to harvest heat

[Lev Ring @lev_ring]

@TimMLatimer And that is why we need to aggressively invest in geothermal. If we look at energy supply/demand curve geothermal is the only viable scalable alternative to replace coal by 2040

[Lev Ring @lev_ring]

@TimMLatimer @lisamurkowski @DanSimmonsEERE All times are Pacific

[Lev Ring @lev_ring]

@TimMLatimer @EggersMatt As far as lost circulation — the moment you say “we have to drill” you have to be ready to deal with drilling problems

[Lev Ring @lev_ring]

@TimMLatimer @EggersMatt I agree on absence of of government supports e.g. guaranteed loans being huge problem

[Lev Ring @lev_ring]

@TimMLatimer @EggersMatt Can you give us an example of “non obvious challenges” other than regulatory?

[Lev Ring @lev_ring]

@ericweinstein Do you know what it actually says/means?