What is geothermal energy?
Why is geothermal important?
Where do we find it?
How do we use it?
Why is geothermal important?
● Clean energy● Renewable● Cheap
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What is clean energy?
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Where do we find geothermal resources?
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Why is it hot?
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Why isn't all subsurface water hot?
Why isn't all subsurface water hot?
● Ground water: Water that exists beneath the earth's surface in underground streams and aquifers
● Aquifer: an area that contains large amounts of water under the surface of the earth
● Geothermal water: water heated by the natural heat inside the Earth
● Geothermal reservoir: a large volume of underground hot water and steam in porous and fractured hot rock. Geothermal reservoirs are sometimes covered by a layer of impermeable rock.
Where does Boise's geothermal come from?
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Geothermal recharge
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Efficiency
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Direct use geothermal
How do we extract the energy?