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Introducing SciTech Connect

by Mark Martin

02 April, 2013

in Products and Content

OSTI Blog

http://www.osti.gov/ostiblog/introducing-scitech-connect

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With the release of SciTech Connect, OSTI is expanding its deployment of
semantic search, an innovative technology to improve the quality and
relevance of search results across the majority of its DOE content.
Semantic search is a way to enhance search accuracy contextually. Rather
than relying on search algorithms that identify a specific query term,
semantic search uses more complex contextual relationships among people,
places and things. It is an especially effective search approach when a
person truly is researching a topic (rather than trying to navigate to a
particular destination).

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OSTI Director Walt Warnick has said this about SciTech Connect: Now, with
SciTech Connect, we are expanding deployment of innovative semantic search
technology to make DOE R&D results easier to retrieve and thereby better
serve our dual core mission getting DOE results out to the scientific
community and beyond, and getting the communitys results into DOE.

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SciTech Connect contains all the full-text documents and citations
previously found in Information Bridge and Energy Citations Database.
Thus, SciTech Connect contains over sixty-five years of energy-related
citations created and/or collected by OSTI. There are over 2.5 million
citations, including citations to 1.4 million journal articles, 364,000 of
which have digital object identifiers (DOIs) linking to full-text articles
on publishers websites. SciTech Connect also has over 313,000 full-text
DOE sponsored STI reports; most of these are post-1991, but close to
85,000 of the reports were published prior to 1990.

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We are gradually phasing out Information Bridge and Energy Citations
Database (more information). These products accounted for approximately
half of the 298 million transactions OSTI handled in 2012. OSTI will work
to ensure a smooth transition for patrons as it consolidates these two
web-based services into SciTech Connect.

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SciTech Connect Search

http://www.osti.gov/scitech/

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SciTech Connect consolidates the contents of OSTI's Information Bridge and
Energy Citations Database, and will gradually replace these products

OSTI Launches SciTech Connect, Consolidates Information Bridge and Energy
Citations Database

http://www.osti.gov/home/osti_launch_scitech

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The Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Scientific and Technical
Information (OSTI) has launched SciTech Connect, a new portal to free,
publicly available DOE research and development (R&D) results. SciTech
Connect incorporates the contents of two of the most popular core DOE
collections and employs an innovative semantic search tool enabling
scientists, researchers and the scientifically- attentive public to
retrieve more relevant information. OSTI plans to gradually phase out its
current DOE Information Bridge and Energy Citations products and replace
them with the improved search interface of SciTech Connect.

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OSTI developed the new resource to help increase access to science,
technology and engineering research information from DOE and its
predecessor agencies. SciTech Connect represents one of the largest
deployments of semantic search by a federal agency to date.

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OSTI historically has been a leader in pioneering the use of new
technologies to make more DOE and federal science accessible to more
people more conveniently than ever before, said OSTI Director Walter
Warnick. Now, with SciTech Connect, we are expanding deployment of
innovative semantic search technology to make DOE R&D results easier to
retrieve and thereby better serve our dual core mission getting DOE
results out to the scientific community and beyond, and getting the
communitys results into DOE.

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Consolidated in SciTech Connect, DOE Information Bridge and Energy
Citations accounted for approximately half of the 298 million transactions
OSTI handled in 2012. OSTI will work to ensure a smooth transition for
patrons as it consolidates these two web-based services into SciTech
Connect.

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Product Scope

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SciTech Connect contains all the full-text documents and citations
previously found in Information Bridge and Energy Citations Database.
Thus, SciTech Connect contains over sixty-five years of energy-related
citations created and/or collected by OSTI. There are over 2.5 million
citations, including citations to 1.4 million journal articles, 364,000 of
which have digital object identifiers (DOIs) linking to full-text articles
on publishers websites. SciTech Connect also has over 313,000 full-text
DOE sponsored STI reports; most of these are post-1991, but close to
85,000 of the reports were published prior to 1990.

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SciTech Connect includes technical reports, bibliographic citations,
journal articles, conference papers, books, multimedia, and data
information sponsored by DOE through a grant, contract, cooperative
agreement, or similar type of funding mechanism from the 1940s to today.
This collection continues to grow as new scientific and technical
information resulting from DOE research becomes available.

