Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1895 — To Utilize the Earth's Heat. [ARTICLE]

To Utilize the Earth's Heat.

“Current Literature" thinks that one of the triumphs of the future engineers will be the sinking of a shaft 12,000 to 15,000 feet into the earth in order, to utilize the central heat of the globe. So great a depth, it is believed, may not bo impossible for the improved machinery of the coming scientist Watdr at a temperature of 200 centigrade, which will be obtained by these deep borings, will heat houses and public buildings, to say nothing of the power it would furnish. The plant once paid for, the only expense would be the keeping of the pipes In good condition. 1 ' Nature would do the rest ’ ’• ■ v h