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Top 10 Geothermal Countries

Can you name the ten countries that have the most installed geothermal power generational capacity?
As of 2019 according to Wikipedia
Hint: Think of places that have lots of volcanos!
Quiz by JGElias
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Last updated: March 25, 2021
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First submittedJuly 8, 2018
Times taken27,240
Average score60.0%
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Megawatts
Country
3,676
United States
2,133
Indonesia
1,918
Philippines
1,526
Turkey
1,005
New Zealand
Megawatts
Country
963
Mexico
944
Italy
861
Kenya
755
Iceland
601
Japan
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Level 93
Jul 23, 2018
If Iceland's geothermal power use was scaled up to service the population of the USA it would be easily be first with 643 Gigawatts (or about 531 Deloreans)
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Level 83
Jul 24, 2018
Great Scott!
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Level 62
Aug 31, 2019
That could create a time paradox, the results of which could cause a chain reaction that would unravel the very fabric of the space time continuum, and destroy the entire universe! Granted, that's a worse case scenario.
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Level 77
Jul 24, 2018
Good quiz. With a mixture of knowledge and guessing, I got them all except Kenya. For me that was a real surprise. One keeps learning by doing these quizzes (well, the Geographical ones anyway).
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Level 82
Jul 24, 2018
I thought that Iran was up there in the rankings.
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Level 69
Jul 24, 2018
Dang it, Kenya!
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Level 80
Jul 24, 2018
I don't even know how to spell Kanye.
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Level 66
Oct 3, 2018
your comment says otherwise.
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Level 61
Oct 4, 2018
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Level 78
Oct 12, 2022
Guess it depends what they were trying to spell.
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Level 60
Jul 24, 2018
thanks for the hint !
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Level 71
Jul 26, 2018
Good quiz......I was not doing too well and read the 'Hint' and then my game improved.
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Level 82
Jul 29, 2018
I thought of Russia but then they have lots of volcanoes where almost nobody lives.
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Level 79
Oct 1, 2018
Russia has lots of everything where no one lives
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Level 82
May 22, 2021
They don't have very many wild emus.
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Level 78
May 22, 2021
If nobody lives there, how do we know?
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Level 55
Oct 4, 2018
Volcanoes aren't usually directly used for geothermal power. Geothermal energy can be sourced from relatively near the surface. Volcanoes are just a good rule of thumb for places with high activity and that have more heat in the ground.
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Level 65
Oct 3, 2018
Given that I know nothing about geothermal energy or where it is used, I was pretty happy to get 7/10. Also, I'm perpetually impressed by Jetpunk users, this time for knowing that Iceland of all places produces a lot of geothermal power.
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Level 66
Oct 3, 2018
I thought Canada might top the list :(
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Level 59
May 23, 2021
im surprised i typed kenya :O
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Level 47
May 24, 2021
I got Kenya but not Italy or Turkey...
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Level 54
May 24, 2021
The plural of volcano is volcanoes. The second hint is wrong.
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Level 73
May 25, 2021
Either one is correct. It's one of those ambiguous plural words, like octopi/octopuses.
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Level 80
May 24, 2021
Wow. There were lots of surprises on this quiz. And the order of correct responses was different than I imagined.
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Level 61
Jul 6, 2021
Took a random guess at Kenya and it was right! Interesting quiz
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Level 61
Dec 16, 2022
El Salvador has geothermal energy plants.