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The records for the early years represent a comprehensive worldwide
collection of nuclear science literature. In addition to reports from the
Atomic Energy Commission and other U.S. Government agencies, this
collection includes numerous non-governmental publications, as well as
foreign and foreign language material. In the mid-1970s, the scope of the
database expanded to cover all forms of energy-related scientific and
technical information.

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Semantic Search

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With the release of SciTech Connect, OSTI is expanding its deployment of
semantic search, an innovative technology to radically improve the quality
and relevance of search results across the majority of its DOE content.
Semantic search is a way to enhance search accuracy contextually. Rather
than relying on search algorithms that identify a specific query term,
semantic search uses more complex contextual relationships among people,
places and things. It is an especially effective search approach when a
person truly is researching a topic (rather than trying to navigate to a
particular destination).

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SciTech Connect employs a semantic search technique known as
keyword-to-concept mapping. It accepts keyword-based queries and returns
concept-mapped queries as in a taxonomy; a search term is mapped to other
associated terms, including narrower and related concepts.

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In this way, semantic search enables the new SciTech Connect search engine
to recognize and make use of the logical relations among concepts in
different scientific documents, regardless of whether those documents use
standard descriptors to express those concepts. As a consequence, even the
casual user easily recognizes the superiority of semantic search results
over traditional word/phrase search results in a side-by-side comparison.

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SciTech Connect also includes a number of other features, including basic
and advanced search; faceting; in-document search; word clouds; and
personalization which allows users to save searches, define alerts based
on saved searches and create and manage document libraries.

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Transition Details

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While SciTech Connect will eventually replace DOE Information Bridge and
Energy Citations Database, the transition will be gradual and seamless.
The transition period should be completed in July 2013. Because SciTech
Connect provides improved access to all the information previously
available via DOE Information Bridge and Energy Citations Database, OSTI
recommends that users bookmark this new product and start using it as
their primary access point to OSTI's collection of DOE research and
development results.

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More details regarding the transition from DOE Information Bridge and
Energy Citations Database will be made available as this transition moves
forward. Rest assured that changes during the transition will be
communicated, and that existing search and retrieval services,
personalization functionality such as alerts, and saved links will
continue to work seamlessly.

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About OSTI

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OSTI, within the DOE Office of Science, collects, preserves, and
disseminates DOE-sponsored R&D results that are the outcomes of R&D
projects or other funded activities at DOE labs and facilities nationwide
and grantees at universities and other institutions.

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DOEs Office of Science is the single largest supporter of basic research
in the physical sciences in the United States and is working to address
some of the most pressing challenges of our time.

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Sample Search Results

Search Results for:

"climate change" AND (gasoline OR petroleum OR oil OR "fossil fuels")

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Everything

368,761


Electronic Full Text

84,844


Citations

283,886

Multimedia

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1.
Energy Sector Vulnerability to Climate Change: Adaptation Options to
Increase Resilience (Presentation)

by Newmark, R. L.; Bilello, D.; Macknick, J.; Hallet, K. C.; Anderson, R.;
Tidwell, V.; Zamuda, C. (Feb. 2013)

The U.S. Department of Energy is conducting an assessment of
vulnerabilities of the U.S. energy sector to climate change and extreme
weather. Emphasizing peer reviewed research, it seeks to quantify
vulnerabilities and identify specific knowledge or technology gaps. It
draws upon a July 2012 workshop, ?Climate Change and Extreme Weather
Vulnerability Assessment of the US Energy Sector?, hosted by the Atlantic
Council and sponsored by DOE to solicit industry input.

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Basin scale assessment of gas hydrate dissociation in response to climate
change

by Reagan, M.; Moridis, G.; Elliott, S.; Maltrud, M.; Cameron-Smith, P.
(Jul. 2011)

Paleooceanographic evidence has been used to postulate that methane from
oceanic hydrates may have had a significant role in regulating climate.
However, the behavior of contemporary oceanic methane hydrate deposits
subjected to rapid temperature changes, like those now occurring in the
arctic and those predicted under future climate change scenarios, has only
recently been investigated. Field investigations have discovered
substantial methane gas plumes exiting the seafloor along the Arctic Ocean
margin, and the plumes appear at depths corresponding to the upper limit
of a receding gas hydrate stability zone. It has been suggested that these
plumes may be the first more

