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Environmental impact report (draft)

Description: The three projects as proposed by Pacific Gas and Electric Company and the environmental analysis of the projects are discussed. Sections on the natural and social environments of the proposed projects and their surrounding areas consist of descriptions of the setting, discussions of the adverse and beneficial consequences of the project, and potential mitigation measures to reduce the effects of adverse impacts. The Environmental Impact Report includes discussions of unavoidable adverse effect… more
Date: May 1, 1980
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Chapter 2: Sustainable and Unsustainable Developments in the U.S. Energy System

Description: Over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the United States developed a wealthy society on the basis of cheap and abundant fossil fuel energy. As fossil fuels have become ecologically and economically expensive in the twenty-first century, America has shown mixed progress in transitioning to a more sustainable energy system. From 2000 to 2006, energy and carbon intensity of GDP continued favorable long-term trends of decline. Energy end-use efficiency also continued to improve;… more
Date: May 1, 2008
Creator: Levine, Mark; Levine, Mark D. & Aden, Nathaniel T.
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Department of Water Resources' notice of intention to file an application for certification of DWR Bottle Rock. Final report

Description: Preliminary findings and conclusions are presented on the following: conformity to the forecast of statewide and service area electric power demands; conformity of the proposed site and related facilities with applicable local, regional, state, and federal standards, ordinances, and laws, including any long-range land use plans or guidelines adopted by the state or by any local or regional planning agency; the safety and reliability of the facility; and the relative merit of any alternative sit… more
Date: May 1979
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Pacific Gas and Electric Company preliminary staff review, Geysers Unit 16

Description: The existing documentation on the Geysers Unit 16 and Geysers to Lakeville transmission line projects is reviewed and data deficiencies and areas requiring clarification for filing a Notice of Intention on these projects are identified. (MHR)
Date: May 2, 1978
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Wind Power Today: Wind Energy Program Highlights 2001

Description: Wind Power Today is an annual publication that provides an overview of the U.S. Department of Energy's Wind Energy Program accomplishments for the previous year. The purpose of Wind Power Today is to show how DOE's Wind Energy Program supports wind turbine research and deployment in hopes of furthering the advancement of wind technologies that produce clean, low-cost, reliable energy. Content objectives include: educate readers about the advantages and potential for widespread deployment of win… more
Date: May 1, 2002
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Ion exchange phenomena

Description: Ion exchange phenomena involve the population of readily exchangeable ions, the subset of adsorbed solutes that balance the intrinsic surface charge and can be readily replaced by major background electrolyte ions (Sposito, 2008). These phenomena have occupied a central place in soil chemistry research since Way (1850) first showed that potassium uptake by soils resulted in the release of an equal quantity of moles of charge of calcium and magnesium. Ion exchange phenomena are now routinely mod… more
Date: May 1, 2011
Creator: Bourg, I.C. & Sposito, G.
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Benefits of Parallel I/O in Ab Initio Nuclear Physics Calculations, ICCS 2009 Proceedings

Description: Many modern scientific applications rely on highly parallel calculations, which scale to 10's of thousands processors. However, most applications do not concentrate on parallelizing input/output operations. In particular, sequential I/O has been identified as a bottleneck for the highly scalable MFDn (Many Fermion Dynamics for nuclear structure) code performing ab initio nuclear structure calculations. In this paper, we develop interfaces and parallel I/O procedures to use a well-known parallel… more
Date: May 20, 2009
Creator: Laghave, Nikhil; Sosonkina, Masha; Maris, Pieter & Vary, James P.
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Electronic Structure Calculations and Adaptation Scheme in Multi-core Computing Environments

Description: Multi-core processing environments have become the norm in the generic computing environment and are being considered for adding an extra dimension to the execution of any application. The T2 Niagara processor is a very unique environment where it consists of eight cores having a capability of running eight threads simultaneously in each of the cores. Applications like General Atomic and Molecular Electronic Structure (GAMESS), used for ab-initio molecular quantum chemistry calculations, can be… more
Date: May 20, 2009
Creator: Seshagiri, Lakshminarasimhan; Sosonkina, Masha & Zhang, Zhao
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CHAPTER 5-RADIOACTIVE WASTE MANAGEMENT

