Sentence examples for tapping geothermal from inspiring English sources

While Southampton held out the vision of authorities generating power on a larger scale, Cornwall raised the prospect of tapping geothermal energy from the county's granite base.

A Japanese expert, Hirofumi Muraoka, calculates that one mid-sized northern city, Aomori, with a population about the size of Iceland's 318,000, could save enormously on imported fuel bills and heating costs by tapping geothermal springs nearby.

When addressing energy on the campaign trail, Mr. McCain and Ms. Palin have tended to focus on expanding supplies of fossil fuels even as they mention the need for solar panels, tapping geothermal energy and the like.

Among the distinguished zones of geothermal potential in India, the Puga Valley is identified as one of the potential sites for tapping geothermal energy at industrial scale.

Given uncertainties in establishing geothermal energy systems, decision-making in processes of tapping geothermal energy sources and related areas necessitates acknowledgment that these uncertainties are an inevitable given (cf. Gross 2013).

There is also an effort to tap geothermal energy.

Like the effort in Basel, the new project will tap geothermal energy by fracturing hard rock more than two miles deep to extract its heat.

Iceland has the advantage of being a nation of volcanoes, which has allowed it to tap geothermal sources of 85% of its heating and – with the assistance of hydropower – 100% of its electricity.

Its projects in the area run the gamut from a large solar power installation on its campus, to the promotion of plug-in hybrids, investments in clean energy start-ups like eSolar and AltaRock, a controversial project to tap geothermal energy in Northern California.

The most promising initiatives near term, he thinks, include solar thermal, high-altitude wind power and deep drilling to tap geothermal power.

And tapping into geothermal resources— a low-carbon, clean alternative to the oil and coal that dominate Indonesia's energy consumption — could help him realize another stated objective: to reduce greenhouse gas emissions at least 26 percent over the next decade.