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3.
ESTIMATING RISK TO CALIFORNIA ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURE FROM PROJECTED
CLIMATE CHANGE

by Sathaye, Jayant; Dale, Larry; Larsen, Peter; Fitts, Gary; Koy, Kevin;
Lewis, Sarah; Lucena, Andre (Jun. 2011)

This report outlines the results of a study of the impact of climate
change on the energy infrastructure of California and the San Francisco
Bay region, including impacts on power plant generation; transmission line
and substation capacity during heat spells; wildfires near transmission
lines; sea level encroachment upon power plants, substations, and natural
gas facilities; and peak electrical demand. Some end-of-century impacts
were projected:Expected warming will decrease gas-fired generator
efficiency. The maximum statewide coincident loss is projected at 10.3
gigawatts (with current power plant infrastructure and population), an
increase of 6.2 percent over current temperature-induced losses. By the
end of more

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4.
Soybean Oil Derivatives for Fuel and Chemical Feedstocks

by McFarlane, Joanna [ORNL] (Jan. 2013)

Plant based sources of hydrocarbons are being considered as alternatives
to petrochemicals because of the need to conserve petroleum resources for
reasons of national security and climate change. Changes in fuel
formulations to include ethanol from corn sugar and methyl esters from
soybean oil are examples of this policy in the United States and
elsewhere. Replacements for commodity chemicals are also being considered,
as this value stream represents much of the profit for the oil industry
and one that would be affected by shortages in oil or other fossil fuels.
While the discovery of large amounts of natural gas associated more

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5.
Biomass to Gasoline and DIesel Using Integrated Hydropyrolysis and
Hydroconversion

by Marker, Terry; Roberts, Michael; Linck, Martin; Felix, Larry;
Ortiz-Toral, Pedro; Wangerow, Jim; Tan, Eric; Gephart, John; Shonnard,
David (Jan. 2013)

Cellulosic and woody biomass can be directly converted to hydrocarbon
gasoline and diesel blending components through the use of integrated
hydropyrolysis plus hydroconversion (IH2). The IH2 gasoline and diesel
blending components are fully compatible with petroleum based gasoline and
diesel, contain less than 1% oxygen and have less than 1 total acid number
(TAN). The IH2 gasoline is high quality and very close to a drop in fuel.
The DOE funding enabled rapid development of the IH2 technology from
initial proof-of-principle experiments through continuous testing in a 50
kg/day pilot plant. As part of this project, engineering work on IH2 more

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6.
Summary for Policy Makers: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Special Report Renewable Energy Sources (SRREN)

by Arvizu, Dan; Bruckner, Thomas; Christensen, John; Devernay,
Jean-Michel; Faaij , Andre; Fischedick, Manfred; Goldstein, Barry; Hansen,
Gerrit; Huckerby , John; Jager-Waldau, Arnulf; Kadner, Susanne; Kammen,
Daniel; Krey, Volker; Kumar, Arun; Lewis , Anthony; Lucon, Oswaldo;
Matschoss, Patrick; Maurice, Lourdes; Mitchell , Catherine; Moomaw,
William; Moreira, Jose; Nadai, Alain; Nilsson, Lars J.; Nyboer, John;
Rahman, Atiq; Sathaye, Jayant; Sawin, Janet; Schaeffer, Roberto; Schei,
Tormod; Schlomer, Steffen; Sims, Ralph; von Stechow, Christoph;
Verbruggen, Aviel; Urama, Kevin; Wiser, Ryan; Yamba, Francis; Zwickel,
Timm (May 2011)

The Working Group III Special Report on Renewable Energy Sources and
Climate Change Mitigation (SRREN) presents an assessment of the literature
on the scientific, technological, environmental, economic and social
aspects of the contribution of six renewable energy (RE) sources to the
mitigation of climate change. It is intended to provide policy relevant
information to governments, intergovernmental processes and other
interested parties. This Summary for Policymakers provides an overview of
the SRREN, summarizing the essential findings. The SRREN consists of 11
chapters. Chapter 1 sets the context for RE and climate change; Chapters 2
through 7 provide information on six RE more

