Basic Geothermal | Uses of Geothermal Energy | Power plants | pros and cons |
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What is Earth and Heat
"Geo" and "thermo" means
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What is heating buildings through district heating systems
The most common direct use of geothermal energy
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What is Flash Steam Power Plant
Most common type of power plant
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What is nearly everywhere
Locations in the U.S. that use geothermal energy to heat homes
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What is Ring of Fire
The most geothermal activity in the world occurs here
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What are:
Food dehydration Milk pasteurization
geothermal energy relation to food
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What is Binary Power Plant
Type of power plant that pumps water into the ground to be heated
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What is more expensive
Installation costs of other popular household heating sources compared to that of geothermal energy
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What are
Volcanoes or fumaroles Hot Springs Geysers
Three ways in which geothermal energy finds it way to the surface
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What is using heat to match the water temperature of the fish's nature environment.
Role geothermal energy plays in fish farming
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What is the Geysers in California
The only location you can have a Dry Steam power plant
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What is earthquakes
Threat to public safety from geothermal systems
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