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This study is concerned with U.S. geothermal resources, their potential for commercial utilization by electric … utilities between now and the year 2000, and their impact on the utility industry. USGS estimates of the resources in identified … hydrothermal systems were extrapolated to the undiscovered resources marked by hot springs, and further to the blind resources …
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information on product availability. Our model allows for flexible substitution patterns, which are based on utility maximization …
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Changes in work, along with improvements in techniques to statistically model uncertainty, have resulted in a class of groupware tools able to forecast the activities and/or attentional state of their users. This thesis represents an exploration into the design, development, and use of one such...
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problems. Identifying the accessibility and availability of tourism services and concerns requires a scientific approach. In …
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food shops. This paper examines whether the price and availability of fruits and vegetables are socioeconomically patterned …) supermarkets, greengrocers and convenience stores were observed. Little or no differences in price and availability were found on …
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: reports of heroin users about availability and price (derived from the existing literature and the Illicit Drug Reporting …
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Competitive and high-risk environments require complex high technology systems, which need to be supported and maintained over their respective life cycles. These systems often have a significant consequence of failure, and require complex management systems to achieve their operational...
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This thesis provides an analysis of cost of ownership issues and techniques, andprovides the supporting data to enable future system designers to make rationaldecisions on design options. It represents the experience gained whilst collectingcost and cost relationship data in the Rolls-Royce...
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We are assembled today to discuss the opportunities and challenges for expanding the sales of geothermally-generated electric power in a competitive utility market. First, however, I would like to note that growth in geothermal sales might not be a germane topic were it not for the early...
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The Interim Standard Offer Number Four Contracts (ISM), under which most of the geothermal industry is selling power (outside of The Geysers), has an initial ten year period of known fixed energy payments. In the eleventh year, the price goes to the Avoided Cost of the buying utility. The...
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