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iRESM INITIATIVE UNDERSTANDING DECISION SUPPORT NEEDS FOR CLIMATE CHANGE
MITIGATION AND ADAPTATION --US Midwest Region

by Rice, Jennie S.; Runci, Paul J.; Moss, Richard H.; Anderson, Kate L.
(Oct. 2010)

The impacts of climate change are already affecting human and
environmental systems worldwide, yet many uncertainties persist in the
prediction of future climate changes and impacts due to limitations in
scientific understanding of relevant causal factors. In particular, there
is mounting urgency to efforts to improve models of human and
environmental systems at the regional scale, and to integrate climate,
ecosystem and energy-economic models to support policy, investment, and
risk management decisions related to climate change mitigation (i.e.,
reducing greenhouse gas emissions) and adaptation (i.e., responding to
climate change impacts). The Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)
is developing a modeling more

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Characterizing Uncertainty for Regional Climate Change Mitigation and
Adaptation Decisions

by Unwin, Stephen D.; Moss, Richard H.; Rice, Jennie S.; Scott, Michael J.
(Sep. 2011)

This white paper describes the results of new research to develop an
uncertainty characterization process to help address the challenges of
regional climate change mitigation and adaptation decisions.

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Geologic carbon sequestration as a global strategy to mitigate CO2
emissions: Sustainability and environmental risk

by Oldenburg, C.M. (Apr. 2011)

Fossil fuels are abundant, inexpensive to produce, and are easily
converted to usable energy by combustion as demonstrated by mankind's
dependence on fossil fuels for over 80% of its primary energy supply (13).
This reliance on fossil fuels comes with the cost of carbon dioxide
(CO{sub 2}) emissions that exceed the rate at which CO{sub 2} can be
absorbed by terrestrial and oceanic systems worldwide resulting in
increases in atmospheric CO{sub 2} concentration as recorded by direct
measurements over more than five decades (14). Carbon dioxide is the main
greenhouse gas linked to global warming and associated climate change, the
more

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A deeper look at climate change and national security.

by Baker, Arnold Barry; Backus, George A.; Romig, Alton Dale, Jr. (Mar.
2010)

Climate change is a long-term process that will trigger a range of
multi-dimensional demographic, economic, geopolitical, and national
security issues with many unknowns and significant uncertainties. At first
glance, climate-change-related national security dimensions seem far
removed from today's major national security threats. Yet climate change
has already set in motion forces that will require U.S. attention and
preparedness. The extent and uncertainty associated with these situations
necessitate a move away from conventional security practices, toward a
small but flexible portfolio of assets to maintain U.S. interests.
Thoughtful action is required now if we are to acquire the capabilities,
tools, systems, more





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Scientific Grand Challenges: Challenges in Climate Change Science and the
Role of Computing at the Extreme Scale

by Khaleel, Mohammad A.; Johnson, Gary M.; Washington, Warren M. (Jul.
2009)

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Biological and Environmental
Research (BER) in partnership with the Office of Advanced Scientific
Computing Research (ASCR) held a workshop on the challenges in climate
change science and the role of computing at the extreme scale, November
6-7, 2008, in Bethesda, Maryland. At the workshop, participants identified
the scientific challenges facing the field of climate science and outlined
the research directions of highest priority that should be pursued to meet
these challenges. Representatives from the national and international
climate change research community as well as representatives from the
high-performance computing community attended the more

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12.
Physical Impacts of Climate Change on the Western US Electricity System:
A Scoping Study

by Coughlin, Katie; Goldman, Charles (Dec. 2008)

This paper presents an exploratory study of the possible physical impacts
of climate change on the electric power system, and how these impacts
could be incorporated into resource planning in the Western United States.
While many aspects of climate change and energy have been discussed in the
literature, there has not yet been a systematic review of the relationship
between specific physical effects and the quantitative analyses that are
commonly used in planning studies. The core of the problem is to
understand how the electric system is vulnerable to physical weather risk,
and how to make use of information from more

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13.
The Challenges and Potential of Nuclear Energy for Addressing Climate
Change

by Kim, Son H.; Edmonds, James A. (Oct. 2007)

The response to climate change and the stabilization of atmospheric
greenhouse gas concentrations has major implications for the global energy
system. Stabilization of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations
requires a peak and an indefinite decline of global CO2 emissions. Nuclear
energy, along with other technologies, has the potential to contribute to
the growing demand for energy without emitting CO2. Nuclear energy is of
particular interest because of its global prevalence and its current
significant contribution, nearly 20%, to the worlds electricity supply. We
have investigated the value of nuclear energy in addressing climate
change, and have explored the potential challenges more

