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A big boost for a climate solution: electricity made HEALTH

from the heat of the Earth DOCTOR ON DUTY

By JENNIFER McDERMOTT Oranjestad
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A California utility is backing
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to 125 wells in southwest Noord 527 3200
Utah. A drill rig stands at a Fervo Energy geothermal site under construction near Milford, Utah, Nov. 26, Sta. Cruz 527 2900
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The boost could go a long technology and practices the world’s first corporate solar farms by providing
way toward bringing down taken from the oil and gas agreement with Google in steady power when it’s not TAXI SERVICES
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decarbonization,” he said. the Earth’s heat to make about 200 miles south of Avianca 588 0059
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not had, you know, readily
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scaled up.
The first generation of
geothermal plants, for ex-
ample, The Geysers in Cali-
fornia, tapped into super-
heated reservoirs of steam
or very hot water close to
the Earth’s surface. Such
reservoirs are relatively rare. facebook.com/arubatoday/