Geothermal Energy
Source of Geothermal Energy
Locations of Geothermal Resources
Types of Geothermal Power Plants
Geothermal Exploration
Environmental Impacts
Energy in the News
Source of Geothermal Heat
Internal Earth Temperatures
Plate Boundaries
Sources of Hot Rock
Global Geothermal Resources
Boiling Mudpot
Erupting Volcano
Old Faithful
Geyser
In Yellowstone national park
Underlain by Yellowstone hotspot
Eruptions that formed the park
Much bigger than any known
Historic eruption: would devastate
Civilization as we know it if
Occurred now.
Geothermal Reservoir
Geothermal Prospecting
Temperature Gradient Data
A Successful
Borehole:
Steam!!
Producing Geothermal Well
Dry Steam Power Plant
Geysers Dry Steam Geothermal
Plant
Largest plant
In the world
Produces
2000 megawatts
From 14 units
New Zealand Geothermal Power Plant
Flash Steam Geothermal Power Plant
Binary Cycle Geothermal Power Plant
Geothermal Gradients USA
US Geothermal Resource Areas
Conventional and Ground Source
Geothermal
California:
Potential
Geothermal
Resources
Geothermal Greenhouse
Keeping the Street Clear (with
Geothermal Steam)
SO2 and CO2 emissions