National Energy Technology Laboratory

Department of Energy, and 10 other national laboratories to celebrate the launch of the new Geothermal Center of Excellence.

With support from the National Energy Technology Laboratory, or NETL, the new center is led by NLR at our South Table Mountain campus in Golden, Colorado.

It will create a national hub, a place for industry and national laboratories to collaborate and work towards gigawatt-scale geothermal power in the United States.

And you know what they say in real estate, location, location, location.

But NLR isn't alone in launching this consortium.

The center unites 11 Department of Energy national laboratories to support its mission.

Goals include reducing technical barriers, achieving measurable progress toward industry cost and scale targets, harnessing synergies with other centers of excellence already at NETL, and accelerating industry lab partnerships.

An industry advisory board has been formed to help with that last goal, providing insight into industry-relevant geothermal research needs and advising on center priorities.

But, you know, I would say in 2020, so first of all, Greg Hanthorn, Chief Business Officer for AmeriCarbon.

I'm kind of the business guy of the team that was founded by Dave Barry, who's not here, but Dave has spent 30 plus years at the Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory.

in Morgantown, and essentially what that does is oversee the research and development on behalf of the federal government into using things fossil fuel related, so coal, oil, gas, conversion to chemicals, those sorts of things.

And so he had an opportunity to acquire a pilot scale manufacturing facility in Morgantown, West Virginia, and he needed a business guy that at least knew and understood how to spell carbon, and that's pretty much what got me in the middle of all that.

I believe that the only one they really took off is Brookhaven National Laboratory.

But the 15 remainders are Idaho National Laboratory, Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant, Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant, Argonne National Laboratory, Brookhaven taken off, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, National Energy Technology Laboratory, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Sandia National Laboratory, Savannah River Site, Pantex Plant, Kansas City National Security Campus.

So when they say it's the equivalent of the Manhattan Project that built the atomic bomb, Idaho National Laboratory, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, and Los Alamos National Laboratory, the four that are listed on here to put AI data centers on top, all four of those were the key facilities in the Manhattan Project, the manufacture, production, testing of atomic nuclear weapons.

So they're not being hyperbolic.

As a PhD student, he developed T-Storm for Chevron, a program enhancing sand transport in pipelines that has been used in major capital projects.

He later worked as a postdoctoral research associate at NETL on carbon capture systems, energy projects, and improvements to the in-house FOCUS software.

Then, as a process systems engineer at Aristatus on emission reduction, decarbonization, and hydrogen production.

After examining the benefits of CO2 and the risks of net zero, Dr. Supian joined the CO2 Coalition, where he now serves as science and research associate.

As a PhD student, he developed T-Storm for Chevron, a program enhancing sand transport in pipelines that has been used in major capital projects.

He later worked as a postdoctoral research associate at NETL on carbon capture systems, energy projects, and improvements to the in-house Focus software.

Then, as a process systems engineer at Aristosys on emission reduction, decarbonization, and hydrogen production.

After examining the benefits of CO2 and the risks of net zero, Dr. Supian joined the CO2 Coalition, where he now serves as science and research associate.

As a PhD student, he developed TU Storm for Chevron, a program enhancing sand transport and pipelines that has been used in major capital projects.

He later worked as a postdoctoral research associate at NETL on carbon capture systems, energy projects, and improvements to the in-house focus software.

then as a process systems engineer at Aristosys on emission reduction, decarbonization, and hydrogen production.

After examining the benefits of CO2 and the risks of net zero, Dr. Supyong joined the CO2 Coalition, where he now serves as science and research associate.