Geothermal

by Morgan Shumaker ** Geothermal energy is the heat that comes from the earth. The heat can be transferred through water and is used to make steam. Steam then spins turbines and works a generater to generate electricity. Because geothermal energy comes from the earth, it is virtually inexhaustable which makes it renewable. There are ten geothermal energy plants in the state of pennsylvania. Geothermal energy is simply the heat the earth generates that can be transferred through water. The water makes steam, spins a turbine, and generates electricity.The top Geothermal hot spots of the world are Calafornia, Japan, Iceland, Italy, and New Zealand. Infact, 90% of iceland is powered by geothermal energy.
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There's several uses to energy from the earth. It can be used for tourism like gysers and hot springs, or it can be used to create energy that will power cities and towns. An estimated quarter of a persent of the geothermal energy in the earth is used up. Energy from geothermal plants also causes scenery spoliation, drying of hot springs, soil erosion, noise pollution, and chemical pollution in the air, ground water, and surface water. There are a couple things that have cleaned up the geothermal industry. Directional drilling, injection of spent geothermal fluid, chemical extractioin from the wastes, and high temperature systems that can work around volcanic roots. Geothermal gysers acount for the third biggest fraction of tourism. Geothermal systems have upgraded technology to increase efficiancy of geothermal systems. A geothermal company, called Geo Tech, has invented specialy designed pipes, pumps, and even several methods of pipe layout.

Geothermal use is a tricky piece of business that takes a long process of work. Geothermal energy is harnessed from the earth by pipeing water into drilled holes in the ground. the superheated water is then piped back to the surface geothermal unit which holds the water. Technological advantages have refined efficiancy of geothermal systems to increase the amount of energy you can get from the heated water. After drilling long and deep holes into the earth, pipes are placed in the earth. The earth heats the water and uses it to make steam to spin turbines. These turbines are hooked to generators that create electricity. The electricity follows miles of power lines that lead to all the houses of a city or town so everyone gets power from geothermal energy. The use of geothermal energy is regulated so it can be easily sustained. Geothermal energy is one of the most simple but yet most inovative resources harnesed.

Geothermal power is inexhaustable, however, it still needs to be taken care of. Geothermal energy does little to the environment. And because it's inexhaustable it is considered to be renewable, and one of the more cheap alternate energies. To get geothermal energy land needs to be dramaticly changeed to make room for a drill. Agter drilling is done, the drill can be moved, and the environment can grow around the pipes. There are 10 geothermal plants in pennsylvania. Four plants are in Bradford and the rest are in other various counties. The protection of springss, gysers, and thermal pools will create a bigger geothermal industry. Geothermal conservation laws have also set up a United States Department of Energy that has set up several guidelines and create many innovations that make geothermal energy more efficiant. D.O.E., or the department of energy, has created a low heat system of oil liquids that are more effective than old water methods. They also have made the idea of useing leftover fluids from operations like oil drilling and mining. The departments efforts have made super heated water more efficiant than oil industries.

I believe geothermal energy is one of the cleanest alternate natural resources. Geothermal energy even allows the ecosystem to grow right around it. Geothermal energy is considered inexhaustable due to the fact that the earth isn't going to stop suddenly in the next thousand years. It has almost no wastes including no greenhouse gases. They are even one of the more cheap alternate energy sources to look into. Geothermal energy has no set backs and brings the heat of the earth directly to the earths surface. Geothermal's great strides in technology have made it not only energy efficiant, environmentaly stable, but also a very cheap industry.