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Kicking The Fossil Fuel Habit

Tom Rand — the engineer, venture capitalist, and self-appointed “philosopher” — thinks the world has every technology and resource it needs to break the bonds of fossil fuels. Why is that so important? Regardless of your stance on global warming, these green technologies can help any manufacturing facility save money.

Tom Rand — the engineer, venture capitalist, and self-appointed “philosopher” — thinks the world has every technology and resource it needs to break the bonds of fossil fuels. Why is that so important? Regardless of your stance on global warming, these green technologies can help any manufacturing facility save money.

A technology called “enhanced geothermal” is pretty simple — just drill a few miles down into the earth, where there’s a lot of hot rock, and use that heat to generate electricity. What manufacturing plant wouldn't want its own environmentally-friendly power plant in the next building over?

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