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    • Pipes of a Geothermal power station.
    Rights: Contact Energy Published 10 June 2008, Updated 25 September 2024 Size: 420 KB Referencing Hub media

    Geothermal1 power2 is a valuable renewable3 resource, but it still requires close management and monitoring to control4 reservoir5 water and pressure6 levels and to avoid land subsidence and depletion.

    1. geothermal: Geothermal energy is energy produced from the heat of the Earth.
    2. power: 1. The rate at which work is done (defined as work divided by time taken). 2. Mechanical or physical energy, force or momentum.
    3. renewable: Resources able to be sustained or renewed indefinitely, either because of inexhaustible supplies or because of new growth.
    4. control: 1. Part of a scientific experiment in which no treatment has been applied in order to see whether there are any detectable differences to the experiment that did receive a treatment. 2. To hold in check or to curb.
    5. reservoir: 1. A natural or artificial structure that stores water. 2. An underground accumulation of natural gas or petroleum oil.
    6. pressure: The force per unit area that acts on the surface of an object.

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    Geothermal power

    The word geothermal comes from two Greek words – ‘geo’ meaning of the Earth, and ‘thermal’ meaning heat. Therefore, geothermal energy is energy produced from the heat of the Earth. If we took a ...

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      geothermal

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      2. Geothermal energy is energy produced from the heat of the Earth.

      control

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      3. 1. Part of a scientific experiment in which no treatment has been applied in order to see whether there are any detectable differences to the experiment that did receive a treatment.

      2. To hold in check or to curb.

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      4. 1. The rate at which work is done (defined as work divided by time taken).

      2. Mechanical or physical energy, force or momentum.

      reservoir

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      5. 1. A natural or artificial structure that stores water.

      2. An underground accumulation of natural gas or petroleum oil.

      renewable

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      6. Resources able to be sustained or renewed indefinitely, either because of inexhaustible supplies or because of new growth.

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      7. The force per unit area that acts on the surface of an object.

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