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The Dryden Flight Research Center, located at Edwards, California, is NASA's primary installation for flight research. Projects at Dryden over the past 50 years have lead to major advancements in the design and capabilities of many civilian and military aircraft. The history of the Dryden Flight Research Center is the story of modern flight research in this country. Since the pioneering days after World War II, when a small, intensely dedicated band of pilots, engineers, and technicians dared to challenge the "sound barrier" in the X-1, Dryden has been on the leading edge in aeronautics and, more recently, in space technology. The newest, the fastest, the highest - all have made their debut in the vast, clear desert skies over Dryden.

Taking their inspiration from the soft and wet natural world, engineers and scientists at CBIMMS are designing new tools and devices that aim at practical applications. The goal is to reverse engineer scores of millions of years of natural evolution. The mission of the center is to provide a greater understanding of mechanical properties associated with biological materials whose primary function is to sense environmental changes and respond by generating force or being modified by applied force; and to develop and refine the necessary instrumentation required to characterize these properties at multiple scales and to use this knowledge to provide hierarchical design approaches required to engineer devices capable of sensing and actuation at all scales for realization of new material systems.

Electronic ink is a proprietary material that is processed into a film for integration into electronic displays. Although revolutionary in concept, electronic ink is a straightforward fusion of chemistry, physics and electronics to create this new material. The principal components of electronic ink are millions of tiny microcapsules, about the diameter of a human hair. To form an E Ink electronic display, the ink is printed onto a sheet of plastic film that is laminated to a layer of circuitry. The circuitry forms a pattern of pixels that can then be controlled by a display driver. These microcapsules are suspended in a liquid "carrier medium" allowing them to be printed using existing screen printing processes onto virtually any surface, including glass, plastic, fabric and even paper. Ultimately electronic ink will permit most any surface to become a display, bringing information out of the confines of traditional devices and into the world around us.

The Energy and Environment Directorate (E&ED) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) is the home for LLNL's base of atmospheric, earth, environmental, and energy science. We focus on meeting major national needs, especially from a long-term perspective. As a "hybrid" directorate, we have dual responsibilities at LLNL: (1) We manage programs and perform key research in water and environment, energy, carbon and climate, the national nuclear waste repository, and aspects of homeland and national security. In this work, we draw upon the full resources of LLNL by "matrixing in" staff from other organizations, such as the Computation, Engineering, and Chemistry and Materials Science directorates. (2) We support other LLNL programs and organizations by supplying scientific and technical staff and expertise. Most of this "matrixed-out" support is to the Nonproliferation, Arms Control, and International Security Directorate and to the Defense and Nuclear Technology Directorate.

The Energy and Geoscience Institute (EGI) at the University of Utah is a non-profit research institute covering a wide range of fossil and geothermal energy research in cooperation with government and industry.

A gateway to hundreds of Web sites and thousands of online documents on energy efficiency and renewable energy.

EST is Brookhaven Laboratory's focal point for applied energy research, development, demonstration and deployment (RDD&D) activities for renewable, fossil and nuclear systems. Our mission is to perform basic science, analyses and technology development that provide innovative solutions to some of the world's most important energy challenges. We draw on the broad and deep expertise of our staff and resources, who work with other experts at BNL and government laboratories, industry and academia to support Department of Energy strategic goals.

The Energy Sciences Network, (ESnet)
is a high-speed network serving thousands of Department of Energy scientists and collaborators worldwide. A pioneer in providing high-bandwidth, reliable connections, ESnet enables researchers at national laboratories, universities and other institutions to communicate with each other using the collaborative capabilities needed to address some of the world's most important scientific challenges. Managed and operated by the ESnet staff at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, ESnet provides direct connections to all major DOE sites (site list) with high performance speeds, as well as fast interconnections to more than 100 other networks. Funded principally by DOE's Office of Science, ESnet services allow scientists to make effective use of unique DOE research facilities and computing resources, independent of time and geographic location. ESnet is funded by the DOE Office of Science to provide network and collaboration services in support of the agency's research missions.

The FAA operates the safest, most complex, and most efficient air navigation system in the world. We will continue to develop technologies that will utilize the airspace in safer, more efficient, and more environmentally sound ways. These investments involve modernize existing systems and introducing new capabilities.

The Florida Solar Energy Center (FSEC) is the largest and most active state-supported renewable energy and energy efficiency research, training, testing and certification institute in the United States. An institute of the University of Central Florida (UCF), FSEC functions as the state's energy research, training and certification center.

Fuel cells are an important enabling technology for the hydrogen economy and have the potential to revolutionize the way we power our nation, offering cleaner, more-efficient alternatives to the combustion of gasoline and other fossil fuels. Fuel cells have the potential to replace the internal combustion engine in vehicles and provide power in stationary and portable power applications because they are energy-efficient, clean, and fuel-flexible. Hydrogen or any hydrogen-rich fuel can be used by this emerging technology. DOE is working closely with its national laboratories, universities, and industry partners to overcome critical technical barriers to fuel cell commercialization. Current R&D focuses on the development of reliable, low-cost, high-performance fuel cell system components for transportation and buildings applications.

Garage Cinema Research is a research group directed by Professor Marc Davis at UC Berkeley's School of Information Management and Systems (SIMS) that is focused on creating the technology and applications that will enable daily media consumers to become daily media producers. Professor Davis' research and teaching encompass the theory, design, and development of digital media systems for creating and using media metadata to automate media production, sharing, and reuse.

The Geothermal Technologies Program is a cooperative program between the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy. The program works with commercial energy companies with the goal of establishing geothermal energy as an economically competitive contribution to the U.S. supply of energy. This website covers geothermal basics and educational resources, news, geothermal resource maps, financial opportunities, research and development, environmental and economic impacts, and laws and standards regarding geothermal energy production. If you want to learn more about geothermal energy technology and production, this is the place to start.

The Grid Research Integration Development and Support (GRIDS) Center has been created through the NSF Middleware Initiative (http://www.nsf-middleware.org/) to define, develop, deploy, and support an integrated national middleware infrastructure in support of 21st Century science and engineering applications. GRIDS is a partnership of the University of Southern Californias Information Sciences Institute (ISI), the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the University of Chicago (U of C), the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California-San Diego and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.