Crossword clues for geothermal
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. pertaining to heat energy extracted from reservoirs in the earth's interior
WordNet
adj. of or relating to the heat in the interior of the earth [syn: geothermic]
Wikipedia
Geothermal is related to energy and may refer to:
- The geothermal gradient and associated heat flows from within the Earth
- Geothermal energy, the thermal energy generated and stored in the Earth
- Geothermal exploration, the search for commercially usable geothermal energy
Usage examples of "geothermal".
There were fourteen terawatt generators that supplied power for the Net along with some relatively small secondary sources such as geothermal areas where the nannites bled off power to prevent eruptions and other disturbances.
Khyntor at last Valentine directed Asenhart to make his landfall not in the city proper, but across the river in the southern suburb of Hot Khyntor, where the geothermal wonders were, the geysers and fumaroles and simmering lakes.
L would be deprived of seven hundred thousand kilowatts from its normally reliable geothermal source, and would need to find an equivalent amount of power elsewhere.
Life arises from clay substrates, geothermal vents, solar-heated tidal pools, lightning discharges in atmosphere .
The roof and walls were studded with sunstones, excited to thermofluoresence by the geothermal heat of the mountain.
Not far away were other geothermal wellheads, their natural pressurized steam deflected into huge insulated pipes.
And I suppose you'll have the same kind of objections to the Fincastle geothermal plant and Devil's Cate pumped storage, both of which are the cleanest type of operation known to man or nature.
The place was typical of the subnivean hollows that gave the Denali planetary park its name: an irregular cave as big as a good-sized room, melted from the permanent icefield by the heat of a small geothermal spring.
Part of it was that several years of drought and famine had exhausted the resources of the developing nations, and part of it was that with the widespread growth of fusion power, hydrogen-, methane-, and alcohol-fuels, plus assorted other sources like biomass, geothermal, wind-power, ocean current-turbines, and so onall in addition to solar energythe world's appetite for oil had dropped dramatically.
The ash cone, in turn, was the outrider of a large area of geothermal activity.
The Aetryx, apparently, evolved originally as a subterranean life form, one dependent on the geothermal and chemical energies at the base of deep volcanic vents.
Moon Mary was packed with geothermal energy, easily extracted through steam wells.
Phil only came to suspect his device might be developed for weaponry instead of geothermal energy.
Maybe you can send out some of your kitchen staff, after you build them stoves, geothermal energy is available under every one of those home caverns.
The mines and the major industrial centers appeared to be deep underground, where the planets geothermal energy was easily tapped.