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| Dr. Hazel Gibson |
This is not the kind of geothermal power that most people would be familiar with, like they have in Iceland for example, as the rocks in the target location of Cornwall are hot, but not wet. In order to make geothermal work here, the company has to drill down to the hot rocks and add water to make steam, which will drive a turbine, making electricity!
My work focuses on how people think about geothermal in the geological subsurface, what they feel about it, and how that impacts how we talk about it. The aim of my research is to make it possible for people to have the best and most productive conversations about this as possible.
Making sure that conversations are effective is important as companies want permission to do the work, which is granted (or not) by the residents, but also local people have a lot of useful information that companies need to listen to. Throw the government into this mix and conversations can become quite heated, but a lot of frustrations often come from misunderstanding. My job is to try to reduce the chance of that happening.
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