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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: STARGATE
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP96-00789R001700300001-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 14
• Document Creation Date: November 4, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 13, 1998
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: February 7, 1985
• Content Type: HW

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GEOTHERMAL ENERGY
The Power
of Letting
Off Steam
THE 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 tiny 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
Geysers steam field, where the Pacific Gas
and Electric Company operates a generat-
ing plant Steam-driven turbines ornduce
enough ! for a cty of half a million.
The California facility is the only one in the
U. S. now turning earth heat into electricity.
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