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Action to be Taken When Fossil Energy is Getting Scarce.

It has been a public secret that Fossil energy is significantly running out of
stock. Renewable energy, such as Solar energy, Wind Energy, Bioenergy,
Hydropower, Ocean energy, Hydrogen & Fuel cells, Green power, and Geothermal
energy may sustain this problem, but for how long? Even when the oil price was
decreasing we had suffered enough. We have to switch over renewable energy as our
Primary energy, so we can survive. In this opportunity, I would like to deliver my
thought about Geothermal Energy.
Heat from the Earth, thats what geothermal is. Its range from shallow ground
to hot water and hot rock found a few miles beneath the Earths surface, and down
even deeper to the extremely high temperatures of molten rock called magma. The
amount of heat within 10 kilometers of Earths surface contains 50,000 times more
energy than all the oil and natural gas resources in the world, yet its clean and
sustainable. Many technologies have been developed to take advantage of geothermal
energy so it can be used for Geothermal electricity production many power plants
still use fossil fuels to boil water for steam, the steam rotates a turbine that activates a
generator, which produces electricity, geothermal power plants, however, use steam
produced from reservoirs of hot water found a couple of miles or more below the
Earth's surface, and geothermal direct use applications include heating buildings,
growing plants in greenhouses, drying crops, heating water at fish farms, and several
industrial processes such as pasteurizing milk.
Plentiful advantages of geothermal energy are clearly tempting for me. It can
be extracted without burning a fossil fuel such as coal, gas, or oil. Geothermal fields
produce only about one-sixth of the carbon dioxide that a relatively clean natural-gasfueled power plant produces. Binary plants release essentially no emissions. Unlike
solar and wind energy, geothermal energy is always available, 365 days a year. It's
also relatively inexpensive; savings from direct use can be as much as 80 percent over
fossil fuels. But it has some environmental problems. The main concern is the release
of hydrogen sulfide, a gas that smells like rotten egg at low concentrations. Another
concern is the disposal of some geothermal fluids, which may contain low levels of
toxic materials. Although geothermal sites are capable of providing heat for many
decades, eventually specific locations may cool down.
Indonesia production of geothermal energy itself reserves about 40 percent of
the worlds geothermal, which estimated to contain the world's largest geothermal
energy reserves and therefore contains huge potential for this renewable energy.

However, this potential remains largely untapped. Today, Indonesia only uses four to
five percent of its geothermal capacity. Inspite of Indonesia has the largest geothermal
reserves in the world. Yet, the government's failure to manage its natural resources
effectively and reform its regulatory environment remains an obstacle to fully tap into
the country's renewable energy wealth. Some obstacles included politics, Indonesias
uncompetitive power tariffs, and being hampered by poor infrastructure development
in the countrys isolated regions, local communities opposition to these projects and
bureaucracy.

Regardly,
Ratu Atikah Balqis
4499806
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