TY - BOOK ID - 137458002 TI - Future directions for the U. S. geological survey's energy resources program. AU - National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine AU - Division on Earth and Life Studies AU - Board on Earth Sciences and Resources AU - Committee on Earth Resources AU - Committee on Future Directions for the U.S. Geological Surveyâ"s Energy Resources Program PY - 2018 SN - 0309477433 0309477417 PB - Washington, DC : National Academies Press, DB - UniCat KW - Fossil fuels KW - Power resources KW - Research KW - Power Resources KW - Fossil Fuels KW - Technology & Engineering KW - Energy Resources Program (Geological Survey) KW - United States. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:137458002 AB - "Reliable, affordable, and technically recoverable energy is central to the nation's economic and social vitality. The United States is both a major consumer of geologically based energy resources from around the world and - increasingly of late - a developer of its own energy resources. Understanding the national and global availability of those resources as well as the environmental impacts of their development is essential for strategic decision making related to the nation's energy mix. The U.S. Geological Survey Energy Resources Program is charged with providing unbiased and publicly available national- and regional-scale assessments of the location, quantity, and quality of geologically based energy resources and with undertaking research related to their development. At the request of the Energy Resources Program (ERP), this publication considers the nation's geologically based energy resource challenges in the context of current national and international energy outlooks. Future Directions for the U.S. Geological Survey's Energy Resources Program examines how ERP activities and products address those challenges and align with the needs federal and nonfederal consumers of ERP products. This study contains recommendations to develop ERP products over the next 10-15 years that will most effectively inform both USGS energy research priorities and the energy needs and priorities of the U.S. government"--Publisher's description. ER -