Remembering-B.C. McCabe and Ben Holt

摘要

Richard Campbell, the new GRC president, has spent a great deal of time with the geothermal pioneers B.C. McCabe and Ben Holt. In 2011, embarking on his presidency, he looks back at working with these two men. S: Describe your relationships with Ben Holt and B.C. McCabe. R: Well, I started at the Ben Holt Company straight out of school in 1976. Several years after that, Ben asked me to optimize a binary-cycle process for the Mammoth geothermal site. It became apparent to me, after working on it for a few weeks, there were a lot of advantages with going to air-cooled condensing, rather than water-cooled condensing—what the original expectation was.