Browsing Faculty of Arts and Sciences by Keyword "energy"
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Accelerated Reduction in \(SO_2\) Emissions from the U.S. Power Sector Triggered by Changing Prices of Natural Gas
(American Chemical Society, 2012)Emissions of sulfur dioxide (\(SO_2\)) from the U.S. power sector decreased by 24% in 2009 relative to 2008. The Logarithmic Mean Divisia Index (LMDI) approach was applied to isolate the factors responsible for this decrease. ... -
Electricity Storage for Intermittent Renewable Sources
(Royal Society of Chemistry, 2012)With sufficient electricity storage capacity, any power production profile may be mapped onto any desired supply profile. We present a framework to determine the required storage power as a function of time for any power ... -
Electrode-Electrolyte Interfaces in Solid Polymer Lithium Batteries
(2012-09-24)This thesis studies the performance of solid polymer lithium batteries from room temperature to elevated temperatures using mainly electrochemical techniques, with emphasis on the bulk properties of the polymer electrolyte ... -
The Energetic Significance of Cooking
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2009)While cooking has long been argued to improve the diet, the nature of the improvement has not been well defined. As a result, the evolutionary significance of cooking has variously been proposed as being substantial or ... -
Energy Flows in Low-Entropy Complex Systems
(MDPI AG, 2015)Nature’s many complex systems—physical, biological, and cultural—are islands of low-entropy order within increasingly disordered seas of surrounding, high-entropy chaos. Energy is a principal facilitator of the rising ... -
Energy rate density as a complexity metric and evolutionary driver
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2010)The proposition that complexity generally increases with evolution seems indisputable. Both developmental and generational changes often display a rise in the number and diversity of properties describing a wide spectrum ... -
Energy rate density. II. Probing further a new complexity metric
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2011)Appraisal of the concept of energy rate density continues, as both a potential quantitative metric for complexity studies and a key feature of a unifying hypothesis for the origin and evolution of material systems throughout ... -
Equi-energy sampler with applications in statistical inference and statistical mechanics
(Institute of Mathematical Statistics, 2006)We introduce a new sampling algorithm, the equi-energy sampler, for efficient statistical sampling and estimation. Complementary to the widely used temperature-domain methods, the equi-energy sampler, utilizing the ... -
Maximizing the Energy Density of Dielectric Elastomer Generators Using Equi-Biaxial Loading
(Wiley-VCH Verlag Berlin, 2013-03-29)Dielectric elastomer generators (DEGs) for harvesting electrical energy from mechanical work have been demonstrated but the energy densities achieved are still small compared with theoretical predictions. We show that ... -
Nanowire Architectures for Next-Generation Solar Cells and Photonic Devices
(2013-02-15)This thesis presents the design and synthesis of nanowires (NW) with targeted and tunable optical properties. Moreover, we show how single and assembled NW devices can enable new photovoltaic (PV) and photonic platforms. ... -
Organic Molecules for High Performance Aqueous Redox Flow Battery and Electrochemically-Mediated Carbon Capture
(2022-07-28)CO2 emission primarily from fossil fuel combustion is causing climate change at an alarming rate. Consequently, there are increasing efforts worldwide to reduce societal reliance on fossil fuel-based energy and to switch ... -
A unifying concept for astrobiology
(Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2003)Evolution, broadly construed, has become a powerful unifying concept in much of science – not only in the biological evolution of plants and animals, but also in the physical evolution of stars and planets, and the cultural ...