Potential of Hot-Dry-Rock Geothermal Energy in the Eastern United States
This is subtitled, ''A report to the United States Congress under Section 2502 of Public Law 102-486 (The Energy Policy Act of 1992)''. It documents a workshop held by the U.S.G.S. (in Philadelphia, January 1993) as required by EPACT 1992. The workshop concluded that under present (1993) economic and technological constraints, mining heat for power electrical power generation is not feasible in the eastern United States. The main issues are the costs of drilling very deep wells and the general applicability of hydrofracturing technology to compressional stress field typical of the eastern U.S. (DJE-2005)
- Research Organization:
- U.S. Geological Survey, U.S. Department of the Interior
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE
- OSTI ID:
- 860633
- Report Number(s):
- USGS-93-377; TRN: US200606%%745
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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