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The Geo-Heat Center opened on the Oregon Tech campus in 1975, and was originally named the Geo-Heat Utilization Center. The primary focus of the Center was to disseminate information and provide technical assistance to potential and existing users of geothermal resources, to publish technical papers and a quarterly newsletter on the progress and development of direct-use geothermal energy in the U.S. and other countries, and to undertake applied research. For a long time the Klamath Falls campus was the only one in the world to be geothermally heated. It was later joined by the University of Iceland and 2 in the United States: New Mexico State University and Idaho State University. The Geo-Heat Center closed in 2015.
Collection, received from the Oregon Tech Geo-Heat Center, contains materials related to the activities of the Center: internal correspondence and documentation of the staff, extensive reports and feasibility studies of geothermal potential for various sites, performed by the Center staff, books in several languages, periodicals, Geo-Heat Center Quarterly Bulletin, articles written by the Center staff and other researchers, data on the local well logs and materials on the existing geothermal resources on the Oregon Tech campus.
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Series contains internal documentation of the Geo-Heat Center, correspondence with the researchers from out of state and abroad, articles and presentations at conferences written by the Center staff, and tours given by them.
Series contains materials related to the geothermal facilities of the City of Klamath Falls: maps and drawings of the streets and buildings; wells, piping, heat pumps, etc.; and a collection with local well measurements of depth and temperature.
The Series contains materials related to the geothermal facilities on the Klamath Falls, Oregon Tech campus: proposals on the feasibility of creation of the Industrial Park next to the campus, maps, and drawings and test measurements of the power-plant operational and injection wells.
Series contains materials related to the geothermal feasibility work performed by external experts outside of Oregon: correspondence with the Geo-Heat Center staff, feasibility reports on the geothermal potential of facilities in various states, and a collection of Heat Pump cases written for facilities in California and Nevada.
Series contains photographs showing the geothermal projects performed on the Oregon Tech campus: power plant installation and equipment, an aquaculture project and several others. Photographs are in various sizes and in black and white and color.
Series contains blueprints and drawings of geothermal facilites outside of Oregon Tech, Klamath Falls, and Oregon.
Series contains maps of geothermal projects outside of Oregon Tech, Klamath Falls, and Oregon.