A report by Samantha Meredith .This report is about geothermal power.

What is solar/geothermal/wave/wind power?

Geothermal power is heat from the ground.Geothermal power can heat lots of things up.

Where is this type of power generated in New Zealand?There are nine power stations in new zealand that generate. They are plThere are nine power stations in new zealand that generate. They are planning to

build geothermal power stations in northland, bay of plenty and Waikato.

How does this power generator work? You could draw a diagram.

They put a pipe in the ground. It sucks up the steam witch turns the turbine. The turbine makes power and it goes down the power line to your house.

Could we use this type of power at school?Yes we could because we could just ring up and

order for the geothermal power station to supply us with geothermal power.

Conclusion i.e. why you think this power could be used at school to run our heater.

We could run our school with it because there are a lot of geothermal power stations so it will be cheap.

References

Wikipedia1.www.ew.govt.nz/enviroiofo/geothermal/energ

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www.teava.govt.nz/earthseaandsky/Hotspringsand GeothemalEnergy/3en

3.Sally Margon,EnergyNowandInto the Future,RelithaPessLtd,1999