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Everything Under the Sun: A Guide to Siting Solar in the Lone Star State
Encouraging energy production using renewable resources is a widely recognized public policy that is promoted by both the federal and state governments in the U.S., and with recent technological advances, renewable-electricity generation is rapidly becoming economically viable. The Energy Information Administration (EIA) forecasts that electricity production from all renewable sources will increase 72% between 2013 and 2040, with the renewable share of total U.S. electricity generation growing from 13% to 18%.1 The future of solar power is especially bright with a projected growth rate of 6.8% per year between 2013 and 2040. If this projection holds true, solar power will far outpace the growth of other renewables. Combined with the Investment Tax Credit (ITC) introduced in 2006, rapid improvements in photovoltaic (PV) solar panel efficiency and dramatic reductions in PV costs are driving a veritable solar boom in the U.S. In fact, the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) reports a 73% decrease in the cost of installing solar since the implementation of the ITC, and anticipates an additional 20,000 Megawatts (MW) of solar generation capacity will come online in the next two years, doubling current U.S. solar capacity. Likewise, the EIA projects that solar power will account for nearly half of the total 109,000MW of renewable-generation-capacity that is expected to be added to the U.S. electricity grid by 2040.The Kay Bailey Hutchison Center for Energy, Law, and Busines
Plato's Fire and the Neutrino Mass Matrix
With the accumulation of many years of solar and atmospheric neutrino
oscillation data, the approximate form of the 3 X 3 neutrino mixing matrix is
now known. The theoretical challenge is to understand where this mixing matrix
comes from. Recently, a remarkable fact was discovered that for a specific
pattern of the neutrino mass matrix at a high scale, any flavor-changing
radiative correction will automatically lead to the desired mixing matrix. It
was also discovered that the required specific pattern at the high scale can be
maintained by the non-Abelian discrete symmetry A_4 which is also the symmetry
group of the regular tetrahedron, one of five perfect geometric solids known to
Plato who associated it with the element ``fire''. I discuss this recent
development and add to it a new and very simple mechanism for the
implementation of the flavor-changing radiative correction.Comment: 12 pages, to appear as a Brief Review in MPL
FUTURE STRUCTURE OF THE TEXAS CATTLE FEEDING INDUSTRY AS PROJECTED BY TRANSITION PROBABILITIES UTILIZING A CONVEX PROGRAM
Livestock Production/Industries,
Shuttle remote manipulator system mission preparation and operations
The preflight planning, analysis, procedures development, and operations support for the Space Transportation System payload deployment and retrieval missions utilizing the Shuttle Remote Manipulator System are summarized. Analysis of the normal operational loads and failure induced loads and motion are factored into all procedures. Both the astronaut flight crews and the Mission Control Center flight control teams receive considerable training for standard and mission specific operations. The real time flight control team activities are described
Supersymmetric U(1) Gauge Realization of the Dark Scalar Doublet Model of Radiative Neutrino Mass
Adding a second scalar doublet (eta^+,eta^0) and three neutral singlet
fermions N_{1,2,3} to the Standard Model of particle interactions with a new
Z_2 symmetry, it has been shown that Re(eta^0) or Im(eta^0) is a good
dark-matter candidate and seesaw neutrino masses are generated radiatively. A
supersymmetric U(1) gauge extension of this new idea is proposed, which
enforces the usual R parity of the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model, and
allows this new Z_2 symmetry to emerge as a discrete remnant.Comment: 8 pages, 3 figure
Quark Mass Matrices in the A_4 Model
If the standard model of quark interactions is supplemented by a discrete A_4
symmetry (which may be relevant for the lepton sector), the spontaneous
breaking of the electroweak gauge symmetry allows arbitrary quark masses, but
all mixing angles are predicted to be zero. A pattern of the explicit breaking
of A_4 is proposed, which results in a realistic charged-current mixing matrix.Comment: 6 pages, no figur
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