The U.S. oil and gas industry sparked an energy revolution a few decades ago by thinking in a different direction—literally. Horizontal drilling, combined with hydraulic fracturing, unlocked new petroleum reserves and quickly propelled the U.S. to global leadership in oil and gas.
Fervo Energy, a company headquartered in oil capital Houston, is aiming for a similar revolution in geothermal energy by borrowing a page from the oil industry’s playbook.
“Drilling is drilling,” Fervo’s Vice President of Strategy Sarah Jewett told Newsweek. “That is kind of the ‘aha’ moment that our founders really found when they started this business.”
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