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Continuity and scientific expertise in the merit review, award and management process are
important in maintaining quality and responsiveness in this program. Significant technical
management capabilities and commitment at ID and the INEEL ensure that awards are made
and managed consistent with programmatic and scientific objectives with the least cost to the
taxpayer. Success in using these strategies has been demonstrated through the addition of
significant geothermal electrical generating capacity.
There are many high quality and significant papers in this compendium and bringing attention to
some does not mean that others are less worthy of special notice. The paper by Hulen et al.
provides some concise discussions on the relationship between scientific efforts and industry
participation. The Blackwell et al. paper is an excellent example of how proprietary data has
reached the public domain through useful research. These papers also effectively illustrate the
development and use of conceptual models that will have wide use in the geothermal
community. The silica scaling research by Heaney and Brantley is another good example of the
responsiveness of DOE geothermal research to specific needs of the geothermal industry.
Research done in a vacuum is not useful. In each of the papers you will see that the
researchers have made significant efforts to disseminate their results to the geothermal
community through presentations at meetings and the peer reviewed literature. The work done
by Moller and Weare is a good example of research that has resulted in high quality publications
and technology transfer (http://qeotherm.ucsd.edu) in the area of chemical behavior under
geothermal conditions.
Several research projects (see Moller and Weare, Ghassemi, Wannamaker et al., and Rial for
example) involve the development and use of computer codes to speed the applicability of
research results. These codes typically have been designed with user-friendly, graphical user-
interfaces and will be freely available to the geothermal community. In order to fully maximize
the Government's investment in these projects, workshops should be held to demonstrate the
use and utility of these codes. Also noteworthy is the web-site described in the Nash paper
(http://www.egi-geothermal.org). This web-site is a concise compendium of geothermal data
and imagery that should prove to be very helpful to the geothermal community.
The projects summarized in this volume demonstrate the practical and scientific value of DOE-
sponsored geothermal research. In order to fully leverage research results, case studies should
be compiled. This effort would involve teams of industry, academia, and DOE national
laboratory personnel. Multiple research products would be used and tested to support
geothermal development. The process and results of this scientific and technical effort would
be coordinated to ensure focus on geothermal development while establishing the utility of DOE
funded geothermal research and technology. Feedback in this process would be used to more
effectively focus new research. Such a coordinated effort would also encourage multi-
disciplinary communications in a setting where hypotheses are generated and tested in the real
world. A similar exercise was conducted at Dixie Valley with positive results. The results of this
exercise will be discussed at a June 2002 workshop in Reno, Nevada. More coordination
efforts along these lines should be conducted in the future.ii
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Creed, R.J. & Laney, P.T. Geothermal Technologies Program Geoscience and Supporting Technologies 2001 University Research Summaries, report, May 14, 2002; Idaho Falls, Idaho. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc733957/m1/4/: accessed April 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.