Effectiveness Of The United States Advanced Battery Consortium As A Government Industry Partnership

Author : National Research Council,Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems,Committee to Review the U.S. Advanced Battery Consortium's Electric Vehicle Battery Research and Development Project Selection Process
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1998-08-14
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780309173872

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Effectiveness of the United States Advanced Battery Consortium as a Government-Industry Partnership by National Research Council,Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems,Committee to Review the U.S. Advanced Battery Consortium's Electric Vehicle Battery Research and Development Project Selection Process Pdf

This study by the National Research Council (NRC) was requested by DOE's Office of Advanced Automotive Technologies. The study focuses on the processes used by the USABC to select, evaluate, and manage R&D projects on EV batteries in Phases I and II of the program.

Author : National Research Council,Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems,Committee to Review the U.S. Advanced Battery Consortium's Electric Vehicle Battery Research and Development Project Selection Process
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1998-09-14
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780309061438

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Effectiveness of the United States Advanced Battery Consortium as a Government-Industry Partnership by National Research Council,Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems,Committee to Review the U.S. Advanced Battery Consortium's Electric Vehicle Battery Research and Development Project Selection Process Pdf

This study by the National Research Council (NRC) was requested by DOE's Office of Advanced Automotive Technologies. The study focuses on the processes used by the USABC to select, evaluate, and manage R&D projects on EV batteries in Phases I and II of the program.

Author : National Research Council,Policy and Global Affairs,Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2001-07-06
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780309170710

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The Advanced Technology Program by National Research Council,Policy and Global Affairs,Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy Pdf

This report examines the operations of the APT, reviews its extensive assessment program, and provides NRC Committee findings concerning the ATP's operations and recommendations for potential improvements to the program. The report includes a summary of a major conference held in April 2000 as well as seven papers, including surveys of the industry participants or users of the ATP program, a summary of the results of fifty awards, detailed assessments of major joint ventures, and a description of the current selection process. It is the most comprehensive study to date of the program's origins, operations, achievements, and assessment. Its conclusion: the program works.

Author : National Research Council,Technology and Economic Policy,Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1999-10-22
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780309172585

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The Small Business Innovation Research Program by National Research Council,Technology and Economic Policy,Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy Pdf

Small businesses have increasingly been recognized as a source of innovation, and one way in which the Federal government encourages such innovation is through the Small Business Innovation Research program. SBIR sets aside 2.5 percent of federal agencies' R&D budgets for R&D grants to small business. Although the program's budget was nearly $1.2 billion in 1998, SBIR has been subject to relatively little outside review. As part of the STEP's ongoing project on Government-Industry Partnerships, the Board convened policymakers, academic researchers, and representatives from small business to discuss the program's history and rationale, review existing research, and identify areas for further research and program improvements.

Author : National Research Council,Technology and Economic Policy,Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1999-11-21
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780309067751

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Advanced Technology Program by National Research Council,Technology and Economic Policy,Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy Pdf

The growth in government programs to support high-technology industry within national economies and their impact on international science and technology cooperation and on the multilateral trading system are of considerable interest worldwide. Accordingly, these topics were taken up by STEP in a study carried out in conjunction with the Hamburg Institute for Economic Research and the Institute for World Economics in Kiel. One of the principal recommendations for further work emerging from that study was a call for an analysis of the principles of effective cooperation in technology development, to include lessons from national and international consortia, including eligibility standards and assessments of what new cooperative mechanisms might be developed to meet the challenges of international cooperation in high-technology products.

Author : Albert N. Link,Alan C. O'Connor,Troy J. Scott
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-10
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781317608691

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Battery Technology for Electric Vehicles by Albert N. Link,Alan C. O'Connor,Troy J. Scott Pdf

Electric drive vehicles (EDVs) are seen on American roads in increasing numbers. Related to this market trend and critical for it to increase are improvements in battery technology. Battery Technology for Electric Vehicles examines in detail at the research support from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) for the development of nickel-metal-hydride (NiMH) and lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries used in EDVs. With public support comes accountability of the social outcomes associated with public investments. The book overviews DOE investments in advanced battery technology, documents the adoption of these batteries in EDVs on the road, and calculates the economic benefits associated with these improved technologies. It provides a detailed global evaluation of the net social benefits associated with DOEs investments, the results of the benefit-to-cost ratio of over 3.6-to-1, and the life-cycle approach that allows adopted EDVs to remain on the road over their expected future life, thus generating economic and environmental health benefits into the future.

Author : Lawrence A. Kreiser,Ana Yábar Sterling,Pedro Herrera,Janet E. Milne,Hope Ashiabor
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781781952184

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Green Taxation and Environmental Sustainability by Lawrence A. Kreiser,Ana Yábar Sterling,Pedro Herrera,Janet E. Milne,Hope Ashiabor Pdf

Green Taxation and Environmental Sustainability explores the critical issue of how taxes can be applied across relevant environmental issues _ including transport, nuclear power, and water and waste management _ to achieve sustainability. Containing topical chapters written by environmental experts, the book covers a number of key issues, including interaction of biofuels and EU state aid rules; territorial differences for transport fuel demand; electric vehicles, taxation and electricity transmission; public policy issues on the disposal of high-level radioactive waste in Japan; landfill and waste incineration taxes; and many other topics. This insightful study will appeal to policy makers in government, as well as to students and academics in environmental law, environmental economics and environmental sustainability.

