Alternative Energy Using Geothermal Power Reviews

By Lucille Green

We need to do all that we can, to develop technologies, which are behind geo-thermal free energy generation. This area has not yet been probed very deeply, but it has huge possibilities, as it is available from mother earth. Enormous quantities of free energy lie under the upper crust of the earth, on which we lie, and all that is needed is to tap the source and take control over it.

The temperature at the center of the earth is 60 times greater than the boiling point of water and the heat emanating from it create forces which can be felt only a few miles under the surface of the earth. These forces contain large amounts of free energy and there are tons of heated fluids in the form of magma, which can be seen streaming out of the earth, during a volcanic eruption. These fluids also come up to the surface of the earth as steam and come out from vents.

We could also make these vents and simultaneously build appropriate chambers where the magma can be held for later conversion to free energy, which would produce electricity to light or heat up our homes. A geothermal plant can be created if we dig a well on the ground where there is a rich source of magma or hot fluid, then fit the well with a pipe which would pump up the hot fluid to ground level for the production of required steam. The steam would turn a turbine, which would produce the electricity.

There is lots of skepticism regarding the tapping geo-thermal free energy sources, which is preventing large-scale production of this free energy. Critics claim that finding the right area for tapping these resources would be cost-prohibitive as well as time-consuming. Then there is more great expense required to build a geo-thermal power station, and there is no promise of the plant turning a profit. It might so happen that a geo-thermal site becomes incapable of producing enough steam which makes it unfeasible and unreliable.

Several conservationists are of the opinion that when you bring out magma, it is feasible that some dangerous materials also accompany it. However the benefits of geothermal energy far outweighs such comments if only we explored it deeper. We must realize that since the root of the energy is the earth, it can never carry any contaminant. geo-thermal energy is an cost-efficient free energy source - easy to produce after site identification and the set up of the plant to develop it.

Geothermic plants, furthermore, do not need to be as large as electric plants, giant dams, or atomic energy facilities - the surroundings would be less disrupted. Being an alternative source of free energy, its use would lessen our addiction on fossil fuels. The most fundamental point in the favor of geothermal free energy is that we would never exhaust it and nor would its value increase with time, as it is an endless source. The use of geothermal free energy would be, in the end, very cheap, after investigation and power plant building costs are recovered.

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