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Air source heat pumps
An air source heat pump (ASHP) is a system which transfers heat from outside to inside a building, or vice versa.
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Akureyri
Akureyri is a town in northern Iceland.
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Anhydrite
Anhydrite is a mineral—anhydrous calcium sulfate, CaSO4.
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Annualized geo solar
Annualized geo-solar (AGS) enables passive solar heating in even cold, foggy north temperate areas.
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Aquae Sulis
Aquae Sulis was a small town in the Roman province of Britannia.
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Boise, Idaho
Boise is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Idaho, and is the county seat of Ada County.
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Boric acid
Boric acid, also called hydrogen borate, boracic acid, orthoboric acid and acidum boricum, is a weak, monobasic Lewis acid of boron, which is often used as an antiseptic, insecticide, flame retardant, neutron absorber, or precursor to other chemical compounds.
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Capacity factor
The net capacity factor is the unitless ratio of an actual electrical energy output over a given period of time to the maximum possible electrical energy output over that period.
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Carnot's theorem (thermodynamics)
Carnot's theorem, developed in 1824 by Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot, also called Carnot's rule, is a principle that specifies limits on the maximum efficiency any heat engine can obtain.
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Chaudes-Aigues
Chaudes-Aigues (Chaudas Aigas) is a commune in the Cantal department in south-central France.
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China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a unitary one-party sovereign state in East Asia and the world's most populous country, with a population of around /1e9 round 3 billion.
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Cogeneration
Cogeneration or combined heat and power (CHP) is the use of a heat engine or power station to generate electricity and useful heat at the same time.
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Commonwealth Building (Portland, Oregon)
The Commonwealth Building is a 14-story commercial office tower in Portland, Oregon, United States.
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Dharendra Yogi Goswami
Dharendra Yogi Goswami (born May 15, 1948) is an American inventor, entrepreneur, author, and educator.
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District heating
District heating (also known as heat networks or teleheating) is a system for distributing heat generated in a centralized location for residential and commercial heating requirements such as space heating and water heating.
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Downhole heat exchanger
A downhole heat exchanger, (DHE) also called a borehole heat exchanger, (BHE) is a heat exchanger installed inside a borehole.
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Frank Kreith
Frank Kreith (15 December 1922 – 8 January 2018), American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).
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Geothermal desalination
Geothermal desalination is a process under development for the production of fresh water using heat energy.
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Geothermal energy
Geothermal energy is thermal energy generated and stored in the Earth.
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Geothermal gradient
Geothermal gradient is the rate of increasing temperature with respect to increasing depth in the Earth's interior.
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Geothermal heat pump
A geothermal heat pump or ground source heat pump (GSHP) is a central heating and/or cooling system that transfers heat to or from the ground.
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Geothermal power
Geothermal power is power generated by geothermal energy.
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Ground-coupled heat exchanger
A ground-coupled heat exchanger is an underground heat exchanger that can capture heat from and/or dissipate heat to the ground.
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Groundwater
Groundwater is the water present beneath Earth's surface in soil pore spaces and in the fractures of rock formations.
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Gypsum
Gypsum is a soft sulfate mineral composed of calcium sulfate dihydrate, with the chemical formula CaSO4·2H2O.
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Heat exchanger
A heat exchanger is a device used to transfer heat between two or more fluids.
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Heat pump
A heat pump is a device that transfers heat energy from a source of heat to what is called a "heat sink".
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Heinrich Zoelly
Heinrich Zoelly (1862–1937) was a Mexican-Swiss engineer.
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Hot spring
A hot spring is a spring produced by the emergence of geothermally heated groundwater that rises from the Earth's crust.
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Huaqing Pool
Huaqing Pool or the Huaqing Hot Springs are a complex of hot springs located in an area characterized by mild weather and scenic views at the northern foot of Mount Li, one of the three major peaks of the Qin Mountains.
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Hypocaust
A hypocaust (Latin hypocaustum) is a system of central heating in a building that produces and circulates hot air below the floor of a room, and may also warm the walls with a series of pipes through which the hot air passes.
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Iceland
Iceland is a Nordic island country in the North Atlantic, with a population of and an area of, making it the most sparsely populated country in Europe.
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Iceland Deep Drilling Project
The Iceland Deep Drilling Project (IDDP) is a geothermal project established in 2000 by a consortium of the National Energy Authority of Iceland (Orkustofnun)(OS) and four of Iceland's leading energy companies: Hitaveita Sudurnesja (HS), Landsvirkjun, Orkuveita Reykjavíkur and Mannvit Engineering.
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Idaho
Idaho is a state in the northwestern region of the United States.
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Joule
The joule (symbol: J) is a derived unit of energy in the International System of Units.
