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    • Geothermal Life Cycle Calculator

    Metadata Updated: January 20, 2025

    This calculator is a handy tool for interested parties to estimate two key life cycle metrics, fossil energy consumption (Etot) and greenhouse gas emission (ghgtot) ratios, for geothermal electric power production. It is based solely on data developed by Argonne National Laboratory for DOE's Geothermal Technologies office. The calculator permits the user to explore the impact of a range of key geothermal power production parameters, including plant capacity, lifetime, capacity factor, geothermal technology, well numbers and depths, field exploration, and others on the two metrics just mentioned. Estimates of variations in the results are also available to the user.

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: Creative Commons Attribution

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    Metadata Created Date January 11, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date January 20, 2025

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    Harvested from OpenEI data.json

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    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date January 11, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date January 20, 2025
    Publisher Argonne National Laboratory
    Maintainer
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    Data First Published 2014-03-11T06:00:00Z
    Data Last Modified 2019-10-17T20:10:54Z
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    Homepage URL https://gdr.openei.org/submissions/362
    License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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    Program Code 019:006
    Projectlead Arlene Anderson
    Projectnumber FY13 AOP 11
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