Overview
The book preserves the data of the Hot Dry Rock project of the last 25 years
The material is presented in a format easily grasped by any engineer, scientist, or educated layman
Proven technology's first move towards commercial viability
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Hot Dry Rock Geothermal Energy: History and Potential of the Newest and Largest Renewable Energy Resource
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First Demonstration of the Hot Dry Rock Geothermal Energy Concept: Development of the Phase I Reservoir at Fenton Hill
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Engineering the HDR System: Development and Testing of the Phase II Reservoir at Fenton Hill
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Future Outlook for Hot Dry Rock
About this book
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Donald W. Brown was instrumental in the establishment, in 1971, of the very successful
Hot Dry Rock (HDR) Geothermal Energy Program at the Los Alamos National Laboratory
in New Mexico. He directed the early geological and geophysical reconnaissance work
in the Jemez Mountains, directed the drilling and testing program in the first deep exploratory
well, and in late 1973 selected Fenton Hill (36 km west of Los Alamos) as the Laboratory's
HDR Test Site. Don was the HDR Project Manager through the difficult period from 1983 to
1985, when the deeper (4000-m) reservoir at Fenton Hill was first created by hydraulic
stimulation and then tested as a closed-loop circulating system. He subsequently served
as the lead reservoir engineer for the HDR Project from 1992 through 1995, a time that covers
the successful flow testing of the deeper HDR reservoir at Fenton Hill.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Mining the Earth's Heat: Hot Dry Rock Geothermal Energy
Authors: Donald W. Brown, David V. Duchane, Grant Heiken, Vivi Thomas Hriscu
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-68910-2
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-67316-3Published: 21 April 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-43945-2Published: 09 May 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-68910-2Published: 23 April 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 658
Topics: Geology