In this episode: Emily’s conversation with Kathy Hannun, the co-founder and president of Dandelion.

Dandelion is a company reinventing home geothermal systems. The company 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 a team at Alphabet X — formerly Google X — evaluating technology moonshots. That’s where she stumbled upon the opportunity in home geothermal.

This conversation was recorded in 2019 in front of a live audience at Powerhouse’s headquarters in Oakland, CA.

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