Low-cost flywheel demonstration program. Final report (open access)

Low-cost flywheel demonstration program. Final report

The Applied Physics Laboratory/Department of Energy Low Cost Flywheel Demonstration Program was initiated on 1 October 1977 and was successfully concluded on 31 December 19'9. The total cost of this program was $355,190. All primary objectives were successfully achieved as follows: demonstration of a full-size, 1)kWh flywheel having an estimated cost in large-volume production of approximately $50/kWh; developmeNt of a ball-bearing system having losses comparable to the losses in a totally magnetic suspension system; successful and repeated demonstration of the low-cost flywheel in a complete flywheel energy-storage system based on the use of ordinary house voltage and frequency; and application of the experience gained in the hardware program to project the system design into a complete, full-scale, 30-kWh home-type flywheel energy-storage system.
Date: April 1, 1980
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Low-cost flywheel demonstration program. Final report, 1 October 1977-31 December 1979 (open access)

Low-cost flywheel demonstration program. Final report, 1 October 1977-31 December 1979

The Applied Physics Laboratory/Department of Energy Low Cost Flywheel Demonstration Program was initiated on 1 October 1977 and was successfully concluded on 31 December 1979. The total cost of this program was $355,190. All primary objectives were successfully achieved as follows: demonstration of a full-size, 1-kWh flywheel having an estimated cost in large-volume production of approximately $50/kWh; development of a ball-bearing system having losses comparable to the losses in a totally magnetic suspension system; successful and repeated demonstration of the low-cost flywheel in a complete flywheel energy-storage system based on the use of ordinary house voltage and frequency; and application of the experience gained in the hardware program to project the system design into a complete, full-scale, 30-kWh home-type flywheel energy-storage system.
Date: April 1, 1980
Creator: Rabenhorst, D. W.; Small, T. R. & Wilkinson, W. O.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Low-Voltage Room Thermostat Performance (open access)

Low-Voltage Room Thermostat Performance

Report issued by the National Bureau of Standards over low voltage electric thermostats. Thermostat test results are discussed. This report includes illustrations, and photographs.
Date: April 1983
Creator: Kao, James Y.; Sushinsky, George; Didion, David A.; Mastascusa, E. J. & Chi, Joseph
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Preventing Illness and Injury in the Workplace (open access)

Preventing Illness and Injury in the Workplace

A report by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) that "examines three main topics: identification of occupational hazards, including the available data on injuries and illnesses; development of control technologies for reducing or eliminating workplace hazards; and the incentives and imperatives that influence decisions to control hazards" (p. iii).
Date: April 1985
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Superfund Strategy (open access)

Superfund Strategy

A report by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) that looks at "problems with long-term containment of newly generated hazardous wastes" in relation to the Superfund program (p. iii).
Date: April 1985
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Technology, Renewable Resources, and American Crafts: Background Paper (open access)

Technology, Renewable Resources, and American Crafts: Background Paper

A background paper by Office of Technology Assessment that "summarizes technology's effects on crafts (some of which are folk and fine art) that use renewable resources as raw materials" (p. iii).
Date: April 1984
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Holding the Edge: Maintaining the Defense Technology Base (open access)

Holding the Edge: Maintaining the Defense Technology Base

This report examines the management of DoD technology base programs and laboratories. It also analyzes the process through which technology is introduced into defense systems, in order to understand why it takes so long and what might be done to speed the process up. Finally, this report examines the exploitation of civilian commercial sector technology for defense needs. It concentrates on the dual questions of expediting military access to civilian technology and keeping the necessary base of technology alive and well in the United States.
Date: April 1989
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Mapping Our Genes—Genome Projects: How Big? How Fast? (open access)

Mapping Our Genes—Genome Projects: How Big? How Fast?

Scientific and technical journals in biology and medicine have extensively covered a debate about whether and how to determine the function and order of human genes on human chromosomes and when to determine the sequence of molecular building blocks that comprise DNA in those chromosomes. This report surveys the points made so far in the debate that involves science, technology, and politics, focusing on those that most directly influence the policy options facing the U.S. Congress.
Date: April 1988
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
New Developments in Biotechnology: Patenting Life (open access)

New Developments in Biotechnology: Patenting Life

This report reviews U.S. patent law as it relates to the patentability of micro-organisms, cells, plants, and animals; as well as specific areas of concern, including deposit requirements and international considerations. The report includes a range of options for congressional action related to the patenting of animals, intellectual property protection for plants, and enablement of patents involving biological material.
Date: April 1989
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Technology Transfer to the United States: The MIT-Japan Science and Technology Program (open access)

Technology Transfer to the United States: The MIT-Japan Science and Technology Program

On September 13, 1988, the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Japan Science and Technology Program (JSTP) held a one-day workshop to discuss MIT’s Japan Science and Technology Program’s internship program and its technical language workshop. This document gives a brief description the MIT-Japan Science and Technology of Program. It then reports the principal themes and issues raised at the workshop.
Date: April 1989
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Indian Health Care (open access)

Indian Health Care

This report is an assessment of health care for American Indians and Alaska Natives who are eligible for medical and health-related services from the Federal Government. The Federal agency that is responsible for providing these services is the Indian Health Service (IHS), a component of the Public Health Service (PHS) in the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS).
Date: April 1986
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Intellectual Property Rights in an Age of Electronics and Information (open access)