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Kansas City Power and Light Company
. Kansas City Power and Light Company is an electric utility company serving the Kansas City metropolitan area.
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Klamath Falls, Oregon
Klamath Falls (Klamath: ʔiWLaLLoonʔa) is a city in and the county seat of Klamath County, Oregon, United States.
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Larderello
Larderello is a frazione of the comune of Pomarance, in Tuscany in central Italy.
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Mount Li
Mount Li is a mountain located in the northeast of Xi'an in Shaanxi Province, China.
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Ohio State University
The Ohio State University, commonly referred to as Ohio State or OSU, is a large, primarily residential, public university in Columbus, Ohio.
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Onsen
An onsen is a Japanese hot spring; the term also extends to cover the bathing facilities and traditional inns frequently situated around a spring.
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Oregon
Oregon is a state in the Pacific Northwest region on the West Coast of the United States.
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Plate tectonics
Plate tectonics (from the Late Latin tectonicus, from the τεκτονικός "pertaining to building") is a scientific theory describing the large-scale motion of seven large plates and the movements of a larger number of smaller plates of the Earth's lithosphere, since tectonic processes began on Earth between 3 and 3.5 billion years ago.
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Polybutylene
Polybutylene (polybutene-1, poly(1-butene), PB-1) is a polyolefin or saturated polymer with the chemical formula (C4H8)n.
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Pompeii
Pompeii was an ancient Roman city near modern Naples in the Campania region of Italy, in the territory of the comune of Pompei.
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Qin dynasty
The Qin dynasty was the first dynasty of Imperial China, lasting from 221 to 206 BC.
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Radar
Radar is an object-detection system that uses radio waves to determine the range, angle, or velocity of objects.
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Radiator
Radiators are heat exchangers used to transfer thermal energy from one medium to another for the purpose of cooling and heating.
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Radioactive decay
Radioactive decay (also known as nuclear decay or radioactivity) is the process by which an unstable atomic nucleus loses energy (in terms of mass in its rest frame) by emitting radiation, such as an alpha particle, beta particle with neutrino or only a neutrino in the case of electron capture, gamma ray, or electron in the case of internal conversion.
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Reykjavík
Reykjavík is the capital and largest city of Iceland.
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Solar combisystem
A solar combisystem provides both solar space heating and cooling as well as hot water from a common array of solar thermal collectors, usually backed up by an auxiliary non-solar heat source.
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Solar energy
Solar energy is radiant light and heat from the Sun that is harnessed using a range of ever-evolving technologies such as solar heating, photovoltaics, solar thermal energy, solar architecture, molten salt power plants and artificial photosynthesis.
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Staufen im Breisgau
Staufen im Breisgau (High Alemannic: Staufe im Brisgau) is a German town in the Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald district of Baden-Württemberg.
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Subsidence
Subsidence is the motion of a surface (usually, the earth's surface) as it shifts downward relative to a datum such as sea level.
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Supercritical fluid
A supercritical fluid (SCF) is any substance at a temperature and pressure above its critical point, where distinct liquid and gas phases do not exist.
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Tectonic uplift
Tectonic uplift is the portion of the total geologic uplift of the mean Earth surface that is not attributable to an isostatic response to unloading.
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TerraSAR-X
TerraSAR-X, an imaging radar Earth observation satellite, is a joint venture being carried out under a public-private-partnership between the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and EADS Astrium.
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Thermae
In ancient Rome, thermae (from Greek θερμός thermos, "hot") and balneae (from Greek βαλανεῖον balaneion) were facilities for bathing.
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Thermal efficiency
In thermodynamics, the thermal efficiency (\eta_ \) is a dimensionless performance measure of a device that uses thermal energy, such as an internal combustion engine, a steam turbine or a steam engine, a boiler, furnace, or a refrigerator for example.
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United States Environmental Protection Agency
The Environmental Protection Agency is an independent agency of the United States federal government for environmental protection.
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University of Rochester
The University of Rochester (U of R or UR) frequently referred to as Rochester, is a private research university in Rochester, New York.
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Volumetric heat capacity
Volumetric heat capacity (VHC), also termed volume-specific heat capacity, describes the ability of a given volume of a substance to store internal energy while undergoing a given temperature change, but without undergoing a phase transition.
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Waste heat
Waste heat is heat that is produced by a machine, or other process that uses energy, as a byproduct of doing work.
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Watt
The watt (symbol: W) is a unit of power.
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William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, (26 June 1824 – 17 December 1907) was a Scots-Irish mathematical physicist and engineer who was born in Belfast in 1824.
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1973 oil crisis
The 1973 oil crisis began in October 1973 when the members of the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries proclaimed an oil embargo.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geothermal_heating