Description: The ore pitchblende was discovered in the 1750's near Joachimstal in what is now the Czech Republic. Used as a colorant in glazes, uranium was identified in 1789 as the active ingredient by chemist Martin Klaproth. In 1896, French physicist Henri Becquerel studied uranium minerals as part of his investigations into the phenomenon of fluorescence. He discovered a strange energy emanating from the material which he dubbed 'rayons uranique.' Unable to explain the origins of this energy, he set the… more
Date: May 5, 2010
Creator: Marra, J.
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Hadron Production in Heavy Ion Collisions

Description: Heavy ion collisions are an ideal tool to explore the QCD phase diagram. The goal is to study the equation of state (EOS) and to search for possible in-medium modifications of hadrons. By varying the collision energy a variety of regimes with their specific physics interest can be studied. At energies of a few GeV per nucleon, the regime where experiments were performed first at the Berkeley Bevalac and later at the Schwer-Ionen-Synchrotron (SIS) at GSI in Darmstadt, we study the equation of st… more
Date: May 19, 2009
Creator: Ritter, Hans Georg & Xu, Nu
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System Performance Characterization

Description: Characterizing an adaptive optics (AO) system refers to understanding its performance and limitations. The goal of an AO system is to correct wavefront aberrations. The uncorrected aberrations, called the residual errors and referred to in what follows simply as the errors, degrade the image quality in the science camera. Understanding the source of these errors is a great aid in designing an AO system and optimizing its performance. This chapter explains how to estimate the wavefront error ter… more
Date: May 26, 2004
Creator: van Dam, M. A.
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Development and Application of Compatible Discretizations of Maxwell's Equations

Description: We present the development and application of compatible finite element discretizations of electromagnetics problems derived from the time dependent, full wave Maxwell equations. We review the H(curl)-conforming finite element method, using the concepts and notations of differential forms as a theoretical framework. We chose this approach because it can handle complex geometries, it is free of spurious modes, it is numerically stable without the need for filtering or artificial diffusion, it co… more
Date: May 27, 2005
Creator: White, D.; Koning, J. & Rieben, R.
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Modelling the Madden Julian Oscillation

Description: The MJO has long been an aspect of the global climate that has provided a tough test for the climate modelling community. Since the 1980s there have been numerous studies of the simulation of the MJO in atmospheric general circulation models (GCMs), ranging from Hayashi and Golder (1986, 1988) and Lau and Lau (1986), through to more recent studies such as Wang and Schlesinger (1999) and Wu et al. (2002). Of course, attempts to reproduce the MJO in climate models have proceeded in parallel with … more
Date: May 21, 2004
Creator: Slingo, J. M.; Inness, P. M. & Sperber, K. R.
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DEVELOPMENT AND SELECTION OF IONIC LIQUID ELECTROLYTES FOR HYDROXIDE CONDUCTING POLYBENZIMIDAZOLE MEMBRANES IN ALKALINE FUEL CELLS

Description: Alkaline fuel cell (AFC) operation is currently limited to specialty applications such as low temperatures and pure H{sub 2}/O{sub 2} due to the corrosive nature of the electrolyte and formation of carbonates. AFCs are the cheapest and potentially most efficient (approaching 70%) fuel cells. The fact that non-Pt catalysts can be used, makes them an ideal low cost alternative for power production. The anode and cathode are separated by and solid electrolyte or alkaline porous media saturated wit… more
Date: May 1, 2012
Creator: Fox, E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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High Pressure Materials Research: Novel Extended Phases of Molecular Triatomics

Description: Application of high pressure significantly alters the interatomic distance and thus the nature of intermolecular interaction, chemical bonding, molecular configuration, crystal structure, and stability of solid [1]. With modern advances in high-pressure technologies [2], it is feasible to achieve a large (often up to a several-fold) compression of lattice, at which condition material can be easily forced into a new physical and chemical configuration [3]. The high-pressure thus offers enhanced … more
Date: May 26, 2004
Creator: Yoo, C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Chapter 11. Community analysis-based methods

