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The 4.5MW Centipod ocean wave generating system, a horizontally stable floating platform, optimally yawed (active) to wavefront exposure has 56 80kW flotation pods driving hydraulic rams. Fluid drives the hydroelectric generating system providing cost competitive electric power. Inherent survivability in extreme seas uses methodologies from offshore oil production. The proposed plan will provide c ...

Current Li-ion technology offers the highest energy density of any rechargeable battery system. Unfortunately, Li-ion systems still do not meet the energy density and cost goals for emerging EV markets including PHEVs. A new strategy to meeting these goals includes selecting high capacity battery materials, currently incompatible with conventional assembly of Li-ion cells in the discharged state, ...

The klystrons in use at CEBAF are operated at low efficiency and the prices for servicing of existing tubes and for purchasing spare tubes have been increasing. FAR-TECH, Inc. studied a number of options in regards to improving the efficiency of the klystron systems, as well as replacement technologies such as solid state amplifiers. In Phase I, the solid state amplifier option was identified as ...

Abundant cellulosic biomass is an ideal starting material for biofuels, but unlocking the latent energy potential of cellulose is technically difficult because cellulose is one of nature

While the DOE has spent billions of dollars over the past two decades building, staffing and equipping four national synchrotron radiation facilities to support advanced research in all fields by supplying intense brilliant x-ray beams covering a wide range of energies, x-ray detector capabilities have not kept pace with developments in x-ray sources and beam line facilities. Thus, while x-ray fl ...

Achieving efficiency improvements and providing demand-response programs have been identified as key elements of our national energy initiative. The residential market is the largest, yet most difficult, segment to engage in efforts to meet these objectives. This project will develop an Energy Management System that engages the consumer and enables Smart Grid services, applications, and business p ...

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is seeking development of seismic sensors, under its Geothermal Technologies Program, to support the subsurface monitoring of geothermal reservoirs during reservoir stimulation and operation. It is anticipated that these sensors will respond within the frequency range from sub-Hz to multi-kHz, be compatible with packaging for downhole deployment, including the ...

The DOE is seeking new nondestructive evaluation methods to assess the microstructures of materials used in high-temperature applications. These materials could include metallic alloys, carbon-carbon (C/C) composites, and silicon carbide-silicon carbide composites.To solve this problem, Physical Optics Corporation proposes to develop a new one-sided High-Temperature Material Microstructure Nondest ...

DOE is seeking innovative approaches to hybrid solar technologies that combine electrical and thermal energy generation. Such approaches promise to significantly increase the total operating efficiency of solar panels and reduce system costs and size with the cogeneration of heat and electricity; also, they will offer secondary benefits such as load shifting and cooler running PV cells/modules, he ...

Low cost, massively scalable, automated fiber optic patch-panels are the key network elements of the future, enabling software driven control, monitoring and mapping of the fiber optic physical network layer. Physical layer automation promises to dramatically improve the reliability and agility of high bandwidth communications services. Considering that the cost to operate today