Children's Nonfiction Environmental Conservation & Protection
Geothermal Energy: Using Earth's Furnace
- Publisher
- Crabtree Publishing Company
- Initial publish date
- Jun 2008
- Category
- Environmental Conservation & Protection, Electricity & Electronics, Discoveries
- Recommended Age
- 9 to 10
- Recommended Grade
- 4 to 5
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780778729310
- Publish Date
- Jun 2008
- List Price
- $10.95
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780778729174
- Publish Date
- Jun 2008
- List Price
- $25.95
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Description
The need for safe sources of renewable energy has sent scientists underground to tap the natural heat produced by the Earth. Geothermal Energy: Using Earth’s Furnace describes the three different ways electricity is produced from geothermal energy. Young readers will discover how this clean, safe energy is currently being used in twenty countries including the United States, the largest producer of geothermal energy.
About the author
Carrie Gleason est auteure et éditrice. Elle a écrit quatre des livres de la collection Le Canada vu de près soient Ressources naturelles, Colombie-Britannique, Nouvelle-Écosse et Nunavut. Carrie habite Toronto, en Ontario.
Carrie Gleason is a writer and editor living in Toronto. She has written three previous books in the Canada Close Up (Le Canada vu de près) series: British Columbia, Nova Scotia and Nunavut (Colombie-Britannique, Nouvelle-Écosse et Nunavut).
