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Showing posts with label Environment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Environment. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Geothermal Power - The New Alternative Energy?

Geothermal power presents a lot of energetic potential to the world nowadays. It represents a fairly unexploited energetic sector which could in fact generate incredulous amounts of energy if properly explored. Geothermal power is produced from the Earth itself and thus, comes with the advantage of being natural. Power accumulates on the surface crust and thus all we would need to do would be tap it and then use it accordingly.

Inside the core of the Earth, the temperature can reach unbelievable temperature, sixty times more than the temperature to boil water for instance. The heat deposited in the core of the earth puts pressure on the crust and thus harnesses a lot of energy. Fluids that are superheated such as magma, the type of fluid we see coming from a volcano erupting, is present everywhere inside the core and thus, whenever a volcano erupts,