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TABLE L.4
Geysers Geothermal Field Calculations
1,000,000,000
billion pounds steam/year
8
pounds steam/gallon
328,899
gal/day
120,048,019
gal/year
SOURCE: Smith et al. (2000).
TABLE L.5
Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS) Main Stimulation Calculations
11,500
m
3
water injected over 6 days
3,037,979
gallons water injected over 6 days
1,917
avg. m
3
/day
506,330
avg. gal/day
SOURCE: Asanuma et al. (2008).
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