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Noon Energy has developed a new class of battery technology that will cost-effectively turn intermittent solar and wind electricity into on-demand power. It uses ultra-low-cost storage media and can match the energy efficiency of lithium-ion technology. It stores energy by splitting CO2 into solid carbon and oxygen in a flow battery configuration, utilizing abundant materials and simple reaction c ...

Noon Energy has developed a new class of battery technology that will cost-effectively turn intermittent solar and wind electricity into on-demand power. It uses ultra-low-cost storage media and can match the energy efficiency of lithium-ion technology. It stores energy by splitting CO2 into solid carbon and oxygen in a flow battery configuration, utilizing abundant materials and simple reaction c ...

The trend for short-reach optical fiber communications, those used for data centers and HPC, has been to use simple and power-efficient approaches to scale bandwidth. Approaches include parallel single mode (ex. more fibers), multi-level modulation coupled with direct detection (ex. four-level pulse amplitude modulation or PAM-4), and wide channel spacing (i.e. coarse WDM or CWDM). Bandwidth and c ...

The trend for short-reach optical fiber communications, those used for data centers and HPC, has been to use simple and power-efficient approaches to scale bandwidth. Approaches include parallel single mode (ex. more fibers), multi-level modulation coupled with direct detection (ex. four-level pulse amplitude modulation or PAM-4), and wide channel spacing (i.e. coarse WDM or CWDM). Bandwidth and c ...

To maximize its research potential The Facility for Rare Isotope Beams FRIB) requires a neutron tracking array NEXT) with both efficiency and energy resolution at least three times better than the current VANDLE, while also providing excellent gamma-ray rejection over a wide neutron energy range. Unfortunately, the only economically viable NEXT design to date, using EJ276 scintillator and H12700 p ...

Atmospheric nucleation events inject large numbers of ultrafine particles into the air, some of which grow sufficiently large to affect the formation and characteristics of clouds. Yet widespread monitoring of these events is limited by the complexity, cost and size of available instrumentation. The miniature condensation particle counter of this project utilizes an innovative approach to measure ...

The concentration and size of atmospheric particles are critical parameters to evaluating the dynamics of aerosol processes, and to understanding aerosol cloud interactions . Especially important are highly time-resolved measurements aloft, for this is our only direct glimpse into the three-dimensional profile of atmospheric aerosols. In the past these vertical profiles were obtained with aircraft ...

Ennetix will develop an experimental transport protocol, called ITP, which will employ multiple learn- and-infer techniques in congestion avoidance, buffer management, and network coding for forward-error correction) at the Transmission Control Protocol TCP) stack. ITP intends to intelligently manage the congestion-window parameters during the presence of increased loss rate and/or delay, thus ach ...

Neutron scattering experiments would benefit from magnets with fields at least 50% more intense than the ~16 Tesla presently available from conventional low-temperature superconductors LTS). A high temperature superconductor HTS) , operating at ~4 K as a high field superconductor, is essential, because commercial LTS has insufficient current capacity at high fields. For neutron diffraction measure ...

The Department of Energy seeks the development of anion exchange polymeric membranes for solar-to-hydrogen generators that operate in alkaline aqueous electrolytes for energy production and storage applications. These membranes must function in highly alkaline pH 14) electrolytes and have: 1) high hydroxide ion conductivity/transport; 2) high resistivity to separate anode and cathode electrically; ...