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Establishing a secure domestic supply of clean energy has emerged as an existential challenge facing the US, given geopolitical threats to global energy supplies and serious risks arising from climate change. Utility-scale wind turbine technology has grown rapidly to supply 2% of US electricity needs, but many regions are not suitable for large wind turbines. Distributed generation of wind energy ...

High performance dynamic networks, which support scientific experiments with high bandwidth requirements, consist of a control plane and a data plane, neither of which, at present, is secure against cyber attack. Careless or malicious tampering with these networks could disrupt the network, invalidate data, and otherwise ruin experiments supported by the networks. Security measures ¿ fire walls ...

Forest biomass has the potential to provide environmentally-sustainable, carbon-neutral raw material for much of the nation¿s energy and chemical synthesis needs. However, the drawback to the use of wood for chemical production and biofuels continues to be the complexity of producing separate streams of cellulose, hemicellulose, and/or lignin from the lignocellulosic feedstock. The major diff ...