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Current estimates put the amount of oil saved by using geothermal at about 14 million barrels a day worldwide, but that number may be about to explode. A recent MIT study predicts that with far less government help than is currently available in the development of other less reliable alternative energy sources, the percentage of U.S. electricity produced by geothermal could multiply from .03 per cent today to 10 per cent by 2050.
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