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• a  of or relating to the heat in the interior of the earth

• POWER CENTER: Krafla, which opened in the early 1970s, was the country's first major geothermal power station.
• Even as Iceland's finances collapse, it still reaps dividends from the geothermal heat boiling under its frozen landscapes.
• The world's biggest country is starting to go geothermal thanks to one of the smallest.

• geothermic

News & Articles

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• Geothermal Power Tanzania Plans First Steam Generation Next Year
  Geothermal Power Tanzania Ltd. plans to invest as much as $350 million to drill steam fields in the country’s south and build its first geothermal plants with the capacity to generate up to 140 megawatts by 2018.
  June 21, 2013 - Bloomberg
• Alterra Power and EDC Finalize Joint Venture for Geothermal Assets in Chile and Peru
  Alterra Power and EDC Finalize Joint Venture for Geothermal Assets in Chile and Peru
  June 20, 2013 - CNW Group via Yahoo! Finance
• Indonesia Allocates $302 Million to Back Geothermal Exploration
  Indonesia started a fund to finance the exploration of geothermal energy resources as the nation seeks to reduce its dependence on fossil fuels for electricity.
  June 20, 2013 - Renewable Energy World

Quotes

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• Sarah Palin in International Herald Tribune
  Palin said that in a McCain-Palin administration "we're going to lay more pipelines, build more nuclear plants, create jobs with clean coal, and move forward on solar, wind, geothermal, and other alternative sources. We need American energy...
• Ron Wyden in EnergyPortal.eu
  There is tremendous potential for renewable geothermal energy and the jobs for Oregon that come with it,said Senator Ron Wyden. "The announcement today helps make commercial development of geothermal energy in Malheur County a reality....
• Dirk Kempthorne in Washington Post
  Geothermal energy is replenished, is a renewable resource that generates electricity with minimal carbon emissions ......(and) reduces the need for conventional energy sources,said Kempthorne.