What about Energy Storage? ... Battery Farms: . Acres of batteries; charged by transmission lines during periods of low demand . Returned to transmission lines during periods of high demand . ... Fused Silica has 25 times the energy storage per kg than lead-acid batteries . ... Very high energy density storage per kg . ... Not economically viable unless shipped large distances from point of production . Compressed Air . ... Have to cool the air as its compressed energy intensive . ...

RUSSIAN PEREPLET . Culture, Science, and Education Portal . Science Space Culture General Discussion Scientific Discussion Seminars . News: The best of Russian Science and Technology . ... MASTER Team Science Release: Discovery of the Black Hole Ergosphere? ... The International Conference "The International Conference" . ... MASTER is the first russian asteroid factory . ... New Russian "Volga" . ... MASTER - is the first russian robotic telescope for observations Gamma-Ray Bursts . ...

... What drives the selection of the next mission: science drivers or technical capability? ... Giga- missions ( + $1B) should start with the question (TPF) NASA needs both kinds Examples: Copernicus FUSE · (coatings, detectors ) · local astronomy galactic astronomy · next generation extragalactic FUV IUE GHRS STIS COS COBE MAP Generic UV - 0ptical Technology Drivers Optics: · · · · · size with high figure quality size w/o high figure quality ultra-low scatter efficient wide field designs better...

The AstroGuide . ... AstroGuide Listing . ... See many more Astronomy Listings by: Category or Alphabet . The Intelligent Handset and Drive Box is a complete system to drive a telescope and is designed to provide the ultimate in tracking, control, position readout and computer connection. ... We also do Synchronous motor drives, Sidereal clocks, Display units and Testing tools. ... Web Site . ... Unless otherwise specified, web site content Copyright 1994-2016 John Huggins All Rights Reserved . ...

... ATNF Home . ... About ATNF overview . ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Australia Telescope User Committee . ... Astrophysics graduate student programs . ... Facilities . ATNF facilities . ... Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder . Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory . ... Parkes radio telescope . Australia Telescope Compact Array . ... Visiting Parkes radio telescope . Visiting Australia Telescope Compact Array . ... Parkes radio telescope webcam . ...

... News . ... Pre-university education . ... Samara University scientists have developed a technology of new-designed photoelectric converters for solar batteries of spacecraft. ... The new solar batteries will be as much effective as their contemporary nanoheterostructured counterparts surface-supported by germanium, and the cost will be five times cheaper. ... Scientists of Samara University (joint SSAU and SSU) developed a technology basis of new silicon-based photoelectric converters (FEC). ...

Next: Other People's Software . ... Quality system management of computer workstations for astronomy can be achieved with relatively small manpower requirements, if the right cost-effective administrative design decisions are made. ... This is all done with essentially one system manager. ... The system is designed so that one doesn't depend on four or more hosts, (such as a software server, cpu server, data file server, font server, etc.) to get work done. ...

... About ISSP . RAS members working in ISSP . ... Multipurpose technology for crystal growth of zinc and cadmium chalcogenides . ... Laboratory of Physical-Chemical Basis of Crystallization (LPCBC), Institute of Solid State Physics (ISSP), Russian Academy of Sciences developed the multipurpose technology for growing binary ( ZnS, ZnSe, ZnTe, CdS, CdSe, CdTe ) and ternary (like Cd 1-x Zn x Te ) crystals of the zinc and cadmium chalcogenides. ... тАв€а substrates for epitaxial growth. ...

IACETH Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science Road traffic emissions in ff Switzerland: Results from the Results Gubrist tunnel Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science (IACETH), Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ZЭrich (ETHZ) UniversitДtstrasse 16 CH-8092 ZЭrich, Switzerland email: Johannes.Staehelin@env.ethz.ch Johannes Staehelin 1. ... Road traffic emission models and Road emission tunnel measurements 3. ... Measurements of the Gubrist tunnel Measurements of 5. ...

... Technology for fabrication of superconducting integrated circuits based on high quality submicron Nb and NbN tunnel junctions with high current density. ... Technology for fabrication of superconducting integrated circuits based on . high quality submicron Nb and NbN tunnel junctions with high current density. ... The objective is to optimize the fabrication of high quality Nb-AlO x -Nb micron-sized tunnel junctions and integrated circuits. ...

Commemorating the 100th anniversary . ... academician Sergei Pavlovich Korolev . ... KOROLEV . ... of rocket and space technology, . ... RSC Energia after S.P. Korolev) . ... 3, the city of Moscow. ... Monuments to Sergei Pavlovich Korolev were set up in the following cities: Zhitomir, Moscow, Baikonur, Korolev, on the premises of RSC Energia. Memorial museums were opened in Zhitomir, Moscow and at Baikonur Cosmodrome, while in RSC Energia’s museum was created S.P. Korolev’s memorial flat-study. ...