Alternative_Energy_Know_How 2018

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 our 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 fluid surging to the surface to produce the needed
steam. The steam would turn a turbine connected to a
generator, which would provide 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 superheated,
mineralized water can also bring up potentially harmful
materials along with it. These concerns are eliminated with a
closed-loop system that does not come into contact with the
corrosive materials inside the earth‘s crust. Such a plant
only uses the heat, and does not vent potential corrosive
materials.
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