The U.S. Department of Energy Geothermal Legacy Reports Collection

Abstract

The Geothermal Technologies Program (GTP), U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), began a study in 2002 of the accessibility of geothermal technical reports from the view of a user of the Internet. In 2005, the GTP decided to go ahead with converting into electronic form the reports from DOEsponsored research that had been archived at DOE’s Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) since the inception of the DOE Geothermal research effort. About 1,200 reports had been submitted to OSTI in electronic format by the National Laboratory Geothermal teams since 1999. 3,200 additional paper reports received before 1999 were converted in 2005. The project is now looking for more reports to scan. This article explains how you can access the full-text-searchable reports in the Geothermal Legacy Collection at OSTI via the Internet.