Geothermal energy

{
  "id": "MLC-T-ENV-012289",
  "term": "Geothermal energy",
  "field": "Environment",
  "definition": "1. Hot water or steam extracted from geothermal reservoirs in the earth's crust. Water or steam extracted from geothermal reservoirs can be used for geothermal heat pumps, water heating, or electricity generation.\n\n2. Heat from the earth. Resources of geothermal energy range from the shallow ground to hot water and hot rock found a few miles beneath the earth's surface, and down even deeper to the extremely high temperatures of molten rock.\n\n3. Heat from inside the Earth. People can use geothermal energy to heat buildings or produce electricity.\n\n4. Heat transferred from the earth's molten core to under-ground deposits of dry steam (steam with no water droplets), wet steam (a mixture of steam and water droplets), hot water, or rocks lying fairly close to the earth's surface.",
  "subject": "Climate change",
  "references": [
    "EIA Energy Glossary",
    "Top Green Home Terms",
    "Student's Guide to Global Climate Change",
    "Greenhouse Gas Emissions"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/environment/geothermal-energy/"
}