1. By: Esmeralda Bolanos and bryanna Vazquez
Geothermal energy
By: Esmeralda Bolanos and bryanna Vazquez

2. What is Geothermal energy?
Geothermal energy is energy that heat is derived below the earths surface which can be harnessed to generate clean. Renewable energy.
Geothermal energy is generally considered environmentally friendly and does not cause significant amounts of pollution
Geothermal energy is the heat from the shallow ground to hot water and hot rocks found
Geothermal energy works by using the heat created by the earth and turing it int an energy source for people to us

3. Why geothermal energy?
Geothermal energy is clean, inexpensive and easy to use and it can be used to heat or cool down buildings
Geothermal heat can also be used to produce electricity in geothermal power plant
Geothermal resources can be harnessed for power production without importing
Geothermal power plants consume less water on average over the lifetime energy output than the most conventions generation technologies

4. Pros of Geothermal energy
It does not cause significant amounts of pollution
Geothermal energy is available everywhere, although only some resources are profitably exploitable
Great for heating and cooling even small household can befits
Does not involve any fuels, which means less cost fluctuations and stable electricity prices

5. Cons for geothermal energy
More suitable for new home builds as retrofitting involves large scale excavation
Electricity is still needed to operate heat pumps
It may ran out of steam
Large scale geothermal power plants are dangerous to the earths surface and location centric
Geothermal heat pumps still needs a power source that can run it
Geothermal pumps cost between $10,000- $ 20,000 that can pay off itself in another 5-10 year