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Renewable energy sources (including solar) can produce copious amounts of power at times, but often very little just a few seconds later. Energy storage is always needed when power is produced for consumption later. Traditional residential scale solutions store energy in batteries. But, batteries can only be charged so fast, and thus a lot of bursty energy goes to waste. • General statement of h ...

The Mobile Fuel Cell Generator (MFCG) addresses urgent needs to increase the reliability of electricity delivery, using equitable and inclusive technology solutions that reduce dependence on fossil fuels and greenhouse gas production. One specific problem addressed is delivery of electric power during Public Service Power Shutoff (PSPS) events, such as when utilities shut off grid power during per ...

The Department of Energy is seeking the development of novel, cost-effective and energy efficient enzymes for the deconstruction of lignocellulose. To support the bioeconomy as an alternative source of fossil fuel and other value-added products, dedicated energy crops are grown as non-food plant biomass to provide a finite source of lignocellulose. Lignocellulosic biomass could replace petroleum a ...

As part of Phase 1 feasibility study, we evaluated the viability to develop a real-time HPC-scale neuromorphic cyber agent software called Cyber-NeuroRT. We evaluated several scalable neuromorphic techniques to detect and predict cybersecurity threats, compared full precision machine learning models with neuromorphic models and developed an end-to-end Proof of Concept (POC). Upon completion of Pha ...

Sustainable fuels and chemicals production is necessary for the future of the global economy. Converting waste CO2 into fuel using sunlight is a promising process to close the carbon cycle as well as to store solar energy. An electrochemical process to convert CO2 into solar chemicals and fuels has been developed to enable this conversion. Key to this process is a new polymer- electrolyte design t ...

The goal of this program is to demonstrate the fabrication of cubic-centimeter-scale permanently sealed and evacuated fused silica enclosures containing linear Paul traps for trapped-ion-related applications, such as quantum computing. The proposed miniature, highly optically-accessible enclosures will be attached to a small pumping system, or be equipped with an internal cryosorption pump capable ...

Light, X-ray and neutron scattering experiments are widely used for materials studies, particularly biochemical and pharmacological research. Scattering reveals size, shape, and cohesion between macromolecules in fluid solution. National facilities are fully equipped with X-ray and neutron scattering beamlines, and many laboratories have their own lab-based X-ray systems. However, no lab-based neu ...

A recent report by the Basic Energy Sciences Advisory Committee entitled “The Scientific Justification for a U.S. Domestic High-Performance Reactor-Based Research Facility” points out that polarized neutrons are increasingly being used to obtain scientific results not available to any other methods in areas as diverse as topological quantum materials, functional materials, soft matter, and bio ...

Scientific research and public service require ground-based measurements of precipitation density, type and rate. But the sought-after accuracy remains elusive and measurements tend to be too sparse to represent high spatial variability or rapidly evolving storms. Existing ground-based weather stations remain bulky and expensive, composed of assemblages of instruments, each dedicated to a specific ...

Superconducting radio frequency (SRF) accelerators at modern scientific facilities require operation in the continuous wave regime at accelerating gradients of up to 20 MV/m. This can be achieved with SRF resonators with quality factors as high as 1e11. Such high-Q cavities require a new generation of instruments for precise measurement of their RF properties, especially in the over-coupled regime ...