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Energy Sources for the Future
Steven G. Liescheidt, P.E., CSI-CCS, CCPR.
Overview
Throughout its history, the Department of Energy’s
Office of Science has designed, constructed, and operated many of the Nation’s
most advanced, large-scale research and development user facilities, of
importance to all areas of science. These state-of-the-art facilities are
shared with the science community worldwide and contain technologies and
instrumentation that are available nowhere else. As the steward of America’s
national laboratories, the Department of Energy has a special responsibility to
plan for and propose Office of Science investments for the future that will
serve to advance the national, energy, and economic security of the United
States.
In this course the student will learn about the
state-of-the art, cutting edge efforts by scientists and engineers in the United
States who are involved with research to continue to find alternate energy
sources for the future. These energy sources will be of vital importance to
sustaining and improving the quality of life on planet earth and beyond. The
student will learn that the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) leads the world in
the conception, design, construction, and operation of these large-scale
devices. The student will learn that these machines have enabled U.S.
researchers to make some of history’s important scientific discoveries, with
spin-off technological advances leading to entirely new industries.
The student is expected to read and review the material contained
in the Facilities for the Future of Science – A Twenty Year Outlook, Office of
Science – US DOE Publication: DOE/SC-0078 – Revised December 2003.
The student must take a multiple-choice quiz consisting of
fifteen (15) questions at the end of this course to obtain PDH credits.
Specific Knowledge or
Skill Attained
This
course teaches the how these facilities and research programs at these
facilities are contributing to the advancement of future energy sources:
- Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
- National Energy Research
Scientific Computing (NERSC) Center
- National Synchrotron Light
Source (NSLS)
- Stanford Synchrotron
Radiation Laboratory (SSRL)
- Advanced Light Source (ALS)
- Advanced Photon Source (APS)
- High Flux Isotope Reactor
(HFIR) Center for Neutron Scattering
- Intense Pulsed Neutron
Source (IPNS)
- Manuel Lujan Jr. Neutron
Scattering Center
Course
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it prior to taking a quiz for PDH credits.
Future Energy Sources (2.3 MB)
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