Description: Microbial communities are each a composite of populations whose presence and relative abundance in water or other environmental samples are a direct manifestation of environmental conditions, including the introduction of microbe-rich fecal material and factors promoting persistence of the microbes therein. As shown by culture-independent methods, different animal-host fecal microbial communities appear distinctive, suggesting that their community profiles can be used to differentiate fecal sam… more
Date: May 1, 2010
Creator: Cao, Y.; Wu, C. H.; Andersen, G. L. & Holden, P. A.
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Automated detection and analysis of particle beams in laser-plasma accelerator simulations

Description: Numerical simulations of laser-plasma wakefield (particle) accelerators model the acceleration of electrons trapped in plasma oscillations (wakes) left behind when an intense laser pulse propagates through the plasma. The goal of these simulations is to better understand the process involved in plasma wake generation and how electrons are trapped and accelerated by the wake. Understanding of such accelerators, and their development, offer high accelerating gradients, potentially reducing size a… more
Date: May 21, 2010
Creator: Ushizima, Daniela Mayumi; Geddes, Cameron G.; Cormier-Michel, Estelle; Bethel, E. Wes; Jacobsen, Janet; Prabhat et al.
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Hyperspectral Geobotanical Remote Sensing for CO2 Storage Monitoring

Description: This project's goal is to develop remote sensing methods for early detection and spatial mapping, over whole regions simultaneously, of any surface areas under which there are significant CO2 leaks from deep underground storage formations. If large amounts of CO2 gas percolated up from a storage formation below to within plant root depth of the surface, the CO2 soil concentrations near the surface would become elevated and would affect individual plants and their local plant ecologies. Excessiv… more
Date: May 14, 2004
Creator: Pickles, W & Cover, W
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Clean Cities Award Winning Coalition: Chicago

Description: The Chicago area coalition marks its five-year anniversary in 1999 as a member of the Clean Cities Program. Their progress in the last five years has been remarkable as they advance the alternative fuel and vehicle markets, increase coalition membership, help support new alternative fuel vehicle (AFV) legislation, and educate fleet managers. The coalition boasts more than 90 stakeholders, including industry, government, environmental and academic organizations, and membership continues to grow.… more
Date: May 19, 1999
Creator: Kaiser, ICF
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Clean Cities Award Winning Coalition: Salt Lake City

Description: Since its designation as a national Clean City in 1994, Salt Lake Clean Cities has put more than 2,600 alternative fuel vehicles (AFVs) on community streets. The 82 business, nonprofit, and government agencies that comprise the coalition are all dedicated to cleaning the air by reducing vehicle exhaust. Salt Lake Clean Cities has the third largest compressed natural gas and propane-refueling infrastructure in the country, with 98 locations available. They sponsor an annual ''Spring Soiree'' to … more
Date: May 20, 1999
Creator: Kaiser, ICF
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Clean Cities Award Winning Coalition: Greater Long Island

Description: This coalition was the culmination a two-year joint effort by Long Island Lighting Company and the Long Island Regional Planning Board. The group's first alternative fuel project was a single fill compressed natural gas station and a converted Chevrolet Caprice. Since then, the coalition has made steady progress in the alternative fuel and alternative fuel vehicle (AFV) market. They have over 400 AFVs and 21 fueling stations in their operating area. Thanks to strong partnerships with local publ… more
Date: May 20, 1999
Creator: Kaiser, ICF
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Clean Cities Award Winning Coalition: San Diego

Description: Stakeholders in the San Diego coalition have already helped remove about 125 tons of nitrogen oxides and 867 tons of carbon dioxide every year since their inception in 1996. They are proud of their numerous accomplishments, including the San Diego Gas and Electric's installation of a solar chargeport, which can charge up to six electric vehicles simultaneously and at no cost. San Diego Regional Clean Cities Coalition will also soon be home to the first alternative fuel vehicle (AFV) showroom in… more
Date: May 19, 1999
Creator: Kaiser, ICF
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Clean Cities Award Winning Coalition: Coachella Valley

Description: Southern California's Coachella Valley became a Clean Cities region in 1996. Since then, they've made great strides. SunLine Transit, the regional public transit provider, was the first transit provider to replace its entire fleet with compressed natural gas buses. They've also built the foundation for a nationally recognized model in the clean air movement, by partnering with Southern California Gas Company to install a refueling station and developing a curriculum for AFV maintenance with the… more
Date: May 20, 1999
Creator: Kaiser, ICF
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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