Geothermal energy is stored underground, but the building is on the top of the land. You need to drill a pipe 3.0 km deep in a certain place called a reservoir. The price of geothermal energy depends on the plant. The average price is 0.03 dollars per kWh. the heat energy goes into wires and used as energy. Geothermal thing hooked up to your house will be 100 meters meters deep. In 1904 the first geothermal power plant was in Italy. The biggest geothermal power plant is the Geysers power plant in California. All the geothermal plants in the U.S. can make 10% of the U.S' energy. Most geothermal power plants in the U.S. are in California. this is what a geothermal plant looks like. Geothermal energy works like this, water is heated then, sent to a steam turbine where the heat from the steam powers a generator and then converted into electricity then put into power lines. unlike some other sources geothermal energy is clean for the environment. So all the smoke you see in these pictures are not smoke, but it is steam, so it can't harm the environment. Geothermal energy has one of the lowest carbon footprints of energy sources. Geothermal energy was used before they had power plans for it, in the ancient times people used geothermal energy to used it to take baths. This is where the Geysers power plant is on google maps If you are going to comment, please don't make fun of my website. I will delete all inappropriate and mean comments.
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