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14.
America's Climate Choices: Adapting to the Impacts of Climate Change

by Wilbanks, Thomas J [ORNL]; Jacobs, Dr. Katharine [University of
Arizona]; Baughman, Bruce [IEM, Inc., Alabama]; Benjamin, Georges
[American Public Health Association]; Buizer, Dr. James L. [Arizona State
University]; Chapin, F. Stuart [University of Alaska]; Cherry, Dr. W.
Peter [Science Applications International Corporation, Ann Arbor, MI];
Davis, Braxton [South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental
Control, Charleston]; Emori, Dr. Seita [National Institute for
Environmental Studies, Japan]; Ebi, Kristie L. [IPCC Technical Support
Unit WGII, Stanford, CA]; Harris, Jeremy [Sustainable Cities Institute,
Hawaii]; Kates, Dr. Robert W. [Independent Scholar, Bangor, Maine];
Kunreuther, Howard C. [University of Pennsylvania]; Mearns, Linda O.
[National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)]; Mote, Philip [Oregon
State University, Corvallis]; Rosenberg, Andrew A. [Conservation
International, Arlington, VA]; SchwartzJr., Henry G. [Jacobs Civil
(retired)]; Smith, Joel B. [Stratus Consulting, Inc., Boulder]; Yohe, Gary
W. [Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut] (May 2010)

Convened by the National Research Council in response to a request from
Congress, America's Climate Choices is a suite of five coordinated
activities designed to study the serious and sweeping issues associated
with global climate change, including the science and technology
challenges involved, and provide advice on the most effective steps and
the most promising strategies that can be taken to respond. The Panel on
Adapting to the Impacts of Climate Change was charged to describe,
analyze, and assess actions and strategies to reduce vulnerability,
increase adaptive capacity, improve resilience, and promote successful
adaptation to climate change in different regions, more

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Global situational awareness and early warning of high-consequence
climate change.

by Backus, George A.; Carr, Martin J.; Boslough, Mark Bruce Elrick (Aug.
2009)

Global monitoring systems that have high spatial and temporal resolution,
with long observational baselines, are needed to provide situational
awareness of the Earth's climate system. Continuous monitoring is required
for early warning of high-consequence climate change and to help
anticipate and minimize the threat. Global climate has changed abruptly in
the past and will almost certainly do so again, even in the absence of
anthropogenic interference. It is possible that the Earth's climate could
change dramatically and suddenly within a few years. An unexpected loss of
climate stability would be equivalent to the failure of an engineered
system on a more

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16.
Estimates of the long-term U.S. economic impacts of global climate
change-induced drought.

by Ehlen, Mark Andrew; Loose, Verne W.; Warren, Drake E.; Vargas, Vanessa
N. (Jan. 2010)

While climate-change models have done a reasonable job of forecasting
changes in global climate conditions over the past decades, recent data
indicate that actual climate change may be much more severe. To better
understand some of the potential economic impacts of these severe climate
changes, Sandia economists estimated the impacts to the U.S. economy of
climate change-induced impacts to U.S. precipitation over the 2010 to 2050
time period. The economists developed an impact methodology that converts
changes in precipitation and water availability to changes in economic
activity, and conducted simulations of economic impacts using a
large-scale macroeconomic model of the more

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17.
Our impending energy, climate-change, and economic-development crisis :
Options for Change Part 2

by Gupta, Rajan [Los Alamos National Laboratory] (Dec. 2012)

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18.
Climate change: what causes it and how we know

by Fyke, Jeremy G. [Los Alamos National Laboratory] (Oct. 2012)

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19.
Progress Report 2008: A Scalable and Extensible Earth System Model for
Climate Change Science

by Drake, John B [ORNL]; Worley, Patrick H [ORNL]; Hoffman, Forrest M
[ORNL]; Jones, Phil [Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)] (Jan. 2009)

