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Air quality data from top-of-the-line platforms, such as satellites, are difficult to obtain without a high- level of technical knowledge. For this reason, local air quality patterns and trends are often inaccessible to disadvantaged communities (DACs). Many technologies that will be used for deep decarbonization of industrial and power facilities have the added co-benefit of reducing non-CO2 poll ...

C53-22c-271119Meeting climate-stabilizing energy transition goals requires using hybrid-energy CO2 capture systems like Direct Air Capture (DAC) to remove billions of tonnes of CO2 from the atmosphere. Deploying this capacity will be difficult because it is complex and energy intensive infrastructure, and there must also be buy- in from communities living in locations best suited for it. The chall ...

In the United States, transportation is the leading source of emissions among major industries. This puts pressure on cities to optimize transportation infrastructures to meet decarbonization goals. City planners are required to ingest data from a variety of sources and balance a wide array of priorities ranging from mobility and equality to safety and sustainability. Making decisions for optimal ...

Renewable energy sources are experiencing a surge of growth due to rising power demand but suffer asynchronous production relative to societal needs. To balance the overproduction during low demand and underproduction during high demand, proton exchange membrane (PEM) based electrolyzers (capable of producing zero-carbon, green hydrogen) and fuel cells (for clean electricity generation and zero em ...

Plastics (polymers) are used widely in energy, industry, and defense sectors due to their low cost and weight, processibility, and electrical insulation properties. Unfortunately, this class of materials is also thermally insulating, which restricts their usefulness in applications where heat is generated and has a direct effect on the performance (e.g. electronics and computing, LED lighting, hea ...

Nuclear energy is one of the most favorable and cheapest alternatives to fossil fuels, and it can be scaled up to meet global energy demands. The mass deployment of nuclear energy as a low-emissions source requires the reprocessing of used nuclear fuel to recover fissile materials and mitigate radioactive waste. A major concern with reprocessing used nuclear fuel is the release of gaseous radionuc ...

Ravensafe provides a portable energy storage solution that negates the use of fuel generators for providing instant power. The portable energy storage system can be recharged by grid power, solar, or generator. The power is stored in a hybrid lithium ion

Security Forces is transitioning to a new Weapons Qualifications Course that will significantly increase the number of iterations that Defenders conduct at the firing range. Going forward, all personnel will receive firearms training on a monthly/quarterly basis (as opposed to annually) at outdoor ranges with distances of 25 - 400 meters.  Bullseye Targets Systems LLC has developed the Bullseye T ...

Founded in 2019, Maxwell Labs has combined materials science with state-of-the-art machine learning technology to deploy an entirely new class of intelligent cooling solutions. The company product portfolio includes Radiative Cooling Coatings, Radiative Heatsinks, and Thermal Compounds. Current product applications are focused on effective and sustainable cooling technologies in the computing and ...

Istari, partnering with the Sensing Perception Autonomy and Robot Kinetics (SPARK) Lab at MIT, proposes to study the feasibility of integrating pose estimation and object detection algorithms developed at MIT into the Air Force digital aircraft design certification procedure to target improved model performance.  The SPARK Lab has developed highly accurate methods to certify pose estimations and ...