How to Use geothermal in a Sentence

geothermal

adjective
  • All its units have geothermal heat, which keeps the energy cost low, Reinhardt said.
    Judy Rose, Detroit Free Press, 16 Oct. 2021
  • That's a problem that's easily solved in Iceland, where green geothermal power is abundant.
    Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 20 Oct. 2021
  • The machines at Orca are powered by geothermal energy from the Hellisheiði power plant.
    Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 20 Oct. 2021
  • And the property sat atop the Memphis Sand Aquifer, which could be used to generate geothermal power.
    Cameron McWhirter, WSJ, 15 Oct. 2021
  • The government is now exploring ways to issue sovereign bonds tied to bitcoin and to create new bitcoin with geothermal power.
    New York Times, 7 Oct. 2021
  • Ahuachapan is one of two geothermal plants in El Salvador, with the other in eastern El Salvador.
    Shawn Tully, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2021
  • Today, people use geothermal heat for bathing, heating buildings during the winter, and to generate electricity.
    Rachel Ramirez, CNN, 7 Oct. 2021
  • Another option would use geothermal energy to pump heat for buildings through new pipelines, but even that relies in part on the use of decarbonized gas and existing gas infrastructure.
    BostonGlobe.com, 15 Oct. 2021
  • 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
  • That would effectively give geothermal some parity with oil and gas, which already gets similar categorical exclusions.
    Daniel Moore, Axios, 25 Sep. 2024
  • Nevertheless, locals remain concerned about the pollution caused by geothermal energy production and its negative impacts on air, water and soil quality.
    Kristi Holmes, Chicago Tribune, 14 Oct. 2024

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