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How ancient healing hot springs could fuel a clean energy future

One hot spring town shows how Japan could turn its underground cauldron of heat into clean energy
— without risking its centuries-old tradition of public bath

Tsuchiyu Onsen is a test case for how Japan could tap into an abundant source of clean power while preserving the country’s cultural identity.

Japan has the world’s third-biggest #geothermal #energy #reserves,
but it depends on imported fossil fuels for most of its electricity.

Experts say geothermal could provide about 10 percent of the country’s power,
if Japan took advantage of it.

The government plans to triple geothermal energy output this decade, from 0.3 percent of electricity production to 1 percent.

But one of the biggest barriers has been opposition from Japan’s hot spring industry.

Most of Japan’s geothermal energy reserves lie near one of the country’s more than 3,000 #hot #springs, called #onsens,
that play an important role in Japanese culture and tourism.

The owners of inns and bathhouses worry that geothermal development could damage their source of spring water, devastating their businesses.

washingtonpost.com/climate-sol

The Washington Post · How ancient healing hot springs could fuel a clean energy futureBy Nicolás Rivero
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#Sago is a tree that grows even without knowing the season and continues to grow to this day. Between our forests and land, there are many #springs which are the primary source of needs for the life of animals, trees, plants, and us everyday people.

Indigenous Peoples regard the forest as an inheritance given to our #ancestors and passed down to us from #generation to generation. The community divides the forest into a forest where we do gardening, a juvenile or former garden forest,

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