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• Geothermal power in the United Kingdom — The potential for exploiting geothermal energy in the United Kingdom on a commercial basis was initially examined by the Department of Energy in the wake of the 1973 oil crisis. Several regions of the country were identified, but interest in… …   Wikipedia

• Geothermal power in Turkey — Turkey currently has the 5th highest direct utilization and capacity of geothermal energy in the world. Turkey s capacity as of 2005 is 1495 MWt with a utilization of 24,839.9 TJ/year or 6900.5 GWh/year at a capacity factor of 0.53. Most of this… …   Wikipedia

• Geothermal power — (from the Greek roots geo , meaning earth, and therme , meaning heat) is energy generated by heat stored in the earth, or the collection of absorbed heat derived from underground, in the atmosphere and oceans. Prince Piero Ginori Conti tested the …   Wikipedia

• Geothermal energy in the United States — continues to be an area of considerable activity. The USA is the world leader in online capacity of geothermal energy and the generation of electricity from geothermal energy. [http://www.renewableenergyaccess.com/rea/partner/story?id=48465 6… …   Wikipedia

• Geothermal power in New Zealand — is a small but significant part of the energy generation capacity of the country, providing approximately 7% of the country s electricity with installed capacity of over 400 MW. [http://www.nzgeothermal.org.nz/geothermal energy/electricity… …   Wikipedia

• Geothermal energy exploration in Central Australia — is an area of considerable activity, which involves finding vast blocks of hot rocks with fracture systems that could generate electricity through water being injected, circulated through the fractures, and being returned to surface as steam.… …   Wikipedia

• geothermal energy — Power obtained by using heat from the Earth s interior. Most geothermal resources are in regions of active volcanism. Hot springs, geysers, pools of boiling mud, and fumaroles are the most easily exploited sources. The ancient Romans used hot… …   Universalium

• Potential energy — This article is about a form of energy in physics. For the statistical method, see Potential energy statistics. Classical mechanics Newton s Second Law …   Wikipedia

• Geothermal power in Portugal — Portugal s main investment into this type of energy is in the Azores. While electricity is only produced on São Miguel, Azores, direct use applications are also at Chaves in northern Portugal, at S. Pedro do Sul in central Portugal and at the… …   Wikipedia

• Klaipėda Geothermal Demonstration Plant — The Klaipėda Geothermal Demonstration Plant in Klaipėda, Lithuania, constructed during the late 1990s and early 2000s, was the first geothermal heating plant in the Baltic Sea region.cite web title=Implementation Completion Report url=http://www… …   Wikipedia

• Hot dry rock geothermal energy — (HDR) is a type of geothermal power production that uses the very high temperatures (approx 200 Celsius) that can be found in rocks a few kilometers below ground. Electricity is generated by pumping high pressure water down a borehole (injection… …   Wikipedia