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=Use Geothermal Energy for a cleaner Earth. = You may be asking, "Why would I change from my normal electricity to Geothermal Energy?" Well, the problem with using your existing energy source is that it burns Fossil Fuels to create energy. When these fossil fuels are burned they emit a lot of Greenhouse Gases that cause Global Warming and ozone depletion (when CFCs react with chlorine to break up and destroy ozone atoms, creating a hole in the ozone that let in harmful UV rays). Plus, the chemicals released into the air with the Greenhouse Gases are unhealthy for humans, causing many health problems such as emphysema, lung cancer, and eye irritation

An easy solution to begin to stop this dangerous process could be to use geothermal energy. Geothermal energy is using water in wells in Earth's core to create steam that can turn turbines that create energy to consume. Geothermal Energy is a renewable resource but should be managed as not to be depleted. As you can see, geothermal energy uses little to no non- renewable reasources which means no Greenhouse Gas emissions.

Evidence that Global Warming is going on are: ice cores, melting glaciers, keeling graph, rising sea levels, change in weather patterns and more! The way that people know that geothermal enegy will help with pollution is that the geothermal energy plants that create the energy do not emit Greenhouse Gases. This means that none of the toxic chemicals that can cause health problems can get into the air. Using geothermal energy would be a huge step to eliminating the use of fossil fuels that emit tons of Greenhouse Gases a year; this means that there will be a huge drop in pollution levels. The price for the energy created is little; the total cost of a geothermal energy plant is actually less than the cost of building a coal, oil, or nuclear power plants. Also geothermal energy plants take up less space than coal, oil, or nuclear power plants do so that means the government doesn't need to buy as much land this can result in tax cuts or lower elictricity bills. The only thing that nees to be powered are the pumps in the plant which can actually be powered by the enegy the plant generates.

Extra Facts: -Geothermal Energy is when pumps extract steam from underground resouviors and use that setam to turn turbines which generate energy for people to use. Any leftover water is pumped back in to the well to be used again. -US is the number one producer of geothermal energy - The number one geothermal power plant in the world is Geysers in California -Currently 1.7 million households are using geothermal energy.

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