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Toyon Research Corporation proposes research and development of advanced algorithms and efficient software for performing high-resolution georegistered 3D reconstruction with associated error models. The technology will be capable of processing sequences of 2D images to automatically generate and georegister 3D models, with no user intervention required. Rapid processing will be achieved by levera ...

The DOEs Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) is seeking to support development of advanced thermoelectric (TE) technologies for waste heat recovery in buildings, industry, and vehicle applications to generate electricity efficiently and cost-competitively because these typically low temperature waste heat flows do not provide enough temperature difference to support conventiona ...

Currently, commercial and residential buildings account for two-fifths of the nations primary energy usage and over one-third the nations carbon emissions. The DOE wishes to reduce the current carbon footprint of housing. Legislation is currently being developed to inspire energy savings and carbon reduction in both the residential and commercial building markets. Technological advances for effici ...

Production of renewably sourced industrial chemicals using microbial production processes requires extensive strain engineering to improve strain titers (g/L), productivities (g/L/hr), and yields (g-product/g-feedstock). Microbial strains are typically optimized by screening for incremental improvements in production using high-throughput screening or selection assays; however, this remains exceed ...

At the present time, relatively few components for onboard hydrogen storage are commercially available and manufactured. Todays 700 bar (10,000 psi) compressed hydrogen storage systems have demonstrated the capability to provide sufficient capacity to enable fuel cell vehicles to achieve a real-world driving range of over 300 miles. While the technology is being used in limited quantities and test ...

The nations future energy supply, loss of its manufacturing base to foreign countries, and global climate change are three of our countrys most urgent problems. Renewable energy sources that can be cost effectively implemented on a large scale, domestically produced and have minimal impact on the environment are necessary for the countrys health, security and prosperity. Three-terminal, chalcogeni ...

U.S. Department of Energy is seeking a solution that both replaces the old building material or structure and adds photovoltaic generation. Integrating photovoltaics into building structures opens the door to numerous new energy conversion design possibilities, from curved form factors for aesthetics, PV surfaces that can flex with underlying structures or photovoltaics that fit odd spaces. In ord ...

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 ...

Gearbox failure on a wind turbine is a major event that can have drastic costs associated with it, both through lost power production during down-time and through repair and labor costs, in particular when the wind turbine is located in a remote or offshore location. As the sizes of wind-turbines continue to increase and their locations become ever more difficult to access (e.g. trend toward 4-5MW ...

Soraa proposes to develop low-cost, large area semipolar ammonothermal true bulk GaN substrates. Semipolar bulk GaN substrates are expected to be transformative for high power blue, green, and/or yellow LEDs, enabling high efficiency, high power density LEDs at costs below $3/kilolumen. The large cost reduction will enable widespread implementation of high-efficiency semipolar LEDs, enabling energ ...