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Life Cycle Water Consumption and Water Resource Assessment for Utility-Scale Geothermal Systems: An In-Depth Analysis of Historical and Forthcoming EGS Projects

This report is the third in a series of reports sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy Geothermal Technologies Program in which a range of water-related issues surrounding geothermal power production are evaluated. The first report made an initial attempt at quantifying the li...

Schroeder, J. et al Argonne National Laboratory

Aug 31, 2013
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Geothermal Water Use: Life Cycle Water Consumption, Water Resource Assessment, and Water Policy Framework

This report examines life cycle water consumption for various geothermal technologies to better understand factors that affect water consumption across the life cycle (e.g., power plant cooling, belowground fluid losses) and to assess the potential water challenges that future geo...

Schroeder, J. et al Argonne National Laboratory

Jun 10, 2014
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West Flank Coso FORGE: Indian Wells Valley Aeromagnetic Data

Aeromagnetic data was collected over the Indian Wells Valley, CA in November 1994. It consisted of 9,033 line-kilometers covering ~4,150 square kilometers, flown at a 250 meter drape with principal line spacing of 0.54 kilometers and 10% cross-lines. The principal orientation is N65E.

Katzenstein, A. et al Sandia National Laboratories

Nov 01, 1994
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GeoThermalCloud: Cloud Fusion of Big Data and Multi-Physics Models using Machine Learning for Discovery, Exploration and Development of Hidden Geothermal Resources

Geothermal exploration and production are challenging, expensive and risky. The GeoThermalCloud uses Machine Learning to predict the location of hidden geothermal resources. This submission includes a training dataset for the GeoThermalCloud neural network. Machine Learning for Di...

Ahmmed, B. Stanford University

Apr 04, 2022
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Preliminary Geologic Map of the Bunejug Mountains Quadrangle, Churchill County, Nevada Salt Wells Geothermal Area

The data in this submission includes a geologic map of the Salt Wells Geothermal Area. The map is in pdf format. The map includes locations of quaternary deposits, tertiary volcanic rock, sedimentary deposits, and tertiary intrusions. The map legend and scale can be found on the m...

Hinz, N. et al University of Nevada

Oct 31, 2011
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Nevada Play Fairway Steptoe Valley Geodatabase and Modeling Data

This package contains data and metadata for the 3d thermal model, well lithology logs, gravity grids and depth to basement inversions, play fairway modelling, and ArcGIS geodatabase resources. This project focused on defining geothermal play fairways and development of a detailed...

Faulds, J. Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology

Aug 25, 2018
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Update on Geothermal Direct-Use Installations in the United States

An updated database of geothermal direct-use systems in the U.S. has been compiled and analyzed, building upon the Oregon Institute of Technology (OIT) Geo-Heat Center direct-use database. Types of direct-use applications examined include hot springs resorts and pools, aquaculture...

Beckers, K. et al National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Mar 02, 2017
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Geothermal Flexibility Characteristics

This spreadsheet identifies various flexibility characteristics for flash and binary geothermal power plants which could potentially facilitate provision of grid services beyond bulk power generation. Characteristics are differentiated between resource characteristics such as meta...

Rhodes, G. and Augustine, C. National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Jun 01, 2020
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Washington Play Fairway Analysis Geothermal Heat and Permeability Potential Geodatabases

This file contains file geodatabases of the Mount St. Helens seismic zone (MSHSZ), Wind River valley (WRV) and Mount Baker (MB) geothermal play-fairway sites in the Washington Cascades. The geodatabases include input data (feature classes) and output rasters (generated from modeli...

Norman, D. et al Washington Division of Geology and Earth Resources

Dec 15, 2015
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Geothermal Project Database Supporting Barriers and Viability Analysis for Development by 2020 Timeline

This data provides the underlying project-level analysis and data sources complied in response to the DOE request to determine the amount of geothermal capacity that could be available to meet the President's request to double renewable energy capacity by 2020. The enclosed dat...

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

Oct 21, 2014
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Geothermal Exploration Cost and Time Metric

The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) was tasked with developing a metric in 2012 to measure the impacts of RD&D funding on the cost and time required for geothermal exploration activities. The development of this cost and time metric included collecting cost and time da...

