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Podcast: Energy Gang
Episode: Watt It Takes: Why This Founder Dug Into Home Geothermal
Description: This week on Watt It Takes: How a product manager at Google saw promise in geothermal heat pumps β and applied the lessons of solar to an underserved market.In this episode, Powerhouse CEO Emily Kirsch sits down with Kathy Hannun, the co-founder of Dandelion, a home geothermal company that uses a proprietary drilling technique, simple product design, and financing to cut the cost of ground-source heating and cooling.For seven years, Kathy was on the rapid evaluation team at Alphabet X β formerly Google X β evaluating technology moonshots. Thatβs where she stumbled upon the opportunity in geoth...