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Geothermal Energy And Natural Energy

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Just beneath your feet, lies an unimaginable amount of heat. Water in the Earth collects into very hot pools, known as geothermal reservoirs. Scientists have discovered that we can harness energy from this natural heat source and use it for our benefit. Electricity, agriculture, aquaculture are just the basic ways that geothermal energy is used. There are also many creative and helpful uses for it, such as in spas or thawing ice on roads. So what exactly is geothermal energy and how does it work? The project we have carried out answers these exact questions. This energy source is one of great worth, especially in our modern day.
The word Geothermal literally means “heat from the earth”. The Earth has 4 levels: crust, mantle, outer core, and inner core. The crust acts as an insulator for the immense heat coming from below which is an efficient universal resource. The next section, the mantle, begins at a depth of 1250 miles and is only semi-molten. The third down, the outer core, starts at 2500 miles and is completely liquid. Finally, the inner core is solid and is made of nickel and iron. It starts at a depth of 4,000 miles and is 9,000 degrees fahrenheit.

(This is a picture of a fumarole, one example of the earth’s thermal power).
There are many natural sources on the Earth that show the heat and power within the Earth: geysers, hot springs, fumaroles, along fault lines, volcanoes, and mud pots, and that’s not all. All of those are similar but they are all a different

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