Preface

Blankenship, Douglas; Dobson, Patrick; Garg, Sabodh; Ghassemi, Ahmad; Kohl, Thomas

doi:10.1016/j.geothermics.2016.04.001

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High-temperature geothermal resources are often the manifestations of cooling magmatic intrusions, and are vertically zoned. Beneath the low-permeability cap and the hydrothermal circulation volume, there exists a zone of limited permeability where water does not circulate freely. At present, almost all of the commercial production of geothermal energy is derived from the relatively shallow (usually < 2–3 km) hydrothermal zone (i.e. zone where water can flow freely). Reliance on hydrothermal resources is dictated by currently available technology and by cost considerations.

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Blankenship, Douglas ^[1]; Dobson, Patrick ^[2]; Garg, Sabodh ^[3]; Ghassemi, Ahmad ^[4]; Kohl, Thomas ^[5]

Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
Leidos Inc., San Diego, CA (United States)
Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK (United States)
Karlsruhe Inst. of Technology (KIT) (Germany)

Publication Date:: Tue May 10 00:00:00 EDT 2016

Research Org.:: Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Renewable Power Office. Geothermal Technologies Office

OSTI Identifier:: 1471024

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-05CH11231

Resource Type:: Accepted Manuscript

Journal Name:: Geothermics

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Volume: 63; Journal ID: ISSN 0375-6505

Publisher:: Elsevier

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 15 GEOTHERMAL ENERGY

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                    Blankenship, Douglas, Dobson, Patrick, Garg, Sabodh, Ghassemi, Ahmad, and Kohl, Thomas. Preface.  United States: N. p., 2016. 
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  abstractNote = {High-temperature geothermal resources are often the manifestations of cooling magmatic intrusions, and are vertically zoned. Beneath the low-permeability cap and the hydrothermal circulation volume, there exists a zone of limited permeability where water does not circulate freely. At present, almost all of the commercial production of geothermal energy is derived from the relatively shallow (usually < 2–3 km) hydrothermal zone (i.e. zone where water can flow freely). Reliance on hydrothermal resources is dictated by currently available technology and by cost considerations.},

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