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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 ...

Dynamic Line Ratings (DLRs) can dramatically increase transmission line current capacity, allowing increased renewable energy penetration, decreased line congestion, and prevention of line construction. However, DLR implementation highly depends on unmeasured local line wind, solar irradiation, and line conditions. Today these conditions are only modeled or measured at isolated locations along a s ...

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 ...

Current methods of manufacturing sodium fast reactor (SFR) fuels are constrained to small window of manufacturability. Powder forming processes could provide unique material advantages over traditional casting and extrusion techniques; however, fuel materials in powder form are highly reactive with oxygen and represent a pyrophoric hazard. U and Pu alloys and ceramics are easily dispersible in pow ...

Globally, the majority of nuclear reactors in operation are light water reactor (LWR) designs and are expected to remain a steadfast low-energy carbon sources for the foreseeable. LWR technology would greatly benefit from fuel materials that can withstand increased burnup, however. By creating a fuel with higher burnup capability, fuels can remain in the reactor longer, leading to less refueling o ...

ISAM missions to date require multi-year development timelines and high NRE costs, particularly in the selection, procurement, integration, and testing of mission-specific rendezvous, proximity operations and docking (RPOD) computing hardware and sensing

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has plainly shown the vulnerabilities inherent in the global commercial cellular network, and how those vulnerabilities can be exploited for intelligence or kinetic purposes. Both sides of the conflict have used cell phone loc

DAF/AQ for Space Acquisitions, Frank Calvelli, openly declared in Jan 2023 that USSF will pivot away from monolithic vulnerable and expensive large satellites to massive constellations of smaller, lower-cost, and commercial-grade satellites otherwise know

As learned from the COVID pandemic, treating lung inflammation requires extensive, intensive care resources and has a very high mortality. Yet, even before COVID, it was recognized that artificial ventilators are often set beyond natural lung capacity, directly causing lung injuries, while manual bag-type ventilators have no breath size control, resulting in inadvertent over-inflation. Unfortunate ...