This project employs multi-disciplinary teams to accelerate development of
the Community Climate System Model (CCSM), based at the National Center
for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). A consortium of eight Department of
Energy (DOE) National Laboratories collaborate with NCAR and the NASA
Global Modeling and Assimilation Office (GMAO). The laboratories are
Argonne (ANL), Brookhaven (BNL) Los Alamos (LANL), Lawrence Berkeley
(LBNL), Lawrence Livermore (LLNL), Oak Ridge (ORNL), Pacific Northwest
(PNNL) and Sandia (SNL). The work plan focuses on scalablity for petascale
computation and extensibility to a more comprehensive earth system model.
Our stated goal is to support the DOE mission in climate more

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20.
Nuclear Energy R&D Imperative 3: Enable a Transition Away from Fossil
Fuel in the Transportation and Industrial Sectors

by David Petti; J. Stephen Herring (Mar. 2010)

As described in the Department of Energy Office of Nuclear Energys Nuclear
Energy R&D Roadmap, nuclear energy can play a significant role in
supplying energy for a growing economy while reducing both our dependence
on foreign energy supplies and emissions from the burning of fossil fuels.
The industrial and transportation sectors are responsible for more than
half of the greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S., and imported oil
supplies 70% of the energy used in the transportation sector. It is
therefore important to examine the various ways nuclear energy can
facilitate a transition away from fossil fuels to secure environmentally
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Business Case for Energy Efficiency in Support of Climate Change
Mitigation, Economic and Societal Benefits in China

by McNeil, Michael A.; Bojda, Nicholas; Ke, Jing; Qin, Yining; de la Rue
du Can, Stephane; Fridley, David; Letschert, Virginie E.; McMahon, James
E. (Aug. 2011)

This study seeks to provide policymakers and other stakeholders with
actionable information towards a road map for reducing energy consumption
cost-effectively. We focus on individual end use equipment types
(hereafter referred to as appliance groups) that might be the subject of
policies - such as labels, energy performance standards, and incentives -
to affect market transformation in the short term, and on high-efficiency
technology options that are available today. As the study title suggests,
the high efficiency or Business Case scenario is constructed around a
model of cost-effective efficiency improvement. Our analysis demonstrates
that a significant reduction in energy consumption more

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22.
New Horizons for Hydrogen: Producing Hydrogen from Renewable Resources

(Feb. 2011)

Recent events have reminded us of the critical need to transition from
crude oil, coal, and natural gas toward sustainable and domestic sources
of energy. One reason is we need to strengthen our economy. In 2008 we saw
the price of oil reach a record $93 per barrel. With higher oil prices,
growing demand for gasoline, and increasing oil imports, an average of
$235 billion per year, has left the United States economy to pay for
foreign oil since 2005, or $1.2 trillion between 2005 and 2009. From a
consumer perspective, this trend is seen with an average gasoline price
more

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23.
Climate Change, Nuclear Power and Nuclear Proliferation: Magnitude
Matters

by Robert J. Goldston (Apr. 2011)

Integrated energy, environment and economics modeling suggests that
worldwide electrical energy use will increase from 2.4 TWe today to ~12
TWe in 2100. It will be challenging to provide 40% of this electrical
power from combustion with carbon sequestration, as it will be challenging
to provide 30% from renewable energy sources derived from natural energy
flows. Thus nuclear power may be needed to provide ~30%, 3600 GWe, by
2100. Calculations of the associated stocks and flows of uranium,
plutonium and minor actinides indicate that the proliferation risks at
mid-century, using current light-water reactor technology, are daunting.
There are institutional arrangements more

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24.
The physical science behind climate change

by Collins, William; Collins, William; Colman, Robert; Haywood, James;
Manning, Martin R.; Mote, Philip (Jul. 2007)

For a scientist studying climate change, 'eureka' moments are unusually
rare. Instead progress is generally made by a painstaking piecing together
of evidence from every new temperature measurement, satellite sounding or
climate-model experiment. Data get checked and rechecked, ideas tested
over and over again. Do the observations fit the predicted changes? Could
there be some alternative explanation? Good climate scientists, like all
good scientists, want to ensure that the highest standards of proof apply
to everything they discover. And the evidence of change has mounted as
climate records have grown longer, as our understanding of the climate
system has improved more

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25.
Modeling of Oceanic Gas Hydrate Instability and Methane Release in
Response to Climate Change

by Reagan, Matthew; Reagan, Matthew T.; Moridis, George J. (Apr. 2008)

