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NTB (Non-technical Barriers) Interviews with Geothermal Stakeholders for Geothermal Development in the Salton Sea.

Non-technical barriers to deploying geothermal electricity projects in the United States can create significant delays and other challenges, leading to higher project risk and costs, lost opportunities to access policy incentives, and ultimately decreased competitiveness against o...

Levine, A. and Smith, L. National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Oct 01, 2021
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EGS Collab Experiment 2: Core Logs

Core logs and photos from the EGS Collab project Experiment 2 for the Top Vertical well (TV4100) and the Top Horizontal well (TV 4100) on the 4100 Level of SURF (the Sanford Underground Research Facility). The core logs are stored in a single PDF file with 5-ft run intervals. In t...

Dobson, P. et al Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Jul 08, 2019
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Devices Suitable for Sectional Isolation Along Both Cased and Open-hole Wellbores Large-scale Test Setup

The main goal of this project is to develop an annular isolation system capable to withstand geothermal downhole conditions and mitigate the problems experienced by conventional packers in FORGE wells. This large-scale set-up report is about the system that has been constructed to...

Teodoriu, C. et al Welltec

Jan 31, 2023
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McGee Mountain Geoprobe Study, Humboldt County, Nevada

Geoprobes were developed by the environmental industry to collect water, gas and soil samples from contaminated sites at shallow depths (10-40 meters), with a minimum of environmental disturbance. A modified Geoprobe was used to collect bottom hole temperatures, and attempt to col...

Tullar, K. Geothermal Technical Partners, Inc.

Jun 19, 2010
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Evaluation of the Performance of Houses With and Without Supplemental Dehumidification in a Hot-Humid Climate

Understanding indoor humidity conditions in low energy homes in hot-humid climates is critical to promoting long term occupant comfort, indoor air quality and building durability. The results of this study were expected to inform the residential building community on whether suppl...

Kerrigan, P. and Norton, P. National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Apr 27, 2016
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Active Source 3D Seismic Tomography of Brady Hot Springs Geothermal Field, Nevada

We deployed a dense seismic array to image the shallow structure in the injection area of the Brady Hot Springs geothermal site in Nevada. The array was composed of 238 5 Hz, three-component nodal instruments and 8,700 m of distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) fiber-optic cable inst...

Parker, L. University of Wisconsin

Aug 09, 2017
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Memos Relating to 2011 Field Checking of CIRES ASTER Thermal Targets

In 2010 and 2011, Flint Geothermal commissioned CIRES from the University of Colorado to attempt to detect "blind" or buried geothermal systems using remote sensing. CIRES utilized thermal infrared bands from ASTER and LANDSAT satellite imagery to detect areas of warm ground in pa...

Zehner, R. and Hussein, K. Flint Geothermal, LLC

Feb 01, 2012
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Measured Performance of a Varied Airflow Small-Diameter Duct System

In this study, researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy's Building America team IBACOS built on research previously done in two new-construction unoccupied test houses-one in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (Poerschke and Stecher 2014) and one in Fresno, California (Stecher and Poe...

Poerschke, A. Ibacos Innovation

Apr 27, 2016
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Engineering Design and Specification for the Open-Hole Packer

This engineering design and specification document contains the applications, specifications, testing, materials, and running methods for the Open-Hole Packer. The Open Hole Packer is designed to seal 8.5 to 9.75 inch open-holes with a 7 inch casing. The design is intended to seal...

Coon, R. PetroQuip Energy Services

Dec 14, 2021
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GeoRePORT Case Studies 2019

The Geothermal Resource Portfolio Optimization and Reporting Technique (GeoRePORT) was developed with funding from the U.S. Department of Energy Geothermal Technologies Office to assist in identifying and pursuing long-term investment strategies through the development of a resour...

Kolker, A. National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Sep 16, 2019
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Modeled Performance of the Hathaway Solar Patriot house Washington D.C

This Dataset contains field research raw data, analysis spreadsheet, photos, and final report from the Hathaway Solar Patriot House Building America Case Study project. This dataset details the monitored and modeled performance of a solar home outside of Washington, D.C. We model...

Norton, P. et al National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Jun 20, 2016
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Final Report Earth Source Heat: A Cascaded Systems Approach to DDU of Geothermal Energy on the Cornell Campus

The purpose of this document is to describe the contents contained within Geothermal Data Repository (GDR) node of the National Geothermal Data System (NGDS) that serves as the final report for the project "Earth Source Heat: A Cascaded Systems Approach to DDU of Geothermal Energy...

