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To: montag813

Who needs to burn any fuel when the Earth itself is burning beneath us and we can tap into it to ran massive turbines?


Nicaragua already runs 10% of its electricity on geothermal heat. They are trying to move totally to wind, hydro and geothermal. Not because of the climate change. But because the oil spike in 2007 left them with very little electricity.


13 posted on 06/03/2017 7:18:07 AM PDT by poinq
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To: poinq
Nicaragua already runs 10% of its electricity on geothermal heat.

Much of Northern California north of San Francisco uses electricity generated by geothermal heat. My wife used to have to visit the geothermal vents while employed at PG&E, and said it stunk of sulphur. California politics forced PG&E to divest itself of the geothermal/electric plants to other smaller companies. Geothermal provides over 6 percent of electrical power in the entire state.

36 posted on 06/03/2017 1:01:44 PM PDT by roadcat
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