Geothermal
Energy: An Overlooked Resource in the
Gosnold, William1, Daniel F.
Merriam2, David D. Blackwell3 (1) N/A, N/A, MO (2)
University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS (3) Southern Methodist University, Dallas,
TX
Large-scale adoption of alternatives to
fossil fuel has long been delayed for a number of reasons; primarily the lack
of economic competitiveness, technological stagnation, and complacency. At
present, the economic disincentive and its attendant effects are declining due
to tripling of the world crude oil price since nuclear
, solar, wind, unconventional gas,
hydrogen, ethanol, etc. In this paper, we present information on the amount and
availability of geothermal energy in the central
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