Geothermal Resources

Since the Arab oil embargo of 1974, it has been clear that the days of almost limitless quantities of low-cost energy have passed. In addition, ever worsening pollution due to fossil fuel consumption, for instance oil and chemical spills, strip mining, sulphur emission and accumulation of solid wastes, has, among other things, led to an increase of as much as 10% in the carbon dioxide content of the atmosphere in this century. This has induced a warming trend through the 'greenhouse effect' which prevents infrared radiation from leaving it. Many people think the average planetary temperatures may rise by 4°C or so by 2050. This is probably true since Antarctic ice cores evidence indicates that, over the last 160000 years, ice ages coincided with reduced levels of carbon dioxide and warmer interglacial episodes with increased levels of the gas in the atmosphere. Consequently, such an elevation of temperature over such a relatively short span of time would have catastrophic results in terms of rising sea level and associated flooding of vast tracts of low-lying lands. Reducing the burning of fossil fuels makes sense on both economic and environmental grounds. One of the most attractive alternatives is geothermal resources, especially in developing countries, for instance in El Salvador where geothermal energy provides about a fifth of total installed electrical power already. In fact, by the middle 1980s, at least 121 geothermal power plants were operating worldwide, most being of the dry steam type.

Business & Money

Bowen, Robert

Real Estate

Applied Science Publishers

Passive Solar Heating Design

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Lebens, Ralph M.

Home Improvement & Design

The ideas in this book have been developed over the past three or four years while I was working at the Institute of Geological Sciences and later for Golder Associates. During that time all of the geological modelling and resource estimation studies I participated in had data that were non-ideal in one respect or another (or just plain 'dirty'): the standard ways of handling the data with kriging or with simpler parametric methods gave reason­ able results, but always there were nagging doubts and some lack of confidence because of the corners that had to be cut in generat­ ing a model. The bimodal distribution that was assumed to be 'close enough' to normal; the pattern of rich and poor zones that was not quite a trend yet made the data very non-stationary; and the many plotted variograms that would not fit any standard model variogram: these all contributed to the feeling that there should be something that statistics could say about the cases where hardly any assumptions could be made about the properties ofthe parent population.

Nonparametric Geostatistics

Science & Math

Henley, Stephen

Earth Sciences

The aim of this monograph has been to distil into a single  volume, in an easily read and assimilated format, the essentials of  this often  complex technology such that it is usable by all technical  and  semi-technical people who wish to become their own polyurethane  and  polyurethane elastomer expert.

Polyurethane elastomers

C. Hepburn

Chemistry

Analytical Methods in Rotor Dynamics

Dimaragonas, A. D.

Paipetis, S. A.

An introduction to industrial organic chemistry

Wiseman, Peter

Technology

Dictionary of language and linguistics

Reference

Hartmann, R. R. K.

Dictionaries & Thesauruses

The chemistry of platinum and palladium: with particular reference to complexes of the elements

F.R. Hartley

Solidification and casting

Davies, G. J.

Cities of Vision

Cities of vision

Arts & Photography

Jensen, Rolf

Architecture

See the best price to sell, buy or rent books by the Applied Science Publishers publisher. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Books by Applied Science Publishers