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How to use geothermal energy

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  1. A.A.L. White is a Research Officer at the Central Electricity Generating Board's Marchwood Engineering Laboratories. S. W. Richardson, a Lecturer in Geology and Fellow of St. Edmund Hall Oxford, is currently on leave at Marchwood.

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    Richardson, S., White, A. How to use geothermal energy. Nature 286, 103–104 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1038/286103a0

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