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Comparative assessment of nuclear fuel cycles. Light-water reactor once-through, classical fast breeder reactor, and symbiotic fast breeder reactor cycles

The object of the Alternative Nuclear Fuel Cycle Study is to perform comparative assessments of nuclear power systems. There are two important features of this study. First, this evaluation attempts to encompass the complete, integrated fuel cycle from mining of uranium ore to disposal of waste rather than isolated components. Second, it compares several aspects of each cycle - energy use, economics, technological status, proliferation, public safety, and commercial potential - instead of conce… more

Date: June 1, 1980

Creator: Hardie, R.W.; Barrett, R.J. & Freiwald, J.G.

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Consumptive water use in the production of ethanonl and petroleum gasoline.

The production of energy feedstocks and fuels requires substantial water input. Not only do biofuel feedstocks like corn, switchgrass, and agricultural residues need water for growth and conversion to ethanol, but petroleum feedstocks like crude oil and oil sands also require large volumes of water for drilling, extraction, and conversion into petroleum products. Moreover, in many cases, crude oil production is increasingly water dependent. Competing uses strain available water resources and ra… more

Date: January 30, 2009

Creator: Wu, M.; Mintz, M.; Wang, M.; Arora, S. & Systems, Energy

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Helium: how do we put off that projected $5000/Mcf cost as far into the future as possible - or shouldn't we even try

The dwindling supplies of helium and the problems of imposing conservation measures are discussed. (TFD)

Date: January 1, 1979

Creator: Hammel, E. F.

Item Type: Article

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Pacific Northwest and Alaska Regional Bioenergy Program : Five Year Report, 1985-1990.

This five-year report describes activities of the Pacific Northwest and Alaska Regional Bioenergy Program between 1985 and 1990. Begun in 1979, this Regional Bioenergy Program became the model for the nation's four other regional bioenergy programs in 1983. Within the time span of this report, the Pacific Northwest and Alaska Regional Bioenergy Program has undertaken a number of applied research and technology projects, and supported and guided the work of its five participating state energy pr… more

Date: February 1, 1991

Creator: (U.S.), Pacific Northwest and Alaska Bioenergy Program

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Federal income taxation of the U. S. petroleum industry and the depletion of domestic reserves. Final report

This paper models in a dynamic framework the production activities of the United States petroleum industry in an attempt to measure the effects of the federal income tax on reserve depletion. This model incorporates general corporate taxes, including the capital subsidies, excess depreciation and the investment tax credit, and taxes unique to the industry: drilling subsidies and percentage depletion. Because corporate response to tax incentives depends on market power and behavior, three behavi… more

Date: October 1, 1978

Creator: Flaim, S. J. & Mount, T. D.

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Energy needs, uses, and resources in developing countries

The report identifies the energy needs, uses, and resources in the developing countries of the world and examines the energy options available to them for their continued social and economic growth. If traditional patterns of development are to continue, oil consumption in the non-OPEC LDCs will grow steadily to become comparable with current U.S. consumption between 2000 and 2020. Attempts to exploit indigenous hydrocarbon resources even in those LDCs with untapped reserves will be limited by … more

Date: March 1, 1978

Creator: Palmedo, P.F.; Nathans, R.; Beardsworth, E. & Hale, S. Jr.

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Oil/gas supply modeling considerations in long-range forecasting. [Use of LEAP: Long-Range Energy Analysis Program]

Oil- and gas-supply modeling may not only generate forecasts on a stand-alone basis, but may provide input data and assumptions to large-scale, long-range integrated energy economy models. In such a framework, parameters that may not have seemed especially crucial in the stand-alone formulation may be found to have an unexpectedly great influence on the results. Additionally, it may become necessary to incorporate considerations that are usually omitted from conventional oil- and gas-supply mod… more

Date: December 1, 1980

Creator: Cherniavsky, E A

Item Type: Article

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Urbanism and Energy in Developing Regions

The pace of urbanization must continue, because in most parts of the world the surplus population in the countryside has nowhere else to go. The world is about 40% urban now and apparently headed for the 80 to 90% share of the total population presently exhibited by the developed countries. Thus, the 1.6 billion urban dwellers in 1978 would become about 3 billion in 1995--if major catastrophes can be avoided. Feasibility assessments for Sao Paulo-Rio de Janeiro, Calcutta, Cairo-Alexandria, Mexi… more

