Ground Truth: Episode 1: Twenty Feet of Water

Ground Truth Overview: Before Fervo Energy rang the Nasdaq bell, it was a flood in Houston, a Stanford class project, and a young engineer convinced fracking technology could crack geothermal energy wide open. Ground Truth traces Fervo's decade-long climb from that grad-school hunch to a multibillion-dollar IPO, told not as corporate history, but as a human one. Host Olivia Johnson, new to the company herself, talks to the founders and early team about the years nobody believed them, the breakthrough in the Nevada desert, and the largest next-generation geothermal project on Earth rising in Utah. Episode 1: Twenty Feet of Water Tim Latimer grew up next to America's last coal plant. As a drilling engineer, a string of heat-damaged motors led him to geothermal energy and the realization that oil and gas technology could unlock it. Then a 2015 flood brought climate change into his own life. Episode one follows Tim from Riesel, Texas, to a Stanford application essay with a plan: no company, no investors, just an idea. Spotify: https://shorturl.at/jt8Nj Apple Podcasts: https://shorturl.at/eekBz