Iceland is geology in action. A one-hour flight from Reykjavik skims over steaming geothermal areas, the great crustal rift and some of the country's most famous volcanoes.
冰岛的国土一直处于地质活跃中。从雷克雅未克乘飞机飞行一个小时，途中尽是冒着蒸汽的地热区、巨大的地壳裂缝以及岛国最著名的几座火山。
Giant tube worms, crabs, and shrimp live in the dark, a mile below the ocean surface, huddled around superheated geothermal vents.
巨型管蠕虫，螃蟹和小虾生活在海洋表面以下一英里的黑暗之中，挤在海底灼热的地热喷口附近。
A geothermal heat pump works like a regular heat pump, only it pulls heat out of the ground instead of the air.
地热泵的工作方式与普通的热力泵相同，区别只是地热泵是从地下吸热而不是从空中。
Iceland has already begun constructing a hydrogen grid using plentiful geothermal energy.
冰岛已经着手建设一座利用丰富地热能源的氢气站。
You see, the Earth's heat never stops—meaning a geothermal power plant can produce electricity as regularly as a nuclear power plant can.
大家知道吗，地球从不停止发热——这意味着一家地热发电厂能像一家核电站那样规律地发电。
Enhanced geothermal systems - also known as EGS or "hot dry rock geothermal" - are a newer approach that could be exploited in a larger number of locations.
而加强型地热系统——也叫做EGS或“干热岩地热系统”——是一种能够在各种地区大规模加以应用的新方法。
A geothermal power plant in the basement will provide low-cost energy for heating water as well as keeping the building warm in the winter.
地下室的地热电站能提供低成本的热水，并且能在冬季为建筑供暖。
The Basel project targeted a particularly sensitive seismic area, and drilled in the middle of a city because of plans to divert steam for heating buildings, another use of geothermal energy.
巴塞尔项目在一个非常敏感的多地震区域施工，而且为了利用地热为建筑供暖，该项目在市中心地区进行钻探。
Ditkof said, "Very shallow magma chambers mean there is a very shallow geothermal heat source that could be tapped, " for example to generate steam to power turbines in electrical plants, she said.
迪特科夫说，极浅的岩浆库意味着有极浅的地热资源可供开发，它们可产生蒸汽来驱动发电厂的涡轮。 “如果能够加以利用，地热潜能会让人惊讶不已。”
Blackwell contributed to a broad study released in 2007 that predicted geothermal could provide one tenth of U.S. power by 2050.
布莱克威尔参与编写了一份内容广泛的研究报告。这份报告在2007年公布，预言到2050年，地热将提供十分之一的全美能源。
Using a geothermal system, for example, required the well-digger, the heating and cooling specialist and the plumber to work together.
比如说，使用地热系统就要求地热专家和管道工一同协作。
The same could happen to solar energy, which is ten years behind wind, and geothermal, with a 20-year lag.
太阳能也会如此，但太阳能的应用比风能晚10年，比地热晚20年。
Enhanced geothermal systems, or 'hot rocks', can be exploited in a larger number of locations and operate 24 hours a day.
加强型地热系统，或者叫做“热岩”(' hot rocks ')，可以在许多地方加以应用，并且能够全天24小时不间断运转。
Engineers would, in a sense, be making their own geysers, and this opens up far more of the globe for geothermal energy development.
工程师在某种意义上正在这样制造自己的喷泉，这使得我们能在世界更多的地区进行地热能源开发。
Same thing is happening with geothermal, "he said." you're running a pump and a compressor all of the time, and you get consistently high electric bills, but for 12 months, not just during summer.
“使用地热也会出现同样的情况，”他说，“热力泵和空气压缩机时刻都在运转，你会不断收到高额的电费账单，是一年12个月都会收到，而不仅仅是夏季。”
Dry steam, the oldest geothermal technology, takes steam out of fractures in the ground and USES it to directly drive a turbine.
干蒸汽发电是最古老的地热利用技术，从地面断层开采出蒸汽并直接用于驱动汽轮机。
The smelters would need energy from a handful of new geothermal power plants and the building of DAMS that would damage pristine wilderness, hot springs and lava fields.
冶炼厂所需要的能源来自少数新的地热发电站，而建设水坝将破坏原始的荒野，温泉和熔岩原。
Unlike solar and wind energy, geothermal energy is always available, 365 days a year.
不同于太阳能与风能的是地热能一年365天，天天都能够利用。
Its standard configuration includes a solar thermal system which is invisibly integrated into the zinc facade, as well as a geothermal system with a high-efficiency heat pump.
其标准配置包括一个太阳能集热系统，它不露痕迹地与锌表层融为一体，以及一个拥有高效热泵的地热系统。
There's a hot pool near one of the huts but the geothermal water also feeds into nearby streams for more temperate bathing.
在当地的一处棚舍中有一个温泉池，但地热水也汇聚到其他小溪中，可以舒适地泡浴。
With its cool climate, abundant geothermal energy and secure remoteness, Iceland appears to be a prime location for data archives.
它的理由基于冰岛的优势：气候凉爽、地热能源丰富并偏远安全，是数据储存的理想地点。
In 2008 workers doing exploratory drilling for a geothermal plant reported that they had accidentally broken through to a shallow magma chamber near the Big Island's Kilauea volcano.
2008年，工人们在为一家地热电厂进行勘探钻井时，发现他们无意之间穿透了大岛基拉韦厄火山附近的一个浅表岩浆库。
Geothermal reservoirs are like capped geysers: When humans drill a hole, hot stuff comes up, which can be used to run a turbine.
地热贮藏就像是加了盖子的间歇泉：钻一个洞，热能就会冒出来，人们可以用它来驱动涡轮机。
The new development will include a central park that utilizes a geothermal heat-exchange system to help passively heat and cool all of the district's buildings.
在这个新开发区，将建造一个带有地热转换系统的中心公园，以解决各建筑间的冷热调节问题。
For example, he said, a geothermal plant is currently in the works in Kenya.
他举例说，肯尼亚正在筹备建造一个地热发电站。
It has even portrayed geothermal energy in this volcanic land as a threat, since it might pollute the country's beloved onsen, or hot springs.
甚至有人提出，利用火山地热能源也是威胁，因为这可能破坏日本人钟爱的温泉。
Far more promising is geothermal energy, since Alaska lies on the "ring of fire", a string of volcanoes that encircles the Pacific Ocean.
阿拉斯加的地热资源具有较大的发展前景，因为该州位于环太平洋的火山带上。
It's inaccessible in winter, but by summer the road is clear and hikers arrive to soothe their muscles with a quick dip in the geothermal waters that feed into local Brooks.
在冬天很难到达该地，但在夏天，当道路上没有什么车辆时，徒步旅行者会在到来后在地的热水中快速浸泡，以缓和他们肌肉的酸痛。这些地表水最后汇聚成细流小溪。
But geothermal, virtually free of carbon emissions and more reliable than intermittent wind and solar energy, still provides only a small slice of the world's energy.
地热实际上完全没有碳排放，而且比无法持续发电的风能和太阳能更可靠。但是即便如此，地热在世界能源供给中只占了非常小的一部分。
But geothermal, virtually free of carbon emissions and more reliable than intermittent wind and solar energy, still provides only a small slice of the world's energy.
地热实际上完全没有碳排放，而且比无法持续发电的风能和太阳能更可靠。但是即便如此，地热在世界能源供给中只占了非常小的一部分。
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