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___MASK82___ is heat energy generated and stored in the Earth . Thermal energy is the energy that determines the temperature of matter . The ___MASK82___ of the Earth ' s crust originates from the original ___MASK15___ of the planet and from radioactive decay of materials ( in currently uncertain but possibly roughly equal proportions ). The geothermal gradient , which is the difference in temperature between the core of the planet and its surface , drives a continuous conduction of thermal energy in the form of heat from the core to the surface . The adjective " geothermal " originates from the Greek roots "  ( ge )", meaning earth , and "  ( thermos )", meaning hot . A ___MASK55___ is the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population . It is a regularly occurring and official count of a particular population . The term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses ; other common censuses include agriculture , business , and traffic censuses . The United Nations defines the essential features of population and housing censuses as " individual enumeration , universality within a defined territory , simultaneity and defined periodicity ", and recommends that population censuses be taken at least every 10 years . United Nations recommendations also cover ___MASK55___ topics to be collected , official definitions , classifications and other useful information to co - ordinate international practice . Dixie ___MASK89___ , Nevada , was a small ranching town in Churchill County , Nevada until the area was acquired in 1995 by the US Navy for the Fallon Range Training Complex ( FRTC ) . The town had no retail businesses , most residents were more than a mile from their nearest neighbor , and a 1 - room school ( grades 1 - 8 ) was the teacher ' s residence and served as a meeting , dance , & election hall ( grades 9 - 12 were bussed 75 miles to Fallon , Nevada ) . The abandoned town of Dixie was established at the head of Dixie ___MASK89___ in 1861 and named by Southern sympathizers . The medium - sized Dixie ___MASK89___ geothermal power plant ( 1988 , 66 megawatts ) employs ~ 30 ___MASK67___ and has 12 production steam wells and ~ 24 injection wells . Nevada ( Spanish for " snowy "; see pronunciations ) is a ___MASK65___ in the Western , ___MASK76___ West , and Southwestern regions of the United States of America . Nevada is the 7th most extensive , the 34th most populous , and the 9th least densely populated of the 50 United States . Nearly three - quarters of Nevada ' s ___MASK67___ live in Clark County , which contains the Las Vegas  Paradise metropolitan area where three of the ___MASK65___ ' s four largest incorporated cities are located . Nevada ' s ___MASK59___ is Carson City . Nevada is officially known as the " Silver State " because of the importance of silver to its ___MASK58___ and economy . It is also known as the " Battle Born State ", because it achieved statehood during the Civil War ( the words " Battle Born " also appear on the ___MASK65___ ___MASK24___ ); as the " Sage - brush State ", for the native plant of the same name ; and as the " Sage - hen State ". Nevada borders Oregon to the northwest , Idaho to the northeast , California to the west , Arizona to the southeast and Utah to the east . A ___MASK25___ is an administrative center , seat of ___MASK72___ , or capital city of a county or civil parish . The term is used in the United States , Canada , Romania , China and Taiwan . In the United Kingdom and Ireland , county towns have a similar function . A U . S . ___MASK65___ is a constituent political entity of the United States of America . There are 50 states , which are bound together in a union with each other . Each ___MASK65___ holds administrative jurisdiction over a defined geographic territory , and shares its sovereignty with the United States ___MASK46___ . Due to the shared sovereignty between each ___MASK65___ and the ___MASK46___ , Americans are citizens of both the federal republic and of the ___MASK65___ in which they reside . State citizenship and residency are flexible , and no government approval is required to move between states , except for persons covered by certain types of court orders ( e . g ., paroled convicts and children of divorced spouses who are sharing custody ). Geothermal power is power generated by ___MASK82___ . Technologies in use include dry steam power stations , flash steam power stations and binary cycle power stations . Geothermal electricity generation is currently used in 24 countries , while geothermal heating is in use in 70 countries . The Lahontan ___MASK89___ is in Churchill County in the U . S . state of Nevada . The ___MASK89___ is a landform of the central portion of the prehistoric ___MASK44___ Lahontan ' s lakebed of 20 , 000 - 9 , 000 years ago . The ___MASK89___ and the adjacent Carson Sink represent a small portion of the lake bed , and Humboldt ___MASK44___ is to the ___MASK89___ ' s northeast ( Pyramid ___MASK44___ is west and Walker ___MASK44___ is south ). Aside from ___MASK93___ of Fallon , the railroad junction at Hazen , and the ___MASK92___ of Stillwater , the Lahontan ___MASK89___ is mostly uninhabited desert . During the era of the California trail the Lahontan and adjacent valleys to the northwest were called the Forty Mile Desert . Churchill ___MASK20___ is a ___MASK20___ located in the western U . S . state of Nevada . As of the 2010 ___MASK55___ , the population was 24 , 877 . Its ___MASK20___ seat is Fallon . The ___MASK20___ , named after Mexican - American War ___MASK96___ brevet Brigadier General Sylvester Churchill , was formed in 1861 . Fallon is a ___MASK94___ in Churchill ___MASK20___ , Nevada , United States . The ___MASK61___ was 8 , 606 at ___MASK9___ of the 2010 census . Fallon is the county seat of Churchill ___MASK20___ and is located in the Lahontan Valley . Geothermal heating is the direct use of ___MASK82___ for heating some applications . Humans have taken advantage of geothermal heat this way since the Paleolithic era . Approximately seventy countries made direct use of a total of 270 PJ of geothermal heating in 2004 . As of 2007 , 28 GW of geothermal heating capacity is installed around the world , satisfying 0 . 07 % of global primary energy consumption . Thermal efficiency is high since no energy conversion is needed , but capacity factors tend to be low ( around 20 %) since the heat is mostly needed in the winter . Sylvester Churchill ( ___MASK50___ 2 , 1783  ___MASK1___ 7 , 1862 ) was an American journalist and Regular Army officer .