Intellectual Property Rights in an Age of Electronics and Information

This report examines the impact of recent and anticipated advances in communication and information technologies on the intellectual property system. It focuses primarily on the Federal copyright system, and on the continuing effectiveness of copyright law as a policy tool in the light of technologies such as audioand videorecorders, computer programs, electronic databases, and telecommunications networks.
Date: April 1986
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Losing a million minds: confronting the tragedy of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias (open access)

Losing a million minds: confronting the tragedy of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias

This report involves collection of more than 10)000 pages of existing documents and preparation of more than 40 papers by outside experts under contract to OTA. Many of the OTA contract reports have been released to the National Technical Information Service or published elsewhere.
Date: April 1987
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Urban Ozone and the Clean Air Act: Problems and Proposals for Change (open access)

Urban Ozone and the Clean Air Act: Problems and Proposals for Change

The staff paper is part of a larger, ongoing OTA assessment of the ozone nonattainment issue, requested by the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works and the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Date: April 1988
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The U.S. textile and apparel industry: a revolution in progress: special report (open access)

The U.S. textile and apparel industry: a revolution in progress: special report

This special report supports a larger OTA project that analyzes the effects of technological change and international trade on the structure of the domestic economy and options for public policy. The textile and apparel industries were selected for special attention because they provide key insights into the problems of changing manufacturing enterprises.
Date: April 1987
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Wastes in marine environments (open access)

Wastes in marine environments

This final report addresses two fundamental questions: what is the general condition of different marine environments and their resources, and what role can and should marine environments play in overall waste management?
Date: April 1987
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Costs and Effectiveness of Cholesterol Screening in the Elderly (open access)

Costs and Effectiveness of Cholesterol Screening in the Elderly

This paper reviews the evidence that elevation of serum cholesterol (hypercholesterolemia) is an independent risk factor for cardiovascular disease in the elderly and that the detection and treatment of hypercholesterolemia in an elderly individual who does not have clinically apparent heart disease will diminish overall morbidity or mortality. It also estimates health care expenditures associated with screening and treatment of hypercholesterolemia in the elderly.
Date: April 1989
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
TACB Bulletin, Number 2, April 30, 1987 (open access)

TACB Bulletin, Number 2, April 30, 1987

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: April 30, 1987
Creator: Texas Air Control Board
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Standards Committee Activities of the National Bureau of Standards: 1983 Highlights (open access)

Standards Committee Activities of the National Bureau of Standards: 1983 Highlights

Abstract: This report summarizes NBS standards committee activities and accomplishments during calendar year 1983. It profiles NBS state participation on outside standards committees and highlights significant technical and individual contributions made by NBS staff. In 1983, 446 staff members (or 28% of NBS' professionals, scientific, and technical staff) participated in 989 standards committees of 87 national and international standards organizations.
Date: April 1984
Creator: Newell, Karl G., Jr.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Research and Innovation in the Building Regulatory Process (open access)

Research and Innovation in the Building Regulatory Process

This document contains the Proceedings of the Sixth NBS/NCSBCS Joint Conference on Research and Innovation in the Building Regulatory Process, held on September 11, 1984, in Denver, CO. This conference addressed streamlined administrative procedures, computers in construction, and fire safety technology. These Proceedings contain the 10 papers selected for presentation at the conference.
Date: April 1985
Creator: Beavers, Linda
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
VOR Calibration Services (open access)

VOR Calibration Services

from Introduction: The National Bureau of Standards has designed, constructed, and evaluated a standard for the support of very-high-frequency omnidirectional range (VOR) air navigation aids. The standard consists of two instruments: (1) a digital waveform signal generator for the composite VOR audio waveform, and (2) a standard phasemeter based on time series analysis of this waveform. Experimental results, a statistical analysis of them, and the principal software listings are included.
Date: April 1985
Creator: Larsen, Neil T.; Vecchia, Dominic F. & Sugar, George R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Aerial Gamma Ray and Magnetic Survey, Final Repot: Nemo Detail Area of South Dakota, Volume 1 (open access)

Aerial Gamma Ray and Magnetic Survey, Final Repot: Nemo Detail Area of South Dakota, Volume 1

The following report is the first volume documenting the high sensitivity airborne radiometric and magnetic data taken during the month of April, 1980, by EG&G geoMetrics in the western areas of South Dakota. This volume contains survey description, specifications, data processing methods, interpretation methods, and regional geologic review.
Date: April 1980
Creator: EG & G GeoMetrics
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Aerial Gamma Ray and Magnetic Survey, Final Repot: Nemo Detail Area of South Dakota, Volume 2 (open access)

Aerial Gamma Ray and Magnetic Survey, Final Repot: Nemo Detail Area of South Dakota, Volume 2

This report is one part of the second volume containing data on the Nemo Detail area in South Dakota. This volume contains the detailed geologic summary, interpretation report, standard deviation maps, pseudo-contour maps, interpretation map, flight line and geologic base map, individual corrected profiles, computer map unit histograms and statistical tables.
Date: April 1980
Creator: EG & G GeoMetrics
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Effects of office automation on the public sector workforce: a case study (open access)

Effects of office automation on the public sector workforce: a case study

The objective of this report is to identify and explore conditions under which office automation has been successfully and productively implemented in New York city municipal offices.
Date: April 1985
Creator: Greenbaum, Joan M.; Pullman, Cydney & Szymanski, Sharon
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library