Resource assessment of the Imperial Valley. Final report [electronic resource].

Published:: Oak Ridge, Tenn. : Distributed by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Dept. of Energy, 1977.
Physical Description:: Pages: 93 : digital, PDF file
Additional Creators:: United States. Department of Energy. Office of Scientific and Technical Information

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A resource assessment of the Imperial Valley has been made based on the use of the gravity anomalies as indicators of total excess mass. These data indicate a potential of producing electric power of 7 to 80 thousand megawatts for 30 years. Over half of the total potential is located in the Salton Sea Anomaly and approximately half of the potential of the Salton Sea field is water covered. An attempt has been made to assess not only the heat in storage in the fluid but also recoverable from the country rock by reinjection. Based on calculations, the natural recharge rate of heat in the Valley due to sea floor spreading is too small to give the resource an indefinite life-span since the economic rates of withdrawal appear to be at least an order of magnitude greater.

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E 1.99:dlri-10
dlri-10

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Geothermal Energy

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Published through SciTech Connect.
01/01/1977.
"dlri-10"
Lee, T.; Biehler, S.
Dry Lands Research Inst., Riverside, CA (USA)

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