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 By KENNETH F. WEAVER
 HE SMELL OF BRIMSTONE hung on
 the air. Steam vents hissed at me like
 snakes. Craters of boiling mud seethed
 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 heat 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
 Plumes of hope in the search for energy
 steam tapped from underground reservoirs
 roars through pressure-release vents at The
 Ge'.-sers steam field, where the Pacific Gas
 and Electric Company operates a generat-
 ing plant Steam-driven turbims P
 enough DoWer for a 4-y of half a million.
 The California facility is the only one in the
 U. S. now turning earth heat into el-App
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