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** Disadvantages of Geothermal Energy **

 * ** Extremely hot wastewater from geothermal power plants can run into streams, lakes, and oceans and disrupt the local food chains **
 * ** Wastewater from geothermal power plants also may contain poisionus chemicals like lead, mercury, arsenic, and can be radioactive **
 * ** Geothermal wells give off poisonous gasses and smell like rotten eggs **
 * ** Geothermal power plants produce only 1% of U.S. energy **
 * ** Generating geothermal energy requries water and that water is mineral rich, so it corrodes metal, and it buids up on turbines **
 * ** Big geothermal plants may cost a lot of money **
 * ** Finding a geothermal power plant site make take sevral years, and most surveys disapoint the people that asked for the surveys **
 * ** Geothermal power plant locations may be in a bad enviornment for humans, like Antartica[[image:dieterichpm/geothermal-energy-power-plant.GIF align="left" caption="from solar.calfinder.com"]] **

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