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Tim Latimer

@TimMLatimer

CEO @fervoenergy, revolutionizing the electric grid with next-gen geothermal 🌋 ⚡️ Texan.

Houston, TX Katılım Mayıs 2011
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Tim Latimer@TimMLatimer·
Oh, hey everyone. Drill, Baby, Drill. For clean energy. ift.tt/6jo5TIH
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Breakthrough Energy
Breakthrough Energy@Breakthrough·
Energy demand is growing fast. The winners will be technologies that deliver more power, better economics, and real reliability. @fervoenergy going public is a major step for enhanced geothermal, and for the kind of infrastructure modern industry needs. Proud to have Fervo in our portfolio, and grateful for @TimMLatimer’s leadership in helping move this field forward. bth-energy.com/3PhUuM0
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Apoorv Bhargava@apoorv_bh89·
One of the best parts of reading @firstadopter ‘s “Nvidia Way” is a theory I have of linking the Nvidia design cycle philosophy back to why Chinese OEMs are fundamentally so much better at making new vehicles relative to western ones… 🧵1/
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Andy Marks
Andy Marks@anmhouston·
@TimMLatimer TX is much cheaper rent wise, but for most people the amount of taxes paid is not drastically different. Property taxes offset most of the gains from no income tax.
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Tim Latimer@TimMLatimer·
Frequently some version of this tweet goes viral (aCtUaLlY Texas is more expensive!!), and having split the last decade between these states, it's absolute nonsense. CA has some great qualities, but the idea that it's in the same ballpark as TX in affordability is insane.
Uzi@UziCryptoo

6 years of living in Texas and I've come to the conclusion that the no state income tax thing is basically a scam. The property taxes are so high that they negate any savings. We are still paying as many taxes in Texas as we would in California. You save on gas I guess.

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Tim Latimer@TimMLatimer·
@Stphn_Lacey Agree but there is a downward spiral on these issues. The best way to respond to growing threats of extreme weather is to rapidly build resilient infrastructure to respond to it. Our inability to do that exacerbates the issue.
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Stephen Lacey
Stephen Lacey@Stphn_Lacey·
@TimMLatimer Agreed, but NIMBYism is only one piece. A huge piece of the rate increases have been extreme weather related and people have not internalized the cost of this threat.
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Tim Latimer@TimMLatimer·
It’s a shame there isn’t more awareness around what drives electricity affordability as it is now a hot topic. If the average citizen understood that, e.g., NIMBYism that blocks a new transmission line directly leads to higher costs, the conversation would be a lot different.
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Tim Latimer@TimMLatimer·
The tungsten price chart is wild.
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Tim Latimer@TimMLatimer·
@Goolic If it’s a solved problem, why are half of planned data centers being canceled or delayed due to energy challenges? Throwing money at software problems can often generate fast outcomes. I think people are making a mistake extrapolating that to the physical world.
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Goolic um pequeno tirano brasileiro.
@TimMLatimer It's easy in the sense that it's a solved problem and they have money to throw at it. The argument that doubling eletricity costs will increase AI costs by tens of cents is a reasonable one: x.com/dwarkesh_sp/st…
Dwarkesh Patel@dwarkesh_sp

Every year someone names a new bottleneck for AI compute scaling. @dylan522p on why power isn't gonna be the big one over the next few years: fundamentally there's many different ways to generate power (rather than just one company that can produce the EUV tools needed for the chips themselves) and the supply chains are simpler and easier to ramp. You can do jet engines bolted to the ground. Ship engines. Diesel recips from auto manufacturers with declining volumes. Fuel cells. Each category alone delivers tens of gigawatts by end of decade. Combined, hundreds. Even if energy costs double, a GPU goes from $1.40/hr to $1.50/hr. Nobody notices a dime when the models are improving so fast the value dwarfs the cost. Even if you don't add more power, but simply add more batteries, you can unlock 20% more of the US's terawatt scale power grid. This is because grid utilities want to make sure they're sized for peak summer load that hits a few hours a year. With enough batteries, you can make this guarantee, even without turning on more power plants! Fundamentally, there's a lot of different ways to bring power online over the next few years. Building more logic and memory is far more difficult and centralized, so that's where Dylan thinks the bottleneck will be.

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Tim Latimer@TimMLatimer·
Fervo Energy announced today we are expanding our Board of Directors. New appointments include Meg Whitman, Jessica Uhl, Robert Keehan, and Trey Lowe. Welcome aboard! fervoenergy.com/fervo-energy-e…
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Governor Cox
Governor Cox@GovCox·
Tim Latimer, CEO of @FervoEnergy, will join us on May 22 at the Operation Gigawatt Summit. Fervo is advancing next-generation geothermal in central Utah, delivering reliable, firm power and helping lead the way on American energy dominance. Learn more: gigawattsummit.com
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Tim Latimer@TimMLatimer·
@grajeevtvm Also, compute still needs energy, whether it’s in a car or a building.
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Tim Latimer@TimMLatimer·
@grajeevtvm Mapping new geographies and continual iterative improvement of models.
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Tim Latimer@TimMLatimer·
One way to think about how durable data center growth is: currently autonomous driving accounts for a fraction of a percent of US VMT. We’ve got a long, long way to go.
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Tim Latimer@TimMLatimer·
New job posting, Chief of Staff, reporting directly to me. Please help me share far and wide. This will be a fantastic role at a pivotal time in Fervo’s journey. fervoenergy.com/career/chief-o…
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Tim Latimer@TimMLatimer·
@Daniel_Spenrath Using AI tools for 50% of the job is probably just a base expectation at this point.
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Jesse D. Jenkins
Jesse D. Jenkins@JesseJenkins·
.@fervoenergy signs deal with Turboden for 1.7 GW of 50 MW "geo blocks," standardized organic Rankine cycle power plants. Standardizing and scaling surface plant manufacturing is a key driver of the experience curves we expect to see driving down enhanced geothermal costs as the technology scales, as detailed in prior ZERO Lab research led by @wilson_ricks zero.lab.princeton.edu/wp-content/upl… More via LinkedIn linkedin.com/posts/fervo-en…
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