How to Use geothermal in a Sentence

geothermal

adjective
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  • Investors are wary of the cost and risks of novel geothermal projects.
    — Brad Plumer, New York Times, 28 Aug. 2023
  • Would Reid have agreed with the tribe and pressured the city of L.A. — which is slated to buy the power — to back out of the geothermal plant?
    — Los Angeles Times, 6 Jan. 2022
  • There’s a large pond that functions as part of the geothermal system.
    — Kim Palmer, Star Tribune, 28 Aug. 2020
  • But even the East Coast has a sprinkling of its own geothermal splendor.
    — Stephanie Vermillion, Outside Online, 31 Jan. 2022
  • The building runs on geothermal energy and is the first of its kind in New England.
    — Ariana Bennett, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Feb. 2023
  • Wind power and geothermal heat aren’t enough to keep the world cool, according to a new study.
    — Erik Stokstad, Science | AAAS, 5 Nov. 2020
  • The house, which has air conditioning and a new geothermal heat pump, sits on a 1.1-acre lot.
    — John R. Ellement, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Apr. 2023
  • Google and Meta have been key partners for first-of-a-kind geothermal plants with young startups.
    — Katie Fehrenbacher, Axios, 11 Sep. 2024
  • The state also has geothermal power plants, which can run day and night.
    — Dave Merrill, Bloomberg.com, 18 Sep. 2020
  • One of the group’s concerns about the geothermal plant is that its water use will leave less to replenish the Salton Sea.
    — Melody Petersen, Los Angeles Times, 12 Aug. 2024
  • The third stop on my hot springs crawl was a geothermal swimming pool located in the heart of the capital.
    — Vanessa Wilkins, Travel + Leisure, 21 Nov. 2021
  • The star attraction, however, is the three geothermal hot spring pools on the grounds.
    — Shannon McMahon, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 June 2021
  • One option to lower costs might be geothermal heat, which draws on the temperature of the soil to heat and cool a home.
    — Irina Ivanova, CBS News, 27 Apr. 2021
  • Made with dark rye flour, the dough is enclosed in a metal pot before it's buried in the warm ground near geothermal springs and other hotspots.
    — Jen Rose Smith, CNN, 4 May 2022
  • Norris Hot Springs, a geothermal pool in Montana, can now be booked for two hours at a time by groups of 15 or fewer.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 31 Mar. 2021
  • But the key attraction is right there in the name: natural hot springs that feed three geothermal pools.
    — Michael Salerno, The Arizona Republic, 10 July 2024
  • The San Juan River flows through downtown’s heart and just past what is believed to be the world’s deepest geothermal hot springs aquifer.
    — Mindy Sink, The Denver Post, 24 July 2024
  • Annie and Jeffery did the same to rewire and add geothermal systems.
    — Amanda Sims Clifford, House Beautiful, 6 Apr. 2023
  • The plant runs on geothermal energy and is able to sequester 4,000 tons of carbon per year.
    — Time, 28 Dec. 2021
  • But then life did what life does, and all that youthful bravado leaked out through the lines in his face like steam through fissures in geothermal rock.
    — Carly Tagen-Dye, People.com, 1 Nov. 2024
  • There are already nearly a dozen geothermal power plants in the area, near the receding shoreline of the Salton Sea.
    — Sammy Rothstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2022
  • As a geothermal plant, Project Red is, by design, baseload power.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 29 Nov. 2023
  • Home heat pumps can even run on the geothermal energy in your backyard.
    — Matt Simon, Wired, 16 Mar. 2022
  • Ormat will construct three main parts of the entire geothermal project.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 13 May 2023
  • Warm up at Homestead Crater, a warm pool of geothermal waters in Midway.
    — Roger Sands, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2023
  • In those places, humans have been using geothermal energy since the dawn of time.
    — Tim Fitzpatrick, The Salt Lake Tribune, 30 Sep. 2022
  • Many newer homes are built with things like solar power and geothermal heat in mind.
    — Mike Wehner, BGR, 10 June 2021
  • All its units have geothermal heat, which keeps the energy cost low, Reinhardt said.
    — Judy Rose, Detroit Free Press, 16 Oct. 2021
  • The Pit River Tribe has long been involved in litigation to prevent the development of geothermal energy systems in the area.
    — Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 3 Jan. 2025
  • To compensate for the loss of natural gas generation, California will rely on tens of thousands of megawatts of power from a combination of battery energy storage, utility-scale solar and wind projects and geothermal resources.
    — Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Jan. 2025

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