Impact of enhanced geothermal systems on US energy supply in the twenty-first century

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 365, Issue 1853, 2007, Pages 1057-1094

  Tester, Jefferson W ^a   Anderson, Brian J ^a   Batchelor, Anthony S ^a   Blackwell, David D ^a   Dipippo, Ronald ^a   Drake, Elisabeth M ^a   Garnish, John ^a   Livesay, Bill ^a   Moore, Michal C ^a   Nichols, Kenneth ^a   Petty, Susan ^a   Nafi Toksoz, M ^a   Veatch, Ralph W ^a   Baria, Roy ^a   Augustine, Chad ^a   Murphy, Enda ^a   Negraru, Petru ^a   Richards, Maria ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

EGS; Engineered geothermal systems; Enhanced geothermal systems; Geothermal energy; Heat mining; Hot dry rock

Indexed keywords

EID: 34047148338     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2006.1964     Document Type: Article

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