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    The document discusses the potential of geothermal power as an alternative energy source that taps into the vast amounts of heat and energy below the Earth's surface. It describes how geothermal power plants could be constructed to convert underground heat and fluids into steam to power turbines and generate electricity in an efficient and non-polluting way. However, critics argue that the high costs of study, development and construction combined with reliability concerns have prevented geothermal energy from being utilized on a larger scale.

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    The document discusses the potential of geothermal power as an alternative energy source that taps into the vast amounts of heat and energy below the Earth's surface. It describes how geothermal power plants could be constructed to convert underground heat and fluids into steam to power turbines and generate electricity in an efficient and non-polluting way. However, critics argue that the high costs of study, development and construction combined with reliability concerns have prevented geothermal energy from being utilized on a larger scale.

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    The document discusses the potential of geothermal power as an alternative energy source that taps into the vast amounts of heat and energy below the Earth's surface. It describes how geothermal power plants could be constructed to convert underground heat and fluids into steam to power turbines and generate electricity in an efficient and non-polluting way. However, critics argue that the high costs of study, development and construction combined with reliability concerns have prevented geothermal energy from being utilized on a larger scale.

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    Geothermal Power As Alternative Energy

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    Geothermal Power As Alternative Energy

    We should be doing everything possible to develop geothermal energy technologies. This is a


    largely untapped area of tremendous alternative energy potential, as it simply taps the energy
    being naturally produced by the Earth herself. Vast amounts of power are present below the
    surface crust on which we move and have our being. All we need do is tap into it and harness it.

    At the Earths’ core, the temperature is 60 times greater than that of water being boiled. The
    tremendous heat creates pressures that exert themselves only a couple of miles below us, and
    these pressures contain huge amounts of energy. Superheated fluids in the form of magma, which
    we see the power and energy of whenever there is a volcanic eruption, await our tapping. These
    fluids also trickle to the surface as steam and emerge from vents. We can create our own vents,
    and we can create out own containment chambers for the magma and convert all of this energy
    into electricity to light and heat our homes. In the creation of a geothermal power plant, a well
    would be dug where there is a good source of magma or heated fluid. Piping would be fitted down
    into the source, and the fluids forced to the surface to produce the needed steam. The steam
    would turn a turbine engine, which would generate the electricity.

    There are criticisms of geothermal energy tapping which prevent its being implemented on the
    large scale which it should be. Critics say that study and research to find a resourceful area is too
    costly and takes up too much time. Then there is more great expense needed to build a
    geothermal power plant, and there is no promise of the plant turning a profit. Some geothermal
    sites, once tapped, might be found to not produce a large enough amount of steam for the power
    plant to be viable or reliable. And we hear from the environmentalists who worry that bringing up
    magma can bring up potentially harmful materials along with it.

    However, the great benefits of geothermal energy would subsume these criticisms if only we
    would explore it more. The fact that geothermal energy is merely the energy of the Earth herself
    means it does not produce any pollutants. Geothermal energy is extremely efficient

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