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This Town Is Being Powered By The Earth Itself

Deep beneath the rugged hills of Cornwall, England, rocks have been quietly cooking at nearly 200 degrees Celsius for millions of years, and now, for the very first time, the UK is finally putting all of that heat to work. After nearly two decades of planning, drilling, and determination, a landmark geothermal power plant has been switched on at a site called United Downs, sending clean electricity to the national grid and into the homes of up to 10,000 people. To make it happen, engineers had to drill three miles straight down into the earth, making it the deepest onshore well ever drilled in the United Kingdom. The result is a completely new kind of renewable power for the country, one that runs 24 hours a day, seven days a week, with no wind needed and no sunshine required.

Unlike solar panels that go dark at night or wind turbines that sit idle on calm days, geothermal electricity flows constantly, powered by heat that the earth has been storing for billions of years. But the plant’s ambitions do not stop at electricity: the superheated water drawn from underground also carries dissolved lithium, making this the UK’s first domestic commercial source of the critical mineral used to make the batteries that power electric vehicles and store renewable energy. The CEO of the company behind the project described the moment the plant switched on as the result of 15 years of hard work and difficulties finally paying off, and industry leaders are calling it a genuine game-changer for British energy. With similar geothermal potential sitting untapped beneath Scotland and parts of northern England, many now hope this Cornwall breakthrough will be just the beginning of a whole new chapter in the UK’s clean energy story.

Source: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-death-valley-covered-in-an-ethereal-blanket-of-wildflowers/

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