The University of Tulsa
Summary
University of Tulsa mechanical engineering alumnus Tim Latimer (BS ’12) was dealing with drilling equipment that kept breaking from the high temperatures deep underground. “I had never even heard of ‘geothermal’ at that point,” Latimer says. “But it was where all the solutions for high-temperature drilling were, so I did more and more research.”
That research ultimately led him down an entrepreneurial path. Generated from Earth’s internal heat, geothermal energy offers a renewable, carbon-free source of power – but it’s been expensive to access.
“I was right in the middle of the ‘shale revolution,’” Latimer says, with oil production skyrocketing from the use of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing. “It just seemed to me very obvious that we could take some of these major technology breakthroughs from oil and gas and apply them to geothermal.”
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