Steven Novella
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 4 Jul
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And then you just keep going around.
Does that make sense?
Pump it up under pressure.
You'd flash steams.
That's where you get your steam at lower temperatures.
You can use a binary cycle where the water isn't turning into steam.
It's heating up another fluid, which has a lower boiling point.
And that steam drives the turbine.
The advantage of those is that they could operate from 70 to a hundred degrees Celsius, but typically they're operating between one and one 50 and
Right, so you have your low temperature, say 70 to 150, where you have to use this binary system.
You have the flash steam system, which operates at greater than 150 C. And then you have supercritical systems, which operate at greater than 374 degrees Celsius C.
These supercritical systems basically get, they superheat the water under pressure until you get it into this supercritical phase where it's like a hybrid of gas and fluid.
And so it behaves differently.
And essentially, with a supercritical system operating at greater than 374, you can get four to five times the amount of electricity with the same drilling, right?
With the same setup otherwise.
Yes, but that's for the future, right?
Right now, we're mainly operating in this typical flash steam system between 150 and 250, like around there.
And there's a sweet spot.
Obviously, the hotter it is, the more electricity you're going to be able to generate, but the more it costs to drill.
And so, you know, there is this sort of sweet spot of between 150 and 250 where it's economically optimal, right?
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