German Geoscience Center Seeks Energy From Underground (Google News)
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Workers, at the request of the photographer, walk among test generators at an experimental geothermal facility operated by the
German Research Center for Geosciences at the Helmholtz Center in Postdam on September 12, 2012 near Schorfheide, Germany. The turbines, rated at about one megawatt each, will use heat in water pumped from deep underground and transferred via an organic rankine cycle. The project is funded by the German Ministry of Environment and researchers are seeking efficient ways to both create electricity and heat homes with geothermal energy.
