More than 20 countries generate electricity from geothermal resources and about 60 countries make direct use of geothermal energy. A ten-fold increase in geothermal energy use is foreseeable at the current technology level.
Geothermal Energy: An Alternative Resource for the 21st Century provides a readable and coherent account of all facets of geothermal energy development and summarizes the present day knowledge on geothermal resources, their exploration and exploitation. Accounts of geothermal resource models, various exploration techniques, drilling and production technology are discussed within 9 chapters, as well as important concepts and current technological developments.
- ISBN10 1280708018
- ISBN13 9781280708015
- Publish Date 1 January 2006
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 17 June 2015
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Elsevier Science
- Pages 279
- Language English