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Re: Yellowstone Geothermal Power
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Originally Posted by Jethro Tull
We could supply the whole counties power just from Yellowstone.
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It is a site rule that you support your claims. Please consider this when making claims such as the one above. Can you provide a link that shows the feasibility of this?
I'm not an expert in geothermal energy, but I'm quite sure that an area the size of Yellowstone could not provide anywhere close to enough energy to power the whole US. My suspicions seem justified by this wiki article:
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Although geothermal power plants, concentrated in the West, provide the third largest domestic source of renewable electricity after hydroelectricity and biomass, they currently produce less than one percent of total U.S. electricity supply. However, a geothermal resource assessment shows that nine western states together have the potential to provide over 20 percent of national electricity needs.[2]
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Geothermal energy in the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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