Today Project InnerSpace announces the launch of GeoMap™ North America, a first of its kind geothermal exploration tool developed in partnership with Google focused on expanding the use and adoption of clean geothermal energy worldwide. GeoMap™ North America includes surface and subsurface data for Canada, Mexico, and the United States in this latest launch, with in-depth data for the United States based on over a million data points. Behind this collaboration is a research portfolio of more than 85 researchers working on behalf of Project InnerSpace, along with Google engineers. Using GeoMap™ North America, users can identify promising and overlooked geothermal opportunities, particularly beyond regions with known and proven geothermal resources. Importantly, the GeoMap™ North America dataset demonstrates that the United States has much more next generation geothermal potential than previously thought, in States that have not before been considered viable candidates for geothermal development. With this new release, more than 80 additional layers of surface and subsurface data were added to GeoMap™, bringing the total layers to over 150. These new layers include data relevant for exploring for natural hydrogen and lithium within geothermal systems, adding prospecting for hybrid geothermal projects to the GeoMap™ toolbox. With the newly launched ‘Site Comparison Tool,’ stakeholders can explore which of their industrial facilities are prime candidates for conversion to geothermal heat, or which military bases have the best geothermal resources. GeoMap™ can also help policymakers identify which retiring coal power plants are located in areas with significant geothermal potential, providing valuable insights to inform the future of traditional energy communities and assets. You can access GeoMap for free here: https://lnkd.in/e4Btr9GR Want to come to a workshop tomorrow to learn how to use GeoMap? RSVP here (don’t worry - we will record it): https://lnkd.in/e7nHkYZj Important take away: We've all been hearing rumors about the "massive" potential of next generation geothermal energy in a drum beat over the past years. GeoMap enables you to SEE it and make it real for YOU and your COMMUNITY. Go go go! 🔥🔥🔥 #geothermal #drilling #oilandgas #energy #lithium #hydrogen #ccus
Project InnerSpace
Non-profit Organizations
Nonprofit focused on making the production of clean, always-on geothermal energy possible anywhere in the world by 2030.
About us
Project InnerSpace (InnerSpace) is a multi-phase initiative focused on accelerating global geothermal prospecting and development. InnerSpace is directed by Project InnerSpace, Inc., a 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to bringing interdisciplinary stakeholders together to enable development of geothermal energy anywhere in the world. InnerSpace is being led by Jamie Beard, an internationally recognized leader in the ‘geothermal anywhere’ movement, with the support of Schmidt Futures, a philanthropic initiative founded by Eric and Wendy Schmidt. InnerSpace will serve as driver and convener of two global geothermal innovation and deployment sprints aimed at engaging the oil and gas industry and innovative startups in geothermal resource prospecting and development within an accelerated time frame. InnerSpace will also drive much-needed foundational studies that will inform its innovation sprints. The InnerSpace sprints will tackle specific obstacles to widespread geothermal development that are not efficiently addressed by standard organizational structures, and that would benefit society broadly in ways that industry cannot yet monetize. These include subsurface resource characterization to reduce pre-project risk, and funding for ‘first of their kind’ geothermal projects that are difficult to deploy utilizing existing funding mechanisms. By removing these obstacles through purposeful, targeted innovation and interdisciplinary collaboration, within this decade geothermal energy could be scaled into terawatts of output at a cost competitive with solar and wind.
