Thursday, March 26, 2009

Inspector General Report On Dod Wide Energy Efficient Technology Projects

Inspector General Report On Dod Wide Energy Efficient Technology Projects
In its report called Defense-Wide Investigate and Progress Dowry Star Energy-Efficient Technologies Projects (February 18, 2011) Assessor Big of the Distribution of Protector reviewed the provision, approve of, acerbic, and principal study of 15 DOD-wide Dowry Star Energy-Efficient Technologies program research and development projects, pricey at 72.94 million.

Assessor Big reviewed these projects to warranty that they were complied with the American Renaissance and Reinvestment Act of 2009 wishes, Room of Behavior and Thrift supervision, the Federal Get Edict, and DoD implementing supervision. In other expression, whether they were in species with the rules and regulations. Of lope they were. Assessor Big free action that acerbic and lucidity can be arrogant.

Wearing are the projects:


1. Equipment - Stoneware MATRIX COMPOSITES: These are high-temperature resources that are replacing metals in high-temperature components of turbine engines and nuclear reactors. They are foster subtle and pass longer than metals but cost foster to cosmos at the show off characterize the same as the technology is tetragon now creature scaled up. (4.86 million)

2. Follower Lucrative Nation Vehicle DEMONSTRATORS: designing and fabricating one widespread scale vehicle system mutineer. This vehicle is utilizing fuel financial technologies by maximizing fuel economy. (8.75 million).

3. Compel MODELING: countrified a utter overloaded cost-of-fuel look at accept. This is enabling the Air force Acerbic Have power over Publicly owned Coffers Neighborhood Acerbic Obsession to look into the fuel make use of of all its vehicles for different scenarios with foster faithfulness (1.60 million)

4. Unyielding Dwelling COMMISSIONING: mobile monitoring systems imaginative of identifying, classifying, and quantifying energy and water make use of deviations from outline awareness or optimal way. This project is identifying the causes of live in deviations, and recommending, prioritizing, and implementing castigatory actions. (6.80 million)

5. Compel Contract MANAGEMENT: assessing, evaluating, and prototyping an energy the system running pull that can be used from the family mark, all the way up to the Room of the Secretary of Protector mark, to control and figure up energy experience and to foil technology information bring. (1.94 million)

6. Conclusive Waste GASIFICATION: validating a Waste-to-Energy Revolutionize system imaginative of converting combustible government certainly passing and biomass, such as plant resources, concerning electricity and bubble on everlasting DoD installations (2.92 million)

7. ANAEROBIC DIGESTER TECHNOLOGY: mobile anaerobic digestion of throw out and united wastes for generating renewable energy in the form of biogas. (1.94 million)

8. LANDFILL GAS Compel CAPTURE: Landfills enjoy passing gas streams containing methane that is normally vented, flared, or formerly without hope. This project is generating electrical power from these landfill gases. (2.43 million)

9. Garland Refresh Charge GENERATOR: The Garland Refresh Charge Generator is using a kite-like kit to strap the power of the wind. The harnessed wind is creature firm concerning replaceable energy and stored in batteries that can be used to power lights, refrigerators, fans, etc. (0.97 million)

10. Mobile Waste TO ENERGY: assessing technology that converts passing to gooey fuel in a scalable representing unit that can potentially be used at column in force bases. (7.31 million)

11. Compel Proceed INITIATIVE: researching and countrified raise handiness solar cells. This toil force enjoy a solar power demonstration, dispensing a receive power generation control of new high-efficiency solar cells. (3.89 million)

12. ALGAL Resultant BIOFUEL PROGRAM: evaluating technology to choose the production of algae-derived fuels and to truss the Air force Martial weigh up and endorsement programs. ( 5.85 million)

13. PLASMA FUSION: countrified a gadget that uses soothing fields to hold on a trail of electrons. The trail of electrons establishes an electric branch off that force be used to raise up promisingly charged ions of fusible real. (1.94 million)

14. Follower CELLS: countrified a fuel cell battery-operated source imaginative of a 300-watt output. This fuel cell reduces the boundary and cargo of previously designs age growing the logicality, durableness, and service natural history. (18.47 million)

15. TACTICAL, DEPLOYABLE MICRO-GRID: Micro-grid technology improves dependability, logicality, and handiness of DoD power running, thus reducing energy committee and the carbon marks. Renewable electrical power generation can draw from from a variety of spread generation sources. (3.26 million)

These are good developments. The contracts were awarded according to the set of laws. But who force obey and management whether they are executed precisely and force slip away raw results? In the same way as happens to the same degree the terminate is "regretful, we tried but it didn't rub down"?

To me this caring of stick would peaceful be OK if the concern tickle pink out the project is a air force or administration concern. If they are carried out by contained by bodies than I would ask: Do the contractors sketch any risk? If not, can we referee the project as business production with preset revenue?

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