Ocean energy systems. Quarterly report, October-December 1982 (open access)

Ocean energy systems. Quarterly report, October-December 1982

Research progress is reported on developing Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) systems that will provide synthetic fuels (e.g., methanol), energy-intensive products such as ammonia (for fertilizers and chemicals), and aluminum. The work also includes assessment and design concepts for hybrid plants, such as geothermal-OTEC (GEOTEC) plants. Another effort that began in the spring of 1982 is a technical advisory role to DOE with respect to their management of the conceptual design activity of the two industry teams that are designing offshore OTEC pilot plants that could deliver power to Oahu, Hawaii. In addition, a program is underway in which tests of a different kind of ocean-energy device, a turbine that is air-driven as a result of wave action in a chamber, are being planned. This Quarterly Report summarizes the work on the various tasks as of 31 December 1982.
Date: December 1, 1982
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
20-kW Solar Photovoltaic Flat-Panel Power System for an Uninterruptible Power-System Load in El Paso, Texas. Phase Ii. System Fabrication. Final Report October 1, 1979-May 31, 1981 (open access)

20-kW Solar Photovoltaic Flat-Panel Power System for an Uninterruptible Power-System Load in El Paso, Texas. Phase Ii. System Fabrication. Final Report October 1, 1979-May 31, 1981

The system plans, construction, integration and test, and performance evaluation are discussed for the photovoltaic power supply at the Newman Power Station in El Paso, Texas. The system consists of 64 parallel-connected panels, each panel containing nine series-connected photovoltaic modules. The system is connected, through power monitoring equipment, to an existing DC bus that supplies uninterruptible power to a computer that controls the power generating equipment. The site is described and possible environmental hazards are assessed. Site preparation and the installation of the photovoltaic panels, electrical cabling, and instrumentation subsystems are described. System testing includes initial system checkout, module performance test, control system test. A training program for operators and maintenance personnel is briefly described, including visual aids. Performance data collection and analysis are described, and actual data are compared with a computer simulation. System drawings are included. (LEW)
Date: December 1, 1981
Creator: Risser, V.V.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Potential Energy Savings in Residential Oil-Fired Heating Systems in the United States (open access)

Potential Energy Savings in Residential Oil-Fired Heating Systems in the United States

Report issued by the National Bureau of Standards over studies conducted on the potential energy savings of residential heating systems. The results of oil-fired heating systems are discussed. This report includes tables, graphs, and illustrations.
Date: December 1984
Creator: Kelly, George E.; Didion, David A.; Quigley, D. & Collins, B.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Children's Mental Health: Problems and Services: Background Paper (open access)

Children's Mental Health: Problems and Services: Background Paper

A background paper by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) over the mental health problems of children and adolescents and the need for appropriateness of mental health services.
Date: December 1986
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Reproductive Health Hazards in the Workplace (open access)

Reproductive Health Hazards in the Workplace

A report by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) that "reviews current knowledge of hazards and suspected hazards to the reproductive health of American's working men and women and to the health and well-being of their children" (Foreword).
Date: December 1985
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Neonatal intensive care for low birthweight infants: costs and effectiveness (open access)

Neonatal intensive care for low birthweight infants: costs and effectiveness

The purpose of this report is to provide OTA with specific information that can be used in forming general conclusions regarding broader policy issues. The first 19 cases in the Health Technology Case Study Series, for example, were conducted in conjunction with OTA’s overall project on The Implications of Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Medical Technology. By examining the 19 cases as a group and looking for common problems or strengths in the techniques of cost-effectiveness or cost-benefit analysis, OTA was able to better analyze the potential contribution that those techniques might make to the management of medical technology and health care costs and quality.
Date: December 1987
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and certified nurse-midwives: a policy analysis (open access)

Nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and certified nurse-midwives: a policy analysis

A report on the primary purpose of this report is to provide OTA with specific information that can be used in forming general conclusions regarding broader policy issues.
Date: December 1986
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Elementary and Secondary Education for Science and Engineering (open access)

Elementary and Secondary Education for Science and Engineering

Students make many choices over a long period, and choose a career through a complicated process. This process includes formal instruction in mathematics and science, and the opportunity for informal education in museums, science centers, and recreational programs. The influence of family, teachers, peers, and the electronic media can make an enormous difference. This memorandum analyzes these influences. Because education is “all one system, ” policymakers interested in nurturing scientists and engineers must address the educational environment as a totality; changing only one part of the system will not yield the desired result.
Date: December 1988
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
TACB Bulletin, Number 3, December 28, 1988 (open access)

TACB Bulletin, Number 3, December 28, 1988

Newsletter of the Texas Air Control Board including information about the Board as well as news, events, and other relevant information related to air quality in Texas.
Date: December 28, 1988
Creator: Texas Air Control Board
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
TACB Bulletin, Number 3, December 1989 (open access)

