Report to the Chairman, Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight, Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, House of Representatives. Geothermal Energy: Outlook limited for some uses but promising for geothermal heat pumps
Technical Report
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OSTI ID:188470
Heat from the Earth, or geothermal energy, has the potential to help meet the nation`s electricity needs, yet it supplies less than 1% of the nation`s electricity. This GAO review describes the potential for three uses of geothermal energy - electrical generation, direct-use applications, and geothermal heat pumps - and, for each of these uses, the obstacles to their development are identified, along with the efforts made by industry and the government to overcome these obstacles, and the environmental effects entailed.
- Research Organization:
- General Accounting Office, Washington, DC (United States)
- OSTI ID:
- 188470
- Report Number(s):
- GAO/RCED-94-84; B-255799; TRN: 9616612
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: PBD: Jun 1994
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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