Tim Latimer

And so I called Tim back at the encouragement of my boyfriend at the time, who is now my husband.

I actually remember this walk in the botanical gardens of Lexington, Kentucky, where Tim Burke, my husband, not to be confused with Tim Latimer, my boss, Tim Burke, my boyfriend at the time was living.

And we were talking about career options.

And he said, what if you just called Tim Latimer back and just said, hey, I'll just work doing whatever, wherever, for however much, and no strings attached.

And I did just that.

And I hate to give so much credit to my husband because I like to think of it as my idea, but it really was his idea.

And I think that's what Fervo serves as in Stanford Client Ventures.

In episode one, we met Tim Latimer, a Texas native who started his career in oil and gas.

After learning about geothermal energy, he became convinced that techniques from the shale industry could make geothermal possible in places that don't have the naturally ideal conditions traditional geothermal needs.

That hunch took him to Stanford, where he took a course called Energy Ventures and pitched a geothermal company as a class project.

[rain] Climate change was starting to intersect with my life, not as like an academic idea, but actually intersecting with my life because that was the first of what became a series of these one in 1,000 or one in 500 year flood events that hit Houston.

That's Tim Latimer remembering a morning in April 2015.

At the time, he was a drilling engineer for one of the biggest oil and gas companies in the world, living a couple of blocks off Buffalo Bayou in Houston, Texas.

A few months after the flood, he quit his job and went to grad school with a very specific application essay: take the technology he trained in and use it to pull heat out of the ground.

When it rains here, the water has nowhere to go.

In 2015, it rained, and a young drilling engineer named Tim Latimer watched his city flood.

[rain falling] Climate change was starting to intersect with my life, not as like an academic idea, but actually intersecting with my life, because that was the first of what became a series of these one in 1,000 or one in 500 year flood events that hit Houston.

But Tim's story starts before the flood.

The entire site could be much larger, though, with the potential to generate as much as 4 gigawatts of electricity.

Vervo co-founder and CEO Tim Latimer said, No team has ever built a project like this anywhere in the world, and we did it ahead of schedule.

From groundbreaking to commercial operations, the first block at Cape Station took 23 months to complete.

As Vervo refines its process, it is aiming to complete future blocks in as little as 18 months.

And in the meantime, we're going to have to continue to tap wind, solar, and batteries, and to some degree, natural gas as our only other scalable options in the near term.

Yeah, since we had that session with you, we had both Tim Latimer, CEO of Vervo, and Carlos Araque, CEO of Quaze, talking exactly about this opportunity.

And I think my favorite little anecdote from one of those conversations was from Tim saying he went to one of the sites, chatted to an engineer about geothermal, and the engineer was like, What's geothermal? This is an

oil rig, isn't it? It's an oil