Tester, J. et al Cornell University

Oct 27, 2019
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Lancaster County Adult Detention Facility Geothermal System Domestic Hot Water System

Feasibility study completed to identify the economic and operations benefits of using a geothermal based heat pump to supplement domestic hot water production for a large county detention facility.

Davlin, T. District Energy Corporation

Oct 20, 2008
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Buildings Energy Data Book

The Building Energy Data Book (2011) is a compendium of data from a variety of data sets and includes statistics on residential and commercial building energy consumption. Data tables contain statistics related to construction, building technologies, energy consumption, and buildi...

Mayernik, J. and (EERE), O. National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Jun 11, 2015
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Regulatory and Permitting Information Desktop (RAPID) Toolkit

The Regulatory and Permitting Information Desktop (RAPID) Toolkit combines the former Geothermal Regulatory Roadmap, National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) Database, and other resources into a Web-based tool that gives the regulatory and utility-scale geothermal developer commun...

Young, K. and Levine, A. National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Sep 30, 2014
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Analysis of Geothermal Resources in Three Texas Counties

This project updates the geothermal resources beneath our oil and gas fields, as part of the research for the Texas GEO project. This report "Analysis of Geothermal Resources in Three Texas Counties" (October 2020) improves on previous mapping of the Texas resources for the counti...

Richards, M. and Batir, J. Southern Methodist University Huffington Department of Earth Sciences

Oct 30, 2020
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Structural and Tectonic Controls of Geothermal Activity in the Basin and Range Province

We are conducting an inventory of structural settings of geothermal systems (>400 total) in the extensional to transtensional Great Basin region of the western USA. A system of NW-striking dextral faults known as the Walker Lane accommodates ~20% of the North American-Pacific plat...

Faulds, J. et al University of Nevada

Nov 30, 2012
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National Residential Efficiency Measures Database (REMDB)

This project provides a national unified database of residential building retrofit measures and associated retail prices and end-user might experience. These data are accessible to software programs that evaluate most cost-effective retrofit measures to improve the energy efficien...

Moore, N. et al National Renewable Energy Lab NREL

Sep 29, 2023
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Exploration Case Studies on OpenEI

The goal of this project was to create a template (and associated form) on OpenEI to solicit crowd-sourced information sharing about various geothermal resource areas around the world. Over the past two years, twelve case studies have been researched by NREL staff testing the usa...

Young, K. National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Sep 27, 2013
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High-Pressure Combustion and Deflagration-to-Detonation Transition in Ethylene/Nitrous Oxide Mixtures

In this paper, the combustion of nitrous oxide with a simple hydrocarbon, ethylene, at high initial pressures is investigated. A series of experiments were conducted using a stoichiometric C2H4-N2O mixture in a round, smooth-walled tube with initial pressures of 125 to 337 psi. ...

Grubelich, M. Sandia National Laboratories

Nov 01, 2013
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Wind Turbine Gearbox Condition Monitoring Vibration Analysis Benchmarking Datasets

Wind turbine condition monitoring (CM) can potentially help the wind industry reduce turbine downtime and operation and maintenance (O&M) cost. NREL CM research has investigated various condition-monitoring techniques such as acoustic emission (AE specifically stress wave), vibrat...

Sheng, S. National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Mar 28, 2014
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Public Housing: A Tailored Approach to Energy Retrofits Raleigh

More than 1 million U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development-supported public housing units provide rental housing for eligible low-income families across the country. These units range from scattered single-family houses to high-rise apartments. In this project, the Advan...

Dentz, J. et al The Levy Partnership, Inc Systems Building Research Alliance

Apr 27, 2016
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LBNL Fault Detection and Diagnostics Datasets

These datasets can be used to evaluate and benchmark the performance accuracy of Fault Detection and Diagnostics (FDD) algorithms or tools. It contains operational data from simulation, laboratory experiments, and field measurements from real buildings for seven HVAC systems/equip...

Granderson, J. et al Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Aug 01, 2022
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Geocellular model of St. Peter Sandstone for University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign DDU Feasibility Study

The geocellular model of the St. Peter Sandstone was constructed for the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign DDU feasibility study. Starting with the initial area of review (18.0 km by 18.1 km [11.2 miles by 11.3 miles]) the boundaries of the model were trimmed down to 9.7 ...

Damico, J. University of Illinois

Dec 31, 2018
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Geocellular Model of Mt. Simon Sandstone for University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign DDU feasibility study

The geocellular model of the Mt. Simon Sandstone was constructed for the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign DDU feasibility study. Starting with the initial area of review (18.0 km by 18.1 km [11.2 miles by 11.3 miles]) the boundaries of the model were trimmed down to 9.7 ...