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Cover 1 Contents 5 Preface 13 Acknowledgments 13 Chapter 1 Synopsis and Executive Summary 14 Synopsis 15 Scope 15 Motivation 15 Pursuing the geothermal option 16 Approach 17 Findings 17 Major recommendations 21 Executive Summary 22 1.1 Motivation and Scope 22 1.2 Defining EGS 23 1.3 U.S. Geothermal Resource Base 25 1.4 Estimating the Recoverable Portion of EGS 30 1.5 Geothermal Drilling Technology and Costs 32 1.6 EGS Reservoir Stimulation - Status of International Field Testing and Design Issues 34 1.7 Geothermal Energy Conversion Technology 37 1.8 Environmental Attributes of EGS 40 1.9 Economic Feasibility Issues for EGS 41 References 48 Chapter 2 Geothermal Resource-Base Assessment 49 2.1 Introduction 50 2.2 EGS Resource-Base Calculation - Temperature-at-Depth Maps 52 2.2.1 Heat flow 54 2.2.2 Geothermal gradients 55 2.2.3 Thermal conductivity 57 2.2.4 Sediment thickness 58 2.2.5 Ground surface temperature 60 2.2.6 Tectonic and radioactive components of heat flow 60 2.3 EGS Resource Maps and Resource Maps and Resource-Base Estimates - Lower 48 States 61 2.3.1 Heat (thermal energy) content 61 2.3.2 Crustal stress 67 2.3.3 EGS geology 67 2.3.4 Crustal permeability 69 2.3.5 High-gra
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- Author
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Publisher
- MIT Press (MA)
- Published
- 2006
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780615134383
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Engineering, Anthropology, Technology
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