The Union of Concerned Scientists has a great page dedicated to describing what geothermal energy is and so does the GRC. Please do yourself a favor and educate yourself on resources that are readily available that we currently have the science to make WORK for our country and the world. So many people are on the wagon for solar and wind and it seems like that is all you hear about in the media. The bottom line is that those two types of renewable energy are just not viable for our country. It would take huge fields of both windmills and solar panels to provide for our energy needs. Geothermal has a higher ROI, doesn’t require use of thousands of acres of land to be viable, and economically utilizes the reactor that is underneath all of our feet - the Earth. The more people pay attention to working SMARTER instead of working HARDER to find solutions, the more likely it will be that politicians will listen. Learn the word - understand the concept - and when the time comes to make some decisions on budgeting money, make sure your representatives know what you’d like the money spent on.