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  1. Site in the Tuscan hills, NE Italy, where the
  2. sulphur springs were used by the Romans for
  3. baths, and exploited for boric acid in the
  4. 18th-19th centuries. Since 1904 they have
  5. been used to generate electricity: the water
  6. reaches 220 degrees F.
  7.