Word: volcano
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...Howard and his son, Bruce, who was in high school at the time, took a trip to the Soufriere Hills Volcano in Montserrat in search of a now-extinct plant...
...remember trekking all day up the volcano. It was smoking, steaming at that point,” Bruce R. Howard said. “And he had me out front searching for this plant. I had no idea what it looked like...
...Confuse words that sound alike, such as tornado for volcano, or lotion for ocean...
...Amount officials are offering each household to move from the slopes of Mount Vesuvius, Italy's deadliest volcano...
...billion kW-h per year - while one-quarter of the entire Tuscan region's electricity comes from local steam energy production, feeding around a million households. Guido Cappetti, who heads the geothermal division for Enel, Italy's giant energy provider, puts it plainly: "Larderello is like a permanently unexploded volcano." The natural - and unique - abundance of hot liquids at relatively shallow depths provides a steady and frighteningly powerful torrent of steam to the surface. This steam, which hits the earth's surface at around 200C, shoots through massive steel pipelines and into turbines to produce electricity. The concentration of conducive...