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Datacenters house server farms that perform many different jobs ranging from search engines to supercomputing. In aggregate these computer systems already consume enormous power, and their energy requirements are increasing both in absolute terms and in proportion to the total capacity of the United States electrical grid. With higher power consumption has come greater difficulty in keeping these ...

For many years, electrically driven heat pumps have proven to be an effective method of extracting heat from ambient air. As air temperature falls, however, heat pump performance falls off, essentially limiting their year round usefulness to warmer climates. In colder climates heat pump-equipped heating systems typically have a secondary means to provide heat, usually natural gas or electricity. ...

The United States and several other countries are investing in new neutron scattering facilities as well as upgrading existing ones due to their promise for fundamental and applied research that can catalyze advances in energy, telecommunications, manufacturing, plastics, transportation, biotechnology, and health. The performance of one new type of instrument, the wide-angle polarized neutron spec ...

"SSSC is pleased to propose the development and delivery of a Hostile Fire Indication Sensor (HFIS) based on the Phase I design concept. The resulting system will limit the number of circuit card assemblies to two: one for the short wave infrared (SWIR)

60165 The Gulf Stream off the southeastern coast of Florida is a natural source of renewable energy that is ready for development using today¿s technology. Unlike other renewable sources, water flows 24 hours a day and can be counted on as a base source of electric power. This project will utilize the Underwater Electric Kite, which has been tested in the Niagara River and is ready for o ...

60668 This project will develop a new ion source for producing rare isotope (RI) beams, used in nuclear physics research, by replacing primary accelerators with the Plasma Focus (PF) machine. The PF Rare Isotopes breeder should produce very intense beams (1010RI/s), be larger by a factor of thousands, save time for experiments, and permit study of problems not otherwise possible. In Phase ...

60108 The United States is the largest producer of refined petroleum products in the world, with 25 percent of global production and 163 operating refineries. U.S. refineries are also the largest energy consumers in manufacturing and spend $4-$6 billion annually in pollution abatement costs. Ultimately, such cleaner-by-design process technologies that use ¿engineered catalysts¿ could c ...

60170 Today¿s geothermal pressure/temperature measuring tools are short endurance, high value instruments used sparingly because their loss is a major expense. This project will build and test a rugged, affordable downhole sensor capable of returning an uninterrupted data stream at pressures and temperatures of 10,000 psi and 250¿C, respectively, thus permitting continuous deep-well log ...

60174 Turbulence is a key factor in the performance of fusion experimental devices, but is poorly understood. The visualization of turbulent processes is an important tool in understanding the phenomenon. In this project, a high repetition rate MegaHertz tunable Alexandrite laser will be used to excite an ion emission line in a plasma. The resulting laser-induced fluorescence (LIF) will ...

60189 There is an important need to remotely detect and measure atmospheric concentrations of chemical agents of military and ecological concern. Because the absorption of light by molecules is the basis for such measurements, there is a need to improve the sensitivity of differential absorption lidar (DIAL) instruments, which are used to make these atmospheric absorption measurements. ...