Assessment of a geothermal application at Tucson, Arizona

This study assessed the potential of using a geothermal energy source thought to underlie a large computer company's new facility near Tucson, Arizona. This energy source would be used with existing technology to meet the air conditioning and heating requirements of the proposed one million-square-foot expansion that would double the size of the facility. Cost data generated in this study could also be used to make economic determinations of retrofitting the existing, electrically driven centrifugal chillers with hot geothermal water-fired absorption chillers.