Geothermal Power Plants, 3rd Edition

Chapter 1

Geology of Geothermal Regions

“Birth and death. Like us, geothermal features begin and end, moving through cycles of their own. We draw towards them, lured by change, beauty, and an unusual cast of the familiar – water, rocks, and heat. We search them for answers to mysteries in our own lives, like birth and death.”

Susan F. Hodgson – 1995

1.1 Introduction

1.2 The Earth and its atmosphere

1.3 Active geothermal regions

1.4 Model of a hydrothermal geothermal resource

1.5 Other types of geothermal resources

1.5.1 Hot Dry Rock, HDR

1.5.2 Geopressure

1.5.3 Magma energy

1.5.4 Deep hydrothermal

References

Problems

1.1 Introduction

Geothermal energy – Earth heat – can be found anywhere in the world. But the high-temperature energy that is ...