Energy Resources: Geothermal power Quiz
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depth drill electricity energy gases hot pump renewable rock sites steam water
Geothermal power means getting
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from
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rocks underground. This is
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so long as we don't take too much energy out and cool the rocks too much.
Hot
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comes up out of the hole we've drilled and usually "flashes" into
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. This can drive turbines and generators, to make
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.
At some sites we have to
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water down, at others hot water comes up anyway. Sometimes poisonous
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come up too.
Geothermal power can occasioanally be unreliable, and there are not many suitable
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because there needs to be the right type of
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at a
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we can reach, underneath rock which isn't too hard to
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through.
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