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  CPYRGHT
  GEOTHERMAL ENERGY
  By KENNETH F. WEAVER
            HE SMELL OF 131ZIMSTONE hung on
       the air. Steam vents hissed at me like
       snakes. Craters of boiling mud seethed
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       and burped; black 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 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 from inside the earth.
  The cold, hard crust of our planet gives
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  the search for     
  energy             
  steam tapped from  
  underground reservoirs
                     

  roars through pressure-release
  vents at The       
                     

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  where the Pacific  
  Gas                
                     

  and Electric Company
  operates a generat-
                     

  ing plant. Stearn-driven
  turbines produc    
                     

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  a ci@ty of half    
  a million,         
                     

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  electricity.       
                     

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