TACB Bulletin, Number 3, December 1989

Newsletter of the Texas Air Control Board including information about the Board as well as news, events, and other relevant information related to air quality in Texas.
Date: December 1989
Creator: Texas Air Control Board
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Facilities of the National Bureau of Standards (open access)

Facilities of the National Bureau of Standards

From forward: Every laboratory in this country is a valuable national resource. Along with the people who work in these facilities, U.S. laboratories constitute the basic foundation of this country's scientific and industrial strength. As the nation's foremost science and engineering measurement laboratory, the National Bureau of Standards has some of the premier research and testing facilities in the United States, and several of our laboratories are unequaled anywhere in the world. Bureau scientists and engineers use these special facilities to pursue the measurement-related work that U.S. science and industry need to grow and prosper. This brochure highlights only a small number of the special facilities available at NBS and provides information about their availability for collaborative or independent research and testing.
Date: December 19, 1984
Creator: United States. National Bureau of Standards.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Ocean thermal energy. Quarterly report, October-December 1981 (open access)

Ocean thermal energy. Quarterly report, October-December 1981

This quarterly report summarizes work on the following tasks: OTEC methanol; approaches for financing OTEC proof-of-concept experimental vessels; investigation of OTEC-ammonia as an alternative fuel; review of electrolyzer development programs and requirements; hybrid geothermal-OTEC power plants: single-cycle performance; estimates; and hybrid geothermal-OTEC power plants: dual-cycle performance estimates.
Date: December 30, 1981
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Fact sheets relating to use of geothermal energy in the United States (open access)

Fact sheets relating to use of geothermal energy in the United States

A compilation of data relating to geothermal energy in each of the 50 states is presented. The data are summarized on one page for each state. All summary data sheets use a common format. Following the summary data sheet there are additional data on the geology of each state pertaining to possible hydrothermal/geothermal resources. Also there is a list of some of the reports available pertaining to the state and state energy contacts. The intent of these documents is to present in a concise form reference data for planning by the Department of Energy.
Date: December 1, 1980
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The impact of office automation on the quality of work life: policy implications (open access)

The impact of office automation on the quality of work life: policy implications

This report focuses only on policy implication of video display terminals (VDT) usage in the areas of composition and edition/correction. The rest of the paper presents a brief discussion of the problems resulting from VDT adoption and usage in the office workplace, and the policy implications of both primary and instrumental impacts as described earlier.
Date: December 1984
Creator: Ashford, Nicholas A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Texas Attorney General Opinion: JM-1118 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: JM-1118

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Jim Mattox, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification; Obligation of a real estate licensee with regard to disclosure that a previous or current occupant of real property had or has AIDS or HIV infection (RQ-1797)
Date: December 6, 1989
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: JM-1119 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: JM-1119

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Jim Mattox, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification;Effect and Authority of a grand jury recommendation regarding a county's use of night depositories(RQ-1859).
Date: December 18, 1989
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: JM-1120 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: JM-1120

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Jim Mattox, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification; Whether a commissioners court may authorize a justice of the peace to retain a portion of assessed fines for the purpose of funding additional positions (RQ-1851)
Date: December 19, 1989
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: JM-1121 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: JM-1121

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Jim Mattox, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification;Authority of a sheriff to contract regarding the jail commissary without consulting the county purchasing agent (RQ-1846).
Date: December 20, 1989
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: JM-1122 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: JM-1122

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Jim Mattox, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification; Authority of the Matagorda County-Palacios Seawall Commission to expend funds to create a public beach (RQ-1808)
Date: December 21, 1989
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: JM-1123 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: JM-1123

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Jim Mattox, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification;Ownership of an artificially restored beach and related questions(RQ-1767).
Date: December 22, 1989
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: JM-1124 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: JM-1124

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Jim Mattox, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification; Effect of amendments to statutes that allow a driver to defer disposition of punishment pending successful completion of a defensive driving course (RQ-1815)
Date: December 27, 1989
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: JM-1125 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: JM-1125

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Jim Mattox, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification;Constructions of the provisions of the Insurance Code article 21.28-A,regarding conservatorship (RQ-1804)
Date: December 27, 1989
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: JM-1126 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: JM-1126

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Jim Mattox, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification;Duty of a county clerk to notify the Department of public safety about the mental competence of a person holding a driver's license(RQ-1842).
Date: December 28, 1989
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: JM-1127 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: JM-1127

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Jim Mattox, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether attendance of a quorum of members of the Texas Credit Union Commission at a board meeting of the Texas Share Guaranty Credit Union is a “meeting” under article 6252-17, V.T.C.S. (RQ-1763)
Date: December 28, 1989
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History