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Modernist Bata shoe factory transforms into geothermal-powered homes

AGreenLiving

Although the modernist-style factory had been decommissioned in 2000 and sold to a plastics factory, Sonja Bata repurchased the 1,500-acre site in 2008 as part of an ambitious masterplan to transform Batawa into a model of sustainable development. Related: 100-year-old Buda Mill & Grain Co.

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? Busting geothermal myths with Bedrock Energy

Climate Tech VC

So the data we collect is about extremely precise characterizations of lots and lots of different data points about the soil and the rock throughout many, many feet—1,000 feet, 2000 feet deep. ’ And the nice thing about this kind of geothermal is that the boreholes are very, very narrow, and we're not fracking.