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A mined facility for disposal of radioactive waste that uses waste packages and the natural geology as barriers to provide waste isolation.
Industry:Energy
A type of geothermal resource occurring in deep basins in which the fluid is under very high pressure.
Industry:Energy
Hot water or steam extracted from geothermal reservoirs in the earth's crust. Water or steam extracted from geothermal reservoirs can be used for geothermal heat pumps, water heating, or electricity generation.
Industry:Energy
A plant in which the prime mover is a steam turbine. The turbine is driven either by steam produced from hot water or by natural steam that derives its energy from heat found in rock.
Industry:Energy
A special type of thermal spring that periodically ejects water with great force.
Industry:Energy
Trademark name for uintaite (or uintahite), a black, brilliantly lustrous natural variety of asphalt found in parts of Utah and western Colorado.
Industry:Energy
An increase in the near surface temperature of the Earth. Global warming has occurred in the distant past as the result of natural influences, but the term is today most often used to refer to the warming some scientists predict will occur as a result of increased anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases.
Industry:Energy
An index used to compare the relative radiative forcing of different gases without directly calculating the changes in atmospheric concentrations. GWPs are calculated as the ratio of the radiative forcing that would result from the emission of one kilogramme of a greenhouse gas to that from the emission of one kilogramme of carbon dioxide over a fixed period of time, such as 100 years.
Industry:Energy
Oil stocks owned by the national government and held for national security. In the United States, these stocks are known as the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
Industry:Energy
In the case of renewable electricity, green pricing represents a market solution to the various problems associated with regulatory valuation of the nonmarket benefits of renewables. Green pricing programmes allow electricity customers to express their willingness to pay for renewable energy development through direct payments on their monthly utility bills.
Industry:Energy
