I found recently the existence of Geothermic Energy and i didn’t really understand It.
There are zones where the underground is so hot we can get energy (Electricity) from it. How?
I read that One of the first to do It was in Italy, in the 1904 or something, and i don’t understand how could they build something without…well die. If the heat is so High wouldnt people be hurt? How could they build something like that? I guess that now is more easy but at that time how was that even possible?
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Maybe just an addition to the point “wouldn’t people be hurt”. For using geothermal energy, you normally still have to drill a few hundred up to thousands of meters to the Earth, the surface isn’t that hot. But there are occasions where the heat comes directly to the surface, like Geysers and volcanic eruptions. And they definitely can hurt people. It’s also possible that the temperature on the surface is too low for a power plant, but just enough to heat water to the temperature of a hot tub, so you can bath in it.
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