technology allows the use of temperature resources as low as 81 C. In 2006, a binary cycle plant in Chena Hot Springs, Alaska, came on-line, producing electricity from a record low temperature of 57 C.

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The Earth has an internal heat content of 10³¹ joules (3·10¹⁵ TWh), About 20% of this is residual heat from planetary accretion;

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