Midway through the conference, which brought roughly 1,000 academics, politicians and
curious onlookers to Nevada over the last two days, I had a chance to buttonhole Mr. Reicher and two
other principals in the exploration of next - generation geothermal technology: Steven Chu, the Nobel laureate and director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and Don O'Shei, whose company, AltaRock Energy, just received a $ 6.25 million investment from Google (see yesterday's post.)