A big boost for a climate solution: Electricity made from the heat of the Earth

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A California utility is backing the largest new geothermal power development in the U.S. – 400 megawatts of clean electricity from the Earth’s heat – enough for some 400,000 homes

One method of making electricity cleanly to address climate change has been quietly advancing and on Tuesday it hit a milestone.

“If these purchases help to get this technology off the ground, it could be massively impactful for global decarbonization,” he said. Decarbonization refers to switching out things that produce carbon dioxide and methane, which cause the climate to change, in favor of machines and methods that don’t.

The first generation of geothermal plants, for example, The Geysers in California, tapped into superheated reservoirs of steam or very hot water close to the Earth’s surface. Such reservoirs are relatively rare.

 

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