Geothermal Energy

Dong Heon Kim

14, 2016

September

There are lots of pollution going on in process by excess of carbon dioxide

and polluted air which affects earths nature and one of the ways the
scientists found out to save Earth is to use renewable resources just like
geothermal energy. Geothermal energy is the heat released from the earth
and they are renewable, clean, and sustainable. The resources of geothermal
energy are ranged from the shallow ground to hot water and hot rock found a
few miles beneath the Earths surface. The visible features of geothermal
energy are volcanoes, hot springs, geysers, and fumaroles.
Geothermal energy can be used in three ways: the first method is direct
geothermal energy, in areas where reservoirs are near the Earths surface,
hot waters are piped directly to home or office and the waters are pumped to
the heat exchanger and the heats are directly transferred within home or
offices, then used waters are transferred back to the reservoirs and heated
back up. Second method, geothermal heat pump lets the fluid flow and
circulates through a series of pipes underground or beneath water resources
and then into a building. An electric compressor and heat exchanger draws
heat out to the pipe where is connected to the building and the waters
flowed back to where it came from. The third way geothermal power plant
is used by drawing water out from the underground and generates electricity
in power plant. The three types of geothermal power plant are dry steam
plant, flash steam plants, and binary cycle plants. Geothermal energy is
generated and used in 20 countries and those are countries with volcanoes,
many hot springs, and geysers. United States is the largest producer of
geothermal energy.
The most significant advantage of using geothermal energy is that we do not
need to burn fossil fuels such as coals, gas or oil. Geothermal produces only
one-sixth of carbon dioxide that natural-gas-fueled power plant produces.
Geothermal energy is renewable that, when it is used its able to use again
by flowing the water where it came from and heating back them up.