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World First: Underwater Volcano Off US Coast Generates Net-Positive Electricity
An engineering team lowered a generator to the ocean floor and ran it using heat from an underwater volcano. They wanted to find out whether it could produce more electricity than it needed to operate.
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An engineering team lowered a generator to the ocean floor and ran it using heat from an underwater volcano. They wanted to find out whether it could produce more electricity than it needed to operate. Seattle-based Endurance Energy announced the results of its Adélie experiment on October 19 in a company press release .
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