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                NUMBl"-_"R- 0094 (Tng) SESSION NUMBE"E.R.
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                (S/NF~/S1,.') COMMENTS. No Physi(-.-al Incl emenc.i es. 052 had goad
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   GEOTHERMAL ENERGY
   The Powep
   of LeRing
   Off Steam
        By KENNETH F. WEAVER
   CPYRGHT
             HE SMELL OF BR]MSTONE hung on
        the air. Steam vents hissed at me like
        snake&. Craters of boiling mud seethed
        T
        and burped; bla)ck bubbles formed,
   swelled, and collapsed with rude plops.
   Heat had created a scabrous landscape al-
   most devoid of vegetation and stained with
   yellow streaks of sulfur and the white crusts
   of mineral salts. It suggested an outpost of
   Dante's Inferno--although it bore the more
   earthly name Laguna Volcano.
        Only a short distance away, towering
   plumes of steam sent a muffled roar to my
   ears. These plumes marked the location of
   the new Cerro Prieto power plant in northern
   Mexico. The heat that drove the electric gen-
   erators of Cerro Prieto was the same heat
   that had created the wasteland at ray feet. It
   was the terrible heat from inside the earth.
   The cold, hard crust of our planet gives
   Plumes of hope in the search for energy,
   steam tapped from underground reservoirs
   roars through pressure-release vents at The
   Geysers steam field, where the Pacific Gas
   "Ind Electric Company operates a generat-
   ing plant. $tearn-driven turbines produce
   enough powe& for a c4y of half a million.
   The California facility is the only one in the
   U. S. now turning earth heat into electricity.
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