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• As you descend deeper into the Earth's crust, underground rock and water
become hotter. This heat can be recovered using different geothermal
technologies depending on the temperature. But the heat resources in
geothermal reservoirs are not inexhaustible.
Thermal Gradient
• The adjective geothermal comes from the Greek words ge (earth) and thermos (heat). It
covers all techniques used to recover the heat that is naturally present in the Earth’s
subsurface, particularly in aquifers, the rock reservoirs that contain groundwater. About half
this thermal (or “heat”) energy comes from the residual heat produced when the planet was
formed 4.5 billion years ago and about half from natural radioactivity
• Thermal energy, contained in the
earth, can be used directly to supply
heat or can be converted to mechanical
or electrical energy.
High-Temperature Geothermal Energy: Power