The advantages of this energy source to the community/environment are:
- little to carbon-free energy production
- no high-tech planning (simple requirements such as pipes, compressors, and labor)
- with EGS, it is accessible almost anywhere (as long as you dig far enough)
- harnessed in many different ways (for ex., can be used to heat/cool a home and can also be use to generate electricity!)
- when accessed, it is available all day, every day, year-round
- there’s more than enough accessible EGS energy to power the entire planet for thousands of years (according to a recent MIT report)
This is an energy source that will be beneficial to us in the future because it will not run out, like fossil fuels and coal, because heat is constantly generated by the core of the Earth. As long as there is heat beneath us, we can utilize the heat energy to warm our homes or generate steam to power electricity-generating turbines. In other words, geothermal energy is a sustainable energy source and will be beneficial to us in the future because it cannot run out, it doesn’t contribute to global warming, and it can now be accessed almost anywhere in the world.
Geothermal Energy! 