Jenne, S. et al National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Jan 01, 2013
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CIRES Approach Overview to Using Thermal Infrared Imagery to Find Geothermal Systems in Colorado

Subsurface geothermal activity has a thermal expression that can be observed at the surface. Such spatial temperature gradients are within the radiometric resolution that is characteristic of a wide range of satellites that carry thermal sensors. For this effort, CIRES (part of ...

Hussein, K. Flint Geothermal, LLC

Feb 01, 2012
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Technoeconomics of Transported Geothermal Energy

This data set was used to calculate the technical potential and economic feasibility of transported geothermal energy, according to the methodology outlined in the final report included below.

Liu, X. et al Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Aug 10, 2016
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Geologic Map and GIS Data for the Patua Geothermal Area

Patua-ESRI Geodatabase (ArcGeology v1.3): Contains all the geologic map data, including faults, contacts, folds, veins, dikes, unit polygons, and attitudes of strata and faults. List of stratigraphic units. Locations of geothermal wells. Locations of 40Ar/39Ar and tephra samples.

E., J. University of Nevada

Oct 31, 2011
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Nanofiltration Results: Membrane Removal of Calcium, Magnesium, Sodium, Silica, Lithium, Chlorine, and Sulfate from Simulated Geothermal Brines

Results from a nanofiltration study utilizing simulated geothermal brines. The data includes a PDF documenting the process used to remove Calcium, Magnesium, Sodium, Silica, Lithium, Chlorine, and Sulfate from simulated geothermal brines. Three different membranes were evaluated...

Renew, J. Southern Research Institute

Feb 06, 2016
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Hawthorne Nevada Deep Direct-Use Feasibility Study LiDAR

The objective of this project is to use a multi-disciplinary, three-tiered approach to assess the geothermal resource and determine the feasibility of implementing a large-scale, direct-use facility for the Hawthorne Army Depot (HAD) and the various town and county facilities in H...

Lowry, T. Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology

Mar 29, 2018
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Argonne Geothermal Geochemical Database v2.0

A database of geochemical data from potential geothermal sources aggregated from multiple sources as of March 2010. The database contains fields for the location, depth, temperature, pH, total dissolved solids concentration, chemical composition, and date of sampling. A separate...

Harto, C. Argonne National Laboratory

May 22, 2013
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Raft River Geothermal Field Well Head Brine Sample

Raw data and data workup of assay for real-world brine sample. Brine sample was taken at the well head.

Lanyk, T. Tusaar Corp.

Dec 18, 2015
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USU Camas-1 Test Well: Documentation

This submission contains documents that describe the USU Camas-1 test well, drilled in Camas Prairie, Idaho, in Fall 2018 and Fall 2019. The purpose of this well is to validate exploration methodologies of the Snake River Plain (SRP) Play Fairway Analysis (PFA) project.

Shervais, J. Utah State University

Oct 31, 2018
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Conductance Steamflow Relationship

These histograms represent our calibration of conductance of a volcanic geothermal field (with a clay cap) and the observed steam flow rates. Darajat is a vapor geothermal field located in West Java, Indonesia. First production from the field was started in 1994 and additional cap...

Trainor-Guitton, W. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Apr 01, 2015
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Google Earth Locations of USA and Seafloor Hydrothermal Vents with Associated Rare Earth Element Data

Google Earth .kmz files that contain the locations of geothermal wells and thermal springs in the USA, and seafloor hydrothermal vents that have associated rare earth element data. The file does not contain the actual data, the actual data is available through the GDR website in t...

Fowler, A. University of California

Feb 10, 2016
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Chelating Resins for Selective Separation and Recovery of Rare Earth Elements from Low Temperature Geothermal Water

Study on the use of organic ligands to extract lanthanides from low temperature geothermal water.

Callura, J. Carnegie Mellon University

Dec 31, 2016
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Geothermal Geodatabase for Routt Hot Springs, Routt County, Colorado

This geodatabase was built to cover several geothermal targets developed by Flint Geothermal in 2012 during a search for high-temperature systems that could be exploited for electric power development. Several of the thermal springs and wells in the Routt Hot Spring and Steamboat ...

Zehner, R. Flint Geothermal, LLC

Nov 01, 2012
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Geothermal Geodatabase for Wagon Wheel Hot Springs, Mineral County, Colorado