Your Guide to Alternative Energy Using Geothermal Power

By Lucille Green

We need to do all that we can, to produce technologies, which are behind geo-thermal energy generation. Though largely untapped, this form of energy has immense possibilities and it is created from the earth itself. There is huger amount of free energy lying just beneath the surface of the earth on which we live, and saddling it is the prime job.

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 at the same time build appropriate chambers where the magma can be arrested for later conversion to free energy, which would produce electricity to light or heat up our homes. To make a geothermic plant, a well needs to be dug in an area with abundant source of magma or super hot fluid, then a pipe has to be used to bring up the fluid on to the surface level to get the necessary steam power. The steam would turn a turbine, which would generate the electrical energy.

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.

Even conservationists have shown their concern that pumping up magma could also carry with it several detrimental materials. However, the great benefits of geothermal free energy would subsume these criticisms if only we would explore it greater. We must realize that since the root of the energy is the earth, it can never carry any contaminant. geothermic free energy is an efficient free energy source - easy to develop after site identification and the set up of the plant to develop it.

It is also a fact that geothermal plants are not as massive as electric plants, dams or atomic energy units and this means that it would not disrupt the environment too much. Using this alternative source of energy would naturally reduce our addiction on fossil fuels. The most important point in the favor of geo-thermal energy is that we would never run it out and nor would its value appreciate with time, as it is an long-term 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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