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Based on some additional clarifications of the cosmological model of the formation of the Solar System it was shown that the main source of the Earth’s energy are thermonuclear processes in the inner Earth’s core consisting of metallic hydrides. This energy is quite significant, but it is substantially smaller (by about three orders of magnitude) than the energy received from the Sun. The proposed hypothesis suggests a presence of hydrogen fluxes or deep fluids propagating from the Earth’s core and transporting thermal energy from the thermonuclear reactions to the Earth’s surface. This energy has been a primary reason for the endogenic, geodynamic and tectonic processes over the course of the Earth’s whole history.
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Published in Russian in Izvestiya Krymskoi Astrofizicheskoi Observatorii, 2011, Vol. 107, pp. 152–164.
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Terez, E.I., Terez, I.E. Thermonuclear processes in the core is the main source of energy of geodynamic evolution and degassing of the earth. Bull.Crim. Astrophys. Observ. 107, 103–112 (2011). https://doi.org/10.3103/S0190271711010153
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