Roland Geyer-Do Lightweight Materials Reduce Automotive Greenhouse Gas Emissions?

Quantifying the net climate change impact of automotive material substitution is not a trivial task. It requires the assessment of the mass reduction potential of automotive materials, the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from their production and recycling, and their impact on GHG emissions from vehicle use. The model presented in this paper is based on life cycle assessment (LCA) and completely parameterized, i.e. its computational structure is separated from the required input data, which is not traditionally done in LCAs.

Energy Leadership Lecture Series: Mark Pinto

Over 40 years of thin film process innovations have helped enable the IC industry today to produce well over 1018 transistors per year at costs of nanodollars per transistor thereby empowering the information age. Likewise large area thin film manufacturing has dramatically improved the performance and cost of low cost displays over the past 15 years, enabling high definition video from the handheld to the wall mounted HDTV.

Chandra Krintz-AppScale: Open-source Platform-as-a-Service for Cloud Computing Research and Engineering

Cloud Computing is a term coined for a recent trend toward service-oriented computing on cluster-based distributed systems. Such systems provide users with a computing paradigm based on service-level agreements with which users gain access to vast, large-scale resources remotely.

Energy Leadership Lecture: Larry Smarr

The continuing rise in greenhouse gases (GHG) in Earth’s atmosphere caused by human activity is beginning to alter the delicately balanced climate system. Means to slow down the rate of GHG emissions are needed to avoid catastrophic climate change in the future. While moving from a high-carbon to a low-carbon energy system is the long term solution, more energy efficient cyberinfrastructure can provide some relief in the short term.

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