Wind Power Today: 1998 Wind Energy Program Highlights

The US Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy manages the Federal Wind Energy Program. The mission of the program is to help the US wind industry to complete the research, testing, and field verification needed to fully develop advanced wind technologies that will lead the world in cost-effectiveness and reliability. This publication, printed annually, provides a summary of significant achievements in wind energy made during the previous calendar year. Articles include wind energy in the Midwest, an Alaskan wind energy project, the US certification program, structural testing, and the federal program in review

Renewable Energy: An Overview

This fact sheet provides an introduction to renewable energy technologies: hydropower, bioenergy, geothermal energy, solar energy, wind energy, hydrogen, and ocean energy

Buildings for the 21st Century Newsletter, Fall 2000

This issue of Buildings for the 21st Century, a quarterly newsletter on the DOE building programs and technology, highlights the new high-performance visitor center at Zion National Park, Maryland's new Clean Energy Incentive Act, the Ohio State Weatherization Program, the Rebuild America Program and Native American communities joining forces, and Energy Star{reg_sign} clothes washers

Negotiation Training for Women in Government

This study surveyed women in government about negotiation; respondents said negotiation skills are necessary for career advancement yet most do not report being skilled negotiators. Negotiation training for women in government was developed to increase negotiating confidence and skill level. Government employees may advance more rapidly by negotiating for promotions, bonuses, and assignments. The pay and leadership gap for women in the work place can be attributed in part to women\u27s reluctance to negotiate for better pay and promotions. Locus of control and gender stereotypes feed into women\u27s reluctance to negotiate. The training addresses women as adult learners and whole people and encourages them to set goals and use negotiation in the broader context of achieving life goals

The Stalinist Political Culture of the Second Wave of the Russian Diaspora: A Case Study

The article was submitted on 13.05.2021.Статья посвящена жизни и деятельности Владимира Васильевича Позднякова в годы Второй мировой войны и начала холодной войны. Подполковник Красной армии, арестованный во время Большого террора, Поздняков попал в плен на Восточном фронте в октябре 1941 г. Он сотