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 . ...
. Hubbert Peak . The Year of Peak Oil Production Continues to be . a Lively Scholary Debate . But Concensus is Emerging . The Peak will likely occur around 2005 +/- 1 year . Then decline to 10% of that peak within 50 years. (but it could easily be more rapid). The Price of Oil . But it continues to be "cheap" .
... This data file contains two entries: year and departure temperature from the average world wide temperature in 1899. ... Your task is to use the chi-squared method to compare the data against some linear model or a combination of different linear models if you think that is better, E.g. suppose your model is that the average temperature of the earth will rise 0.5 degrees C every hundred years (or 0.05 degrees per decade). ... You can average the data in 10 year intervals if you want. ...
... This transit allows for the angular size of the dark spot (i.e. Venus) to be measured in a way that is more accurate than other ways. ... Calculate the distance to the Sun by assuming that the Earth and Venus have the same physical diameter (i.e. 12,600 km). ... The solar constant, the amount of energy that is received by the earth at the top of our atmosphere is 1.4 x 10 6 ergs cm -2 sec -1 , Calculate the total luminosity of the sun (you should get 4x10 33 ergs/sec). ...
... Thus something which has a 5% rate of growth, doubles every 70/5 = 14 years. ... The rate of increase of CO 2 in our atmosphere is about 0.5% per year over the last 100 years. ... Your task is to take the following set of input parameters and assumptions and make a model prediction about what the effects of global warming will be in 100 and in 200 years (i.e. in the year 2100 and the year 2200). ... The combined biomass on the planet currently can process 15 ppm of CO 2 per year. ...
February 10, 2003 (Monday) Igor Tyukhov, Oregon Solar Radiation Monitoring Laboratory . February 17, 2003 (Monday) Osamu Yasuda, Tokyo Metropolitan University . February 20, 2003 (Thursday) Linear Collider Seminar . ... Fall 2002 . Fall 2001 . ... Fall 2000 . ... 3:00 pm, 472 Willamette Hall . ... The American Linear Collider Physics Group (ALCPG) has initiated a series of monthly seminars intended for a broad audience. ... This is the inaugural seminar. 1:00 pm, 472 Willamette Hall . ...
March 27, 2003 (Thursday) Linear Collider Seminar . ... Winter 2003 . ... This is the second seminar. 1:00 pm, 412 Willamette Hall . ... return to top . ... I will describe how the BaBar experiment provides a copious source of low energy B mesons ideal for these searches and give the latest results. 4:00 pm, 472 Willamette Hall . ... A second physics run occurred in fall 2002 and a final physics run will occur in summer 2003. 4:00 pm, 472 Willamette Hall . ... 1:00 pm, 472 Willamette Hall . ...
October 14, 2002 (Monday) David Jackson, Rutherford Appleton Lab, UK . ... Fall 2000 . ... The resolution obtained is compared with the starting point, based on an optical survey, and is shown to achieve the design performance. 4:00 pm, 472 Willamette Hall . return to top . ... Amplitude analysis of the D + , D s + decays to KK p and D 0 decay to K s KK are presented using the data collected by Fermilab High Energy Photoproduction Experiment E831(FOCUS). 2:30 pm, 472 Willamette Hall . ...