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http://www.projectinnerspace.org
External link for Project InnerSpace
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- Non-profit Organizations
- Company size
- 11-50 employees
- Headquarters
- Houston
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- Nonprofit
- Founded
- 2022
- Specialties
- geothermal, geothermalenergy, renewableenergy, energy, EGS, cleanenergy, drilling, cleanenergy, and startup
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Houston, US
Employees at Project InnerSpace
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John Clegg
Expert in innovation and rapid, focused new product development. Geothermal energy enthusiast and subject matter expert in drilling. SPE…
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Smita Satiani
Policy + Climate Tech advisor | Cofounder, Alaya Tea (former GoogleX, White House, Ashoka)
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Aston Teague
Energy Entrepreneur | Business Development Leader | Geothermal Enthusiast
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Tim Lines
Geothermal Heat Energy for Industry and Defense
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An excellent last day at Geothermal Rising - love the content and thanks to all the panelists in the #PIVOT2023 broadcast sessions. Good stuff and a lot of fun. 🌋 So now we are ready for the closing day of our month-long geothermal journey around the world - PIVOT Houston on October 6th. And check out this round up! A day of sessions featuring thought leaders from oil, gas, start-ups, and Texas stakeholders. We will close out the day with the most popular event of PIVOT - the Geothermal Startup Competition, and then head straight into a closing celebration at SpindleTap Brewery. Get all of your friends together who are (or should be) excited about geothermal and come hang with us! Celebration starts at 5:00 CST - open invitation, so all are welcome. RSVP here: https://lnkd.in/e4PTSamJ 🔥🔥🔥 Haven’t registered for #PIVOT2023 yet? You can watch the sessions virtually by registering here: https://lnkd.in/eZCGAPng Already registered? Platform access here: https://lnkd.in/evH5qYbJ #geothermaldecade #greendrilling #greendrillingboom #geothermal #texas #txgea #geothermalenergy #energy #drilling #oilandgas #oilpatch #petroleumengineering #egs #spe #aapg #drillers #geology #climate #renewables #texas #oilfield
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This is a new one at PIVOT this year - and it’s been fun to see how fast innovators adapt to emerging technologies and capabilities. The #PIVOT2023 AI Innovation Competition challenged teams to come up with creative ways of applying emerging AI and LLM technologies to solve geothermal problems. Tomorrow at PIVOT, these four finalists will complete to win cash prizes. Be sure to tune in for the audience choice vote and support your favorite idea. Congrats to the four finalists Jie Cao, Jorge Medina, Pejman Shoeibi Omrani, and Tyler Hargrove! And many thanks to Pushpesh Sharma, PhD and Daniel Merino-Garcia for building and executing on this super cool competition! Good luck finalists! 🔥🔥🔥 Haven’t registered for #PIVOT2023 yet? Register here: https://lnkd.in/eZCGAPng Already registered? Platform access here: https://lnkd.in/evH5qYbJ #geothermaldecade #greendrilling #greendrillingboom #geothermal #texas #txgea #geothermalenergy #energy #drilling #oilandgas #oilpatch #petroleumengineering #egs #spe #aapg #drillers #geology #climate #renewables #texas #oilfield
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Time to kick off Week 4 of #PIVOT2023! This week we head to #Africa for a focus on #Kenya and #Nigeria! 🔥🔥🔥 Coming your way on September 27th: We kick off the week with visits to the Kenyan and Nigerian geothermal ecosystems, with sessions broadcast live at PIVOT, moderated by Norah Ariga and Princewill Nnamdi Okechukwu. We will then transition into our all virtual content - with sessions on drilling automation led by OXY’s Ryan Rhodes, geothermal drilling and completions led by John Clegg, advanced market commitments led by Tom Kalil, and global penetration projections for geothermal led by Michael Campos. We will round out the day with a much anticipated technical series about #geothermal and artificial intelligence, moderated by Ghazal Izadi, Ph.D., and the newly launched Geothermal ‘AI’nnovation competition with an audience choice vote, led by Pushpesh Sharma, PhD and Daniel Merino-Garcia! 🌋 See you there geothermophiles. Haven’t registered for #PIVOT2023 yet? Register here: https://lnkd.in/eZCGAPng Already registered? Platform access here: https://lnkd.in/evH5qYbJ #geothermaldecade #greendrilling #greendrillingboom #geothermal #texas #txgea #geothermalenergy #energy #drilling #oilandgas #oilpatch #petroleumengineering #egs #spe #aapg #drillers #geology #climate #renewables #texas #oilfield
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Huge congrats to the #PIVOT2023 Jordan Nielson Disruptive R&D Competition winners! First place and $75,000 of research funding went to Southwest Research Institute’s John Klaerner. Second place, $50,000 of research funding, and the Audience Choice Award went to Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México’s Rodrigo Alarcon. These two teams will pursue their pitched research ideas over the next year, and we will hear updates from them about their outcomes at PIVOT2024. Thanks to all who competed and voted in the competition this year! It was a great set of ideas.
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