Author : Lee Vinsel
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-16
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781421429663

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Moving Violations by Lee Vinsel Pdf

The first comprehensive history of auto regulation in the United States. Regulation has shaped the evolution of the automobile from the beginning. In Moving Violations, Lee Vinsel shows that, contrary to popular opinion, these restrictions have not hindered technological change. Rather, by drawing together communities of scientific and technical experts, auto regulations have actually fostered innovation. Vinsel tracks the history of American auto regulation from the era of horseless carriages and the first, faltering efforts to establish speed limits in cities to recent experiments with self-driving cars. He examines how the government has tried to address car-related problems, from accidents to air pollution, and demonstrates that automotive safety, emissions, and fuel economy have all improved massively over time. Touching on fuel economy standards, the rise of traffic laws, the birth of drivers' education classes, and the science of distraction, he also describes how the government's changing activities have reshaped the automobile and its drivers, as well as the country's entire system of roadways and supporting technologies, including traffic lights and gas pumps. Moving Violations examines how policymakers, elected officials, consumer advocates, environmentalists, and other interested parties wrestled to control the negative aspects of American car culture while attempting to preserve what they saw as its positive contributions to society. Written in a clear, approachable, and jargon-free voice, Moving Violations will appeal to makers and analysts of policy, historians of science, technology, business, and the environment, and any readers interested in the history of cars and government.

Author : National Research Council,Policy and Global Affairs,Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences,Board on Energy and Environmental Systems,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology,Committee on Health, Environmental, and Other External Costs and Benefits of Energy Production and Consumption
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2010-05-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780309155809

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Hidden Costs of Energy by National Research Council,Policy and Global Affairs,Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences,Board on Energy and Environmental Systems,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology,Committee on Health, Environmental, and Other External Costs and Benefits of Energy Production and Consumption Pdf

Despite the many benefits of energy, most of which are reflected in energy market prices, the production, distribution, and use of energy causes negative effects. Many of these negative effects are not reflected in energy market prices. When market failures like this occur, there may be a case for government interventions in the form of regulations, taxes, fees, tradable permits, or other instruments that will motivate recognition of these external or hidden costs. The Hidden Costs of Energy defines and evaluates key external costs and benefits that are associated with the production, distribution, and use of energy, but are not reflected in market prices. The damage estimates presented are substantial and reflect damages from air pollution associated with electricity generation, motor vehicle transportation, and heat generation. The book also considers other effects not quantified in dollar amounts, such as damages from climate change, effects of some air pollutants such as mercury, and risks to national security. While not a comprehensive guide to policy, this analysis indicates that major initiatives to further reduce other emissions, improve energy efficiency, or shift to a cleaner electricity generating mix could substantially reduce the damages of external effects. A first step in minimizing the adverse consequences of new energy technologies is to better understand these external effects and damages. The Hidden Costs of Energy will therefore be a vital informational tool for government policy makers, scientists, and economists in even the earliest stages of research and development on energy technologies.

Author : S. Wong
Publisher : Springer
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2006-11-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780312376185

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Environmental Technology Development in Liberal and Coordinated Market Economies by S. Wong Pdf

This book explores the role of institutions in policy-making and the states, role in promotion of technology, focusing on, environmental technology development. Case studies include wind power diffusion in the UK and Germany, waste recycling in a variety of countries, and green automobile technology in the US and Japan.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, and International Security
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Political Science
ISBN : PSU:000058162378

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An Assessment of Federal Funding for Private Research and Development by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, and International Security Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science. Subcommittee on Environment, Technology, and Standards
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Political Science
ISBN : PSU:000045435379

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The Future of the Advanced Technology Program by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science. Subcommittee on Environment, Technology, and Standards Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of the Interior and Related Agencies
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1044 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : United States
ISBN : SRLF:AA0008819922

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Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations for 1999: Justification of the budget estimates, United States Forest Service, Department of Energy by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Pdf

Author : National Research Council,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences,Board on Energy and Environmental Systems,Committee on Benefits of DOE R&D on Energy Efficiency and Fossil Energy
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2001-12-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780309074483

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Energy Research at DOE by National Research Council,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences,Board on Energy and Environmental Systems,Committee on Benefits of DOE R&D on Energy Efficiency and Fossil Energy Pdf

In legislation appropriating funds for DOE's fiscal year (FY) 2000 energy R&D budget, the House Interior Appropriations Subcommittee directed an evaluation of the benefits that have accrued to the nation from the R&D conducted since 1978 in DOE's energy efficiency and fossil energy programs. In response to the congressional charge, the National Research Council formed the Committee on Benefits of DOE R&D on Energy Efficiency and Fossil Energy. From its inception, DOE's energy R&D program has been the subject of many outside evaluations. The present evaluation asks whether the benefits of the program have justified the considerable expenditure of public funds since DOE's formation in 1977, and, unlike earlier evaluations, it takes a comprehensive look at the actual outcomes of DOE's research over two decades.

Author : DIANE Publishing Company
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1995-08
Category : Competition, International
ISBN : 9780788121319

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Industry, Technology and the Environment by DIANE Publishing Company Pdf

Analyzes the international competitiveness of U.S. industries that are affected by environmental policies: (1) firms that develop & market environmental technologies & services; & (2) companies that must meet U.S. environmental requirements (especially manufacturing firms). Includes trends in the global environmental market, U.S. competitiveness in environmental technologies & services, environmental requirements, cleaner technology, compliance, regulations, incentives, & government support. Photos, figures & graphs.