Paleooceanographic evidence has been used to postulate that methane from
oceanic hydrates may have had a significant role in regulating global
climate, implicating global oceanic deposits of methane gas hydrate as the
main culprit in instances of rapid climate change that have occurred in
the past. However, the behavior of contemporary oceanic methane hydrate
deposits subjected to rapid temperature changes, like those predicted
under future climate change scenarios, is poorly understood. To determine
the fate of the carbon stored in these hydrates, we performed simulations
of oceanic gas hydrate accumulations subjected to temperature changes at
the seafloor and assessed the more

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26.
Body composition to climate change studies - the many facets of neutron
induced prompt gamma-ray analysis

by Mitra,S. (Nov. 2008)

In-vivo body composition analysis of humans and animals and in-situ
analysis of soil using fast neutron inelastic scattering and thermal
neutron capture induced prompt-gamma rays have been described. By
measuring carbon (C), nitrogen (N) and oxygen (O), protein, fat and water
are determined. C determination in soil has become important for
understanding below ground carbon sequestration process in the light of
climate change studies. Various neutron sources ranging from radio
isotopic to compact 14 MeV neutron generators employing the associated
particle neutron time-of-flight technique or micro-second pulsing were
implemented. Gamma spectroscopy using recently developed digital
multi-channel analyzers has also been more

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27.
Business Case for Energy Efficiency in Support of Climate Change
Mitigation, Economic and Societal Benefits in India

by McNeil, Michael A.; Ke, Jing; Can, Stephane de la Rue du; Letschert,
Virginie E.; McMahon, James E. (Dec. 2011)

This study seeks to provide policymakers and other stakeholders with
actionable information towards a road map for reducing energy consumption
cost-effectively. We focus on individual end use equipment types
(hereafter referred to as appliance groups) that might be the subject of
policies - such as labels, energy performance standards, and incentives -
to affect market transformation in the short term, and on high-efficiency
technology options that are available today. the high efficiency or
Business Case scenario is constructed around a model of cost-effective
efficiency improvement. Our analysis demonstrates that a significant
reduction in energy consumption and emissions is achievable at more

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28.
Climate Change Impacts on Residential and Commercial Loads in the Western
U.S. Grid

by Lu, Ning; Taylor, Zachary T.; Jiang, Wei; Xie, YuLong; Leung, Lai R.;
Correia, James; Wong, Pak C.; Mackey, Patrick S.; Paget, Maria L. (Sep.
2008)

This report presents a multi-disciplinary modeling approach to quickly
quantify climate change impacts on energy consumption, peak load, and load
composition of residential and commercial buildings. This research focuses
on addressing the impact of temperature changes on the building cooling
load in 10 major cities across the Western United States and Canada. Our
results have shown that by the mid-century, building yearly energy
consumption and peak load will increase in the Southwest. Moreover, the
peak load months will spread out to not only the summer months but also
spring and autumn months. The Pacific Northwest will experience more hot
days more

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Climate Change, Nuclear Power and Nuclear Proliferation: Magnitude
Matters

by Robert J. Goldston (Mar. 2010)

Integrated energy, environment and economics modeling suggests electrical
energy use will increase from 2.4 TWe today to 12 TWe in 2100. It will be
challenging to provide 40% of this electrical power from combustion with
carbon sequestration, as it will be challenging to provide 30% from
renewable energy sources. Thus nuclear power may be needed to provide ~30%
by 2100. Calculations of the associated stocks and flows of uranium,
plutonium and minor actinides indicate that the proliferation risks at
mid-century, using current light-water reactor technology, are daunting.
There are institutional arrangements that may be able to provide an
acceptable level more

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20% Wind Energy - Diversifying Our Energy Portfolio and Addressing
Climate Change (Brochure)

(May 2008)

This brochure describes the R&D efforts needed for wind energy to meet 20%
of the U.S. electrical demand by 2030. In May 2008, DOE published its
report, 20% Wind Energy by 2030, which presents an in-depth analysis of
the potential for wind energy in the United States and outlines a
potential scenario to boost wind electric generation from its current
production of 16.8 gigawatts (GW) to 304 GW by 2030. According to the
report, achieving 20% wind energy by 2030 could help address climate
change by reducing electric sector carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by 825
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