The Geothermal World: Past, Present and Future

Section I. Fundamentals and Background
1. Introduction
1.1. The geothermal history: antiquities and middle ages
1.2 The geothermal history: the modern age
1.3. The birth of geothermal industry: Larderello
1.4. Characteristic and classification of geothermal systems
1.5 Geothermal Power Plant for electricity
1.6 Direct utilization of geothermal heat

2. World distribution of geothermal field
2.1 America
2.2 Africa
2.3 Asia
2.4 Europe
2.5 Oceania

Section II. Geothermal Energy Generation
3. The geothermal world: history and present status
3.1 America
3.2 Africa
3.3 Asia
3.4 Europe
3.5 Oceania

Section III. Resources, Reserves and Forecasting
4. Definition
4.1 Geothermal Energy Resources and Reserves
4.2 Stored Heat Method for Geothermal Potential evaluation
4.3 Short term forecasting
4.4 Long term forecasting

5. Technological issues
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Direct uses
5.3 Electricity production: power plant technologies
5.4 Capacity Factor
5.5 Conversion Efficiency

6. Contribution to CO2 emission mitigation
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Direct Uses
6.3 Electricity