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Can we draw electricity from the Earth's core?

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Theoretically, yes Practically, no The average estimated temperature of the Earth's core is roughly the surface of the sun. read more

We can generate electricity using the heat from within the Earth, this is called geothermal electricity. However, to my knowledge there is no way to directly draw a current from the core of the Earth. You might be thinking that since the molten iron core produces a magnetic field, that we could convert that into usable electricity. read more

On a web forum I frequent, a person asked if it would be possible to extract energy from the Earth’s magnetic field. He was told no – static magnetic fields can’t transfer energy. For all practical purposes this is true, but in fact we also know that the earth’s magnetic field isn’t static. read more

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