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Cold water is injected into fractured rock and is heated up as it is passed through the hot fractured rock. The hot water put through a heat exchanger. The geothermal heat causes the secondary fluid to flash to vapor which then turns a turbine and generator to produce electricity.

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Is there anything that uses geothermal energy to produce geothermal energy?

No. Geothermal energy comes from the earth's core!


What energy comes from the Earth's crust?

Geothermal energy


Does geothermal energy originally come from the sun?

No it doesn't because geothermal energy originally comes from the ground!


What is the intense heat from earths core called?

geothermal energy because geothermal energy is energy that comes from deep inside the earth


Is wind energy different from geothermal?

Yes. Wind energy comes from the wind. Geothermal (Geo = Ground, Thermal = Heat or temperature) comes from the heat in the ground.


What percentage of energy in the world comes from geothermal energy?

Geothermal energy currently contributes to less than 1% of the world's energy supply.


What do you call energy that comes from heat inside the Earth?

geothermal energy


Is geothermal from the sun?

Geothermal energy is not directly from the sun. It comes from the heat within the Earth's core due to radioactive decay of elements like uranium and thorium. This heat is continuously produced and used for geothermal energy generation.


What is the energy that comes for the center of the earth called?

Geothermal energy, u retard.


How is nuclear energy different from geothermal energy?

Geothermal energy comes from hot rock layers not far below the Earth's surface. Nuclear energy comes from changes in nuclei of certain elements. They are not related in any way


Is geothermal energy derived from the sun?

No, Geothermal energy comes from the earth.