(ThomasNet News)
As renewable power goes, geothermal electrical generation somehow attains less prominence than other renewables, possibly because its physical manifestation involves drilling shafts in the ground rather than constructing sexy facilities like dams, wind towers, or solar arrays.
Nonetheless, geothermal deserves to be considered in our ongoing series about the “Damage Done” environmentally by electrical power production. Certainly, no important generation method should escape our scrutiny. But, as we shall see, geothermal is shaping up to be an important energy source — and it stacks up quite well against other sources, when we start comparing external environmental effects.
