Electricity demand in the United States is expected to grow significantly in the future. Over the past decade, Americans used 17 percent more electricity, but domestic capacity rose only 2.3 percent. Unless the United States significantly increases its generating capacity, the country will face an energy shortage that is projected...
The paper mentions that the U.S. Department of Energy DOE is launching a major research and development initiative to create a small, fast, inexpensive and environmentally friendly rig for drilling 5000' boreholes to investigate potential oil and gas reservoirs. DOE wishes to get input from petroleum industry operators, service companies...
The purpose of this document is to outline a research and development roadmap and identify public policy measures for promoting and developing environmentally desirable bio-based fuels, power, and products. The research strategies outlined in this roadmap can help in achieving the goals established by the Committee in the Vision for...
The paper describes about Distributed Power Program for Interconnection & System Integration R&D. The Distributed Power Program conducts RD&D on interconnection and system integration technologies and on regulatory policies to remove Technical, Institutional and Regulatory barriers impeding realization of the full potential of distributed energy resources. Its goals are to...
The U.S. House Committee on Science and Technology's Subcommittee on Energy and Environment recently reviewed the U.S. Department of Energy's DOE fiscal year 2009 (FY 09) budget request for research and development (R&D) programs. The $7.7 billion request for DOE civilian energy R&D funding in FY 09 is divided...
Traditional "smart pigs"-the bulky pipeline assessment tools that ride on gas flow and are incapable of navigation-will get help soon from a U.S. Department of Energy DOE project that could revolutionize the pipeline inspection process. IHS reported the wireless, self-propelled Explorer Il proved its worth in September 2007 when...
From Betsy Houston, Federation of Materials Societies House Science Committee off to a Fast Start: In this columnist's 30 yeans of observing Congress, lhis is , the fastest start ever Tor the House Science and Technology Committee. Chair Bart Gordon (D-TN) has convened meetings virtually every week-sometimes...
BLADES AND DRIVE-TRAINS ARE MAJOR AREAS OF ONGOING R&D The booming U.S. wind industry is spurring a new wave of innovation backed by the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratories (NREL; www.nrel.gov). NREL's Wind Partnership for Advanced Component Technologies WindPACT program has the objective of...
APPLETON Voith Paper got about $2 million in research funds from the U.S. Department of Energy to design and build a paper-making press that needs 30% less energy to dry freshly made paper. Voith Paper will contribute a 50% cost share to the research. ASHWAUBENON Visonex LLP...
Five years in the making, U.S. President George W. Bush finally signed the Energy Policy Act of 2005 into law during August. The bill has an estimated cost of $12.3 billion over 10 years. Approximately $6.1 billion were authorized for coal-related projects. An additional $2.9 billion were directed at coal...
JOM surveyed the leaders of the U.S. Department of Energy's DOE national laboratories for perspectives on some of the U.S. science and engineering community's most pressing issues regarding R&D, globalization, national security, and budget constraints. The journal posed the same five questions to each lab director. What follows are responses...
IDAHO IDAHO HALLS ... The U.S. Department of Energy has selected the Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC BEA to establish the Idaho National Laboratory INL as the nation's premier laboratory for nuclear-energy research, development, demonstration, and education within a decade, combining the R&D components of the Idaho National Engineering...
WASHINGTON, Sept. 14 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The International EnergyAgency IEA Hydrogen Implementing Agreement HIA held a pressconference at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. to releaseits 25th anniversary report, In Pursuit of the Future, and introducethe 2004-2009 strategic plan for its second generation of R,D&D. Representatives of HIA,...
R&D UPDATE A recent study of lightweight compounds with a high hydrogen-storage capacity led to the discovery that adding a small amount of titanium Ti to sodium aluminum hydride (NaAlH^sub 4^; also known as sodium alanate), a hydrogen (H^sub 2^) storage compound, catalyzes the release and re-absorption...
R&D UPDATE Researchers at Carnegie Mellon Univ. (CMU; Pittsburgh, PA ; www.cmu.edu) and Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory (Idaho Falls; www.inel.gov) are developing a process that uses targeted nanoparticles to clean up environmental toxins that resist conventional remediation methods. Their 3-yr study, funded by a $1.7...
R&D Tax Credit Expanded, Extended The Senate has passed an expansion of the R&D tax credit that would allow a consortium of up to five U.S. companies to take advantage of the 20% credit, thus enabling them to share capital costs. The bill, sponsored by New Mexico Senators Pete...
Business Editors/Health/Medical Writers ADVISORY...for Thursday (April 15) --BUSINESS WIRE McDonald'sR to Announce 2004 Balanced Lifestyles Platform Who: -- The Honorable Tommy Thompson, Secretary, U.S. ...
Business Editors/Health/Medical Writers REMINDER...for Thursday (April 15) --BUSINESS WIRE McDonald'sR to Announce 2004 Balanced Lifestyles Platform Who: -- The Honorable Tommy Thompson, Secretary, U.S. ...
The House of Representatives on May 7 passed HR766, The Nanotechnology Research and Development Act of 2002, authorizing $2.36 billion over three years for nanotech R&D programs at the National Science Foundation NSF, the Department of Energy DOE, the Department of Commerce, NASA, and the Environmental Protection Agency EPA. The...
MATERIALS PROCESSING & MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY The U.S. National Nanotechnology Initiative, the U.S. Department of Energy, and the Chemical Industry Vision 2020 Technology Partnership laid the groundwork for future nanotechnology initiatives during the Nanomaterials and the Chemical Industry: R&D Roadmap Workshop, held September 30-October 2, 2002. More...
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