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SPIRE Visualization System Finds Data Fast

SPIRE is a revolutionary software-based solution to a problem facing professional and casual knowledge workers alike — information overload. It enables users to make sense of the mountains of text-based digital information bombarding them daily from media sources, on-line services, and the World Wide Web.

DD&D Conference

This is a follow up to the May 12 UFTO Note on Nuclear Decommissioning. The detailed agenda for the Conference at Argonne is now available. The first page is shown below. I have an electronic copy of the whole document that I can forward on request.

Reliability TF, 3rd Meeting Notice, June 3

The purpose of the Electric System Reliability Task Force is to provide advice and recommendations to the Secretary of Energy Advisory Board regarding the critical institutional, technical, and policy issues that need to be addressed in order to maintain the reliability of the nation’s bulk electric system.

Electrochemical Ozone Generator

The usual method of producing ozone is by corona discharge in air. It requires auxiliary equipment to precondition the air (cooling to – 60 degrees C), it produces NOx and particulates, and it is limited to delivery of ozone at 2% concentration and atmospheric pressure.