Date: March 1, 1978

Creator: Meier, Richard L.; Berman, Sam & Dowell, David

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Air quality analysis of Phase I of the proposed oil backout legislation. [Lead abstract]

This report presents an air quality analysis of Phase I of the President's proposed legislation to reduce the use of oil and natural gas in electric utility power plants by approximately 1 x 10/sup 6/ barrels of oil per day. The report analyzes changes in sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide emissions that would accompany the conversions. Local and regional impacts on ambient sulfur dioxide and sulfate concentrations are examined. Finally, the cost-effectiveness of certain control options and the … more

Date: October 1, 1980

Creator: Streets, D.G.

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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An evaluation of known remaining oil resources in the United States: Project on advanced oil recovery and the states. Volume 1

The Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission (IOGCC) has conducted a series of studies to evaluate the known, remaining oil resource in twenty-three (23) states. The primary objective of the IOGCC`s effort is to examine the potential impact of an aggressive and focused program of research, development, and demonstration (RD&D) and technology transfer on future oil recovery in the United States. As part of a larger effort by the IOGCC, this report focuses on the potential economic, social, and … more

Date: October 1, 1994

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Findings and views concerning the exemption of motor gasoline from the manatory petroleum allocation and price regulations. Supplement to September 1977 report

All of the conclusions presented in the September Report (TID-28102; EAPA 4:2494) remain valid. In summary, it is concluded, as FEA did in the September Report, that motor gasoline is not, and will not be through 1979, in short supply; that competition and market forces are adequate to protect consumers from undue price increases; and that exempting motor gasoline from price and allocation controls will not have an adverse impact on the supply of any oil or refined petroleum product subject to … more

Date: May 1, 1978

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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An evaluation of known remaining oil resources in the United States: Project on advanced oil recovery and the states. Volume 1

The Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission (IOGCC) has conducted a series of studies to evaluate the known, remaining oil resource in twenty-three (23) states. The primary objective of die IOGCC`s effort is to examine the potential impact of an aggressive and focused program of research, development, and demonstration (RD&D) and technology transfer on future oil recovery in the United States. As part of a larger effort by the IOGCC, this report focuses on the potential economic, social, and … more

Date: November 1, 1993

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Directions for advanced use of nuclear power in century XXI

Nuclear power can provide a significant contribution to electricity generation and meet other needs of the world and the US during the next century provided that certain directions are taken to achieve its public acceptance. These directions include formulation of projections of population, energy consumption, and energy resources over a responsible period of time. These projections will allow assessment of cumulative effects on the environment and on fixed resources. Use of fossil energy resou… more

Date: May 1, 1999

Creator: Walter, C E

Item Type: Article

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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State energy severance taxes, 1985-1993

This report analyzes changes in aggregate and State-level energy severance taxes for 1985 through 1993. Data are presented for crude oil, natural gas, and coal. The report highlights trends in severance tax receipts relative to energy prices and production, using severance tax data published by the Bureau of the Census of the US Department of Commerce and production data published by the Energy Information Administration.

Date: September 1, 1995

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Uranium resource utilization improvements in the once-through PWR fuel cycle

In support of the Nonproliferation Alternative Systems Assessment Program (NASAP), Combustion Engineering, Inc. performed a comprehensive analytical study of potential uranium utilization improvement options that can be backfit into existing PWRs operating on the once-through uranium fuel cycle. A large number of potential improvement options were examined as part of a preliminary survey of candidate options. The most attractive of these, from the standpoint of uranium utilization improvement, … more

Date: April 1, 1980

Creator: Matzie, R A

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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An evaluation of known remaining oil resources in the United States. Appendix, Project on Advanced Oil Recovery and the States

This volume contains appendices for the following: Overview of improved oil recovery methods (enhanced oil recovery methods and advanced secondary recovery methods); Benefits of improved oil recovery, selected data for the analyzed states; and List of TORIS fields and reservoirs.

Date: October 1, 1994

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Running Out of and Into Oil: Analyzing Global Oil Depletion and Transition Through 2050

This report presents a risk analysis of world conventional oil resource production, depletion, expansion, and a possible transition to unconventional oil resources such as oil sands, heavy oil and shale oil over the period 2000 to 2050. Risk analysis uses Monte Carlo simulation methods to produce a probability distribution of outcomes rather than a single value. Probability distributions are produced for the year in which conventional oil production peaks for the world as a whole and the year o… more

Date: November 14, 2003

Creator: Greene, D. L.

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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An evaluation of known remaining oil resources in the state of California: Project on advanced oil recovery and the states. Volume 2

The Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission (IOGCC) has conducted a series of studies to evaluate the known, remaining oil resource in twenty-three (23) states. The primary objective of die IOGCC`s effort is to examine the potential impact of an aggressive and focused program of research, development, and demonstration (RD&D) and technology transfer on future oil recovery in the United States. As part of a larger effort by the IOGCC, this report focuses on the potential economic benefits of i… more

Date: November 1, 1993

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Crosshole geotomography in a partially depleted reservoir. Final report

Specific project objectives are to: characterize downhole seismic sources; show the applicability of crosswell tomography as a tool for reservoir characterization in depleted reservoirs; use crosswell methodology to make attenuation estimates; use crosswell methods for lithology prediction and fluid detection; and combine crosswell methods with VSP and high-resolution 3-D surface seismic methods to characterize lithology. Major recent accomplishments include: production of a P-wave velocity tom… more

Date: April 1, 1994

Creator: McDonald, John A.

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Internalizing the externalities of solar technology: Methodologies for incorporating externalities in the assessment of policy options and technology assessments of solar energy initiatives and R and D programs using Brookhaven models

Internalizing the costs for implementing solar energy may never be, the author says. In the meantime, budget allocation decisions must be made. It is the purpose of this paper to identify capabilities currently in existence at BNL that help to provide answers to the value of increasing the contribution of solar energy. This paper presents several alternative approaches. BNL models that are useful for the economic measurement of energy related environmental damage are NEDS/REPS1 NEDS/REPS; ESNS;… more

Date: May 1, 1978

Creator: Marcuse, William

Item Type: Article

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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A sensitivity analysis of the treatment of wind energy in the AEO99 version of NEMS

Each year, the U.S. Department of Energy's Energy Information Administration (EIA) publishes a forecast of the domestic energy economy in the Annual Energy Outlook (AEO). During the forecast period of the AEO (currently through 2020), renewable energy technologies have typically not achieved significant growth. The contribution of renewable technologies as electric generators becomes more important, however, in scenarios analyzing greenhouse gas emissions reductions or significant technological… more

Date: January 1, 2001

Creator: Osborn, Julie G; Wood, Frances; Richey, Cooper; Sanders, Sandy; Short, Walter & Koomey, Jonathan

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Water resources development in Santa Clara Valley, California: insights into the human-hydrologic relationship

Groundwater irrigation is critical to food production and, in turn, to humankind's relationship with its environment. The development of groundwater in Santa Clara Valley, California during the early twentieth century is instructive because (1) responses to unsustainable resource use were largely successful; (2) the proposals for the physical management of the water, although not entirely novel, incorporated new approaches which reveal an evolving relationship between humans and the hydrologic … more

Date: June 1, 2000

Creator: Reynolds, Jesse L. & Narasimhan, T.N.

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Revitalizing a mature oil play: Strategies for finding and producing unrecovered oil in Frio fluvial-deltaic reservoirs of South Texas. Technical progress report, January 1--March 31, 1996

Advanced reservoir characterization techniques are being applied to selected reservoirs in the Frio Fluvial-Deltaic Sandstone (Vicksburg Fault Zone) trend of South Texas in order to maximize the economic producibility of resources in this mature oil play. This project is developing interwell-scale geological facies models and assessing engineering attributes of Frio fluvial-deltaic reservoirs in selected fields in order to characterize reservoir architecture, flow-unit boundaries, and the contr… more

Date: April 24, 1996

Creator: Tyler, N. & Levey, R.A.

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Development of improved methods for locating large areas of bypassed oil in Louisiana. Final report

The primary objective of the project was to develop a predictive method for locating Pockets of bypassed mobile oil and estimating the volume of this resource. A secondary objective of the project was to transfer the learned technology to small independent operators who drill a majority of the domestic wells but lack access to a research staff. Another objective was to develop a format for compiling data on Louisiana reservoirs in a form that can be used by government and industry to evaluate t… more

Date: July 1, 1994

Creator: Bourgoyne, A. T., Jr. & Kimbrell, C.

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department