How to Use geothermal in a Sentence

geothermal

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  • Investors are wary of the cost and risks of novel geothermal projects.
    Brad Plumer, New York Times, 28 Aug. 2023
  • Would Reid have agreed with the tribe and pressured the city of L.A. — which is slated to buy the power — to back out of the geothermal plant?
    Los Angeles Times, 6 Jan. 2022
  • But even the East Coast has a sprinkling of its own geothermal splendor.
    Stephanie Vermillion, Outside Online, 31 Jan. 2022
  • The building runs on geothermal energy and is the first of its kind in New England.
    Ariana Bennett, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Feb. 2023
  • The house, which has air conditioning and a new geothermal heat pump, sits on a 1.1-acre lot.
    John R. Ellement, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Apr. 2023
  • Google and Meta have been key partners for first-of-a-kind geothermal plants with young startups.
    Katie Fehrenbacher, Axios, 11 Sep. 2024
  • One of the group’s concerns about the geothermal plant is that its water use will leave less to replenish the Salton Sea.
    Melody Petersen, Los Angeles Times, 12 Aug. 2024
  • The third stop on my hot springs crawl was a geothermal swimming pool located in the heart of the capital.
    Vanessa Wilkins, Travel + Leisure, 21 Nov. 2021
  • Made with dark rye flour, the dough is enclosed in a metal pot before it's buried in the warm ground near geothermal springs and other hotspots.
    Jen Rose Smith, CNN, 4 May 2022
  • But the key attraction is right there in the name: natural hot springs that feed three geothermal pools.
    Michael Salerno, The Arizona Republic, 10 July 2024
  • The San Juan River flows through downtown’s heart and just past what is believed to be the world’s deepest geothermal hot springs aquifer.
    Mindy Sink, The Denver Post, 24 July 2024
  • Annie and Jeffery did the same to rewire and add geothermal systems.
    Amanda Sims Clifford, House Beautiful, 6 Apr. 2023
  • The plant runs on geothermal energy and is able to sequester 4,000 tons of carbon per year.
    Time, 28 Dec. 2021
  • There are already nearly a dozen geothermal power plants in the area, near the receding shoreline of the Salton Sea.
    Sammy Rothstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2022
  • As a geothermal plant, Project Red is, by design, baseload power.
    IEEE Spectrum, 29 Nov. 2023
  • Home heat pumps can even run on the geothermal energy in your backyard.
    Matt Simon, Wired, 16 Mar. 2022
  • Ormat will construct three main parts of the entire geothermal project.
    Anchorage Daily News, 13 May 2023
  • Warm up at Homestead Crater, a warm pool of geothermal waters in Midway.
    Roger Sands, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2023
  • In those places, humans have been using geothermal energy since the dawn of time.
    Tim Fitzpatrick, The Salt Lake Tribune, 30 Sep. 2022
  • It cannot be ruled out that the drilling of geothermal wells had resulted in soil loss and land subsidence in the area, the Tianjin government said.
    Reuters, NBC News, 9 June 2023
  • Even so, some lava did flow west toward a power plant and the Blue Lagoon, a famous geothermal spa.
    Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 13 Feb. 2024
  • For instance, this geothermal greenhouse has been extremely popular over the years, and the builder did it for less than $300!
    Stacy Tornio, Treehugger, 24 Jan. 2023
  • Luckily, the eruption so far has not been in main part of Grindavík, the Blue Lagoon or the geothermal power plant nearby.
    Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 19 Dec. 2023
  • The process created a network of hot springs all over the island, where today people go to dissolve their stress in geothermal heat.
    Alexandra Kleeman, Travel + Leisure, 29 Oct. 2023
  • There’s another challenge to going geothermal: finding a place to drill the wells.
    Jon Chesto, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Dec. 2022
  • In such a world, wind turbines and solar farms will spread over fields and coastlines, while geothermal plants draw power from below.
    Matthew Hutson, The New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2022
  • My Twitter followers were not pleased to learn about the opposition to the geothermal plant.
    Los Angeles Times, 13 Jan. 2022
  • A few months ago, the United States seemed to be on the verge of deploying solar and wind farms, geothermal plants, and even advanced nuclear plants across the country.
    Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 19 Mar. 2022
  • Some houses use geothermal heat pumps, which harness energy from the earth to heat their homes during the winter.
    Julian Quinones, CNN, 11 Nov. 2021
  • Electricity for the data center’s servers would come from the geothermal and solar plants built near the site in an area that has become known as Lithium Valley.
    Roger Vincent, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2024

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