Geothermal energy has become more popular in the past few decades as scientists race to find more sustainable forms of energy to fix the climate crisis. Countries like Iceland have been able to use their abundance of geothermal energy in order to power a large portion of their country. One of the many problems of other forms of energy like Solar power and wind power is that the amount of energy produced is based on the weather. You don’t get any power for wind turbines if there is no wind. And for solar power, you never get any power at night. This is one of the benefits of geothermal energy. There is essentially a limitless supply of energy in the earth’s core, however, it is not always coming out at the same rate. Financially, however, geothermal is quite effective. It is a large supply of energy that is just waiting to be harnessed. Perhaps one day we will figure out a way to harness geothermal energy more effectively, and it could be a better way of sustaining our planet.
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I wonder how Iceland was able to use their geothermal energy so quickly. If other countries can copy how Iceland did it, then it would hopefully create a much larger widespread usage of this type of renewable energy in the future.
This is really interesting, and I didn’t know that much about geothermal energy until reading your post! This seems like a large amount of effective, renewable energy just waiting to be used, and I can’t wait to see what advancements are made in geothermal energy in the future!
I really enjoyed reading this, thank you for sharing. As many have said essentially, I am intrigued to find out how geothermal energy will evolve and I also thought it was interesting how you touch on how natural movements such as wind can have can be problematic in terms of overuse of energy production.
Great job on this post Ben! One thing I took away from your post is how Iceland was able to capitalize economically on an overlooked energy source using its geography and natural resources.