[1] We apply seismic ambient noise tomography to image and investigate the shallow shear velocity structure beneath the Coso geothermal field and surrounding areas. Data from a PASSCAL experiment operated within the Coso geothermal field between 1998 and 2000 and surrounding broadband stations from the Southern California Seismic Network are acquired and processed. Daily cross correlations of a...

Understanding and predicting how global warming affects the structure and functioning of natural ecosystems is a key challenge of the 21st century. Isolated laboratory and field experiments testing global change hypotheses have been criticized for being too small-scale and overly simplistic, whereas surveys are inferential and often confound temperature with other drivers. Research that utilize...

The similarities and differences in reservoir engineering in the geothermal and petroleum industries are not familiar to many. This unfamiliarity frequently leads to aberrant perception of the risks and rewards of geothermal development in the minds of developers and financiers who are accustomed to the petroleum industry but are new to geothermal. This paper is a comparative survey of the stat...

Density distribution within the Salton Sea geothermal system, of fluids ranging from 20°C to 325X, has been computed using chemical and thermal data from geothermal production well tests and curve-fit models of Na-Ca-K chloride solution properties. Density corrections can easily be made to iO.01 g/cm3 for solute effects of each of the dominant chloride salts as well as pressure above vapor satu...

OBJECTIVES Geothermal waters may contain soluble, radioactive radon gas. Spa facilities that use geothermal water may be a source of an increased radiation dose to people who stay there. It has been necessary to assess the exposure to radon among people: workers and visitors of spa centers that use geothermal waters. MATERIAL AND METHODS In 2013, workers of the Nofer Institute of Occupational...

Geothermal power projects in Turkey are outliers for this technology because of their very high CO2 emissions rates (800-1600 g/kWhr) which are comparable to or significantly exceed those from coal-fired power generation (940-980 g/kW-hr). A “typical” 50 MW geothermal project in Turkey producing 1000 g/kW-hr CO2 emits 1,200 tonnes per day of CO2 to the atmosphere. CO2 is discharged to the atmos...

The International Energy Agency Implementing Agreement for a Cooperative Programme on Geothermal Energy Research and Technology, or Geothermal Implementing Agreement (GIA), provides an important framework for wide-ranging international cooperation in geothermal R&D. The activities of the GIA, which began in March 1997, are directed primarily to the coordination of on-going national programmes a...

The use of geothermal energy and its associated technologies has been increasing worldwide. However, there has been little paradigmatic research conducted in this area. This paper proposes a systematic methodology to research the development trends for the sustainable development of geothermal energy. A novel data analysis system was created to research the geothermal energy utilization trends,...