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Off S1,508M
    M~HE STMELL OF RRMSTONE bung on
the air. Steam vents hissed a, me like
snakes. Craters of boiling mud seethed
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                    
     o-                                      
     '                                       
                                             

     Dante                                   
     s Inferno-although it                   
     bore the mom                            
                                             

     earthly name Laguna                     
     Volcano.                                
                                             

     Only a short distance                   
     away, towering                          
                                             

     Plumes of steam sent                    
     a muffled row to mv                     
                                             

     tfars. These plumes                     
     marked the location                     
     of                                      
                                             

     the new Cerro Prieto                    
     power plant in northern                 
                                             

     Mexico. The beat that                   
     drove the electric                      
     gen-                                    
                                             

     erators of Cerro Prieto                 
     was the same heat                       
                                             

     that had created the                    
     wasteland at my feet.                   
     It                                      
                                             

     was the terrible 'heat                  
     frorn inside the earth-                 
                                             

     The cold, h&-d 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                   
                                             

     WA Electric Company                     
     openrtes a gene-a-                      
                                             

     ing plant Stearn-driven                 
     turbin                                  
                                             

     enough on= for a cVy                    
     of half a rnilhon.                      
                                             

     The CaliforniallacHity                  
     is the only one in                      
     the                                     
                                             

     U. S. now ' turning                     
     earth heat into electricity.                 
                                             

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