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NREL North American Solar Radiation Atlas

Description: This presentation is about NREL's North American Solar Radiation Atlas, which currently includes 48 states (Alaska and Hawaii to be added in the future). It discusses the goals of the Atlas which are to: deliver basic solar performance estimates to general users, deliver a wide variety of additional information to more advanced users, be easy to use, full featured, and extensible.
Date: April 1, 2001
Creator: George, Ray & Gray-Hann, Pamela
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Progress Toward Roll Processing of Solar Reflective Material

Description: This presentation discusses the goal of this project which was to demonstrate that it is possible to cost-effectively produce high performance solar reflective material using vacuum deposition techniques.
Date: April 1, 2001
Creator: Smilgys, R.; Wallace, S. & Kennedy, C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Truckstop -- and Truck!-- Electrification

Description: The conclusions of this paper are: 0.5-1.5 G/H and/or BUSG/Y--how much time and money will it take to quantify and WHY BOTHER TO DO SO? No shortage of things to do re truckstop--+ truck!-- electrification; Better that government and industry should put many eggs in lots of baskets vs. all in one or few; Best concepts will surface as most viable; Economic appeal better than regulation or brute force; Launch Ground Freight Partnership and give it a chance to work; Demonstration is an effective me… more
Date: December 13, 2001
Creator: Yeakel, Skip
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Essential Power Systems Workshop - OEM Perspective

Description: In California, idling is largely done for climate control. This suggests that climate control devices alone could be used to reduce idling. Line-haul truck drivers surveyed require an average of 4-6 kW of power for a stereo, CB radio, light, refrigerator, and climate control found in the average truck. More power may likely be necessary for peak power demands. The amount of time line-haul trucks reported to have stopped is between 25 and 30 hours per week. It was not possible to accurately dete… more
Date: December 12, 2001
Creator: Gouse, Bill
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Gasrail 2001

Description: Air Quality Issues--Alameda Corridor - 19 miles - $2.4B; Alameda Corridor East - 35 miles - $0.95B; 65% increase in rail traffic next 20 years; Environmental Justice issues; Electrification not cost- effective; and Need to reduce locomotive emissions. Background--GasRail USA 1993- 1998; Develop LNG EMD 12- 710 commuter locomotive; 75% red. in NOx, opt. power & efficiency; Selected & developed LaCHIP; 1998 project halted - EMD withdrew; and Need to develop & demonstrate a low- emission locomotiv… more
Date: January 31, 2001
Creator: Bogdanoff, Mike
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

The Role of Batteries in Auxiliary Power for Heavy Trucks

Description: The problem that this paper deals with is that Heavy trucks leave their engines on while they are stopped and the driver is sleeping, eating, etc.
Date: December 12, 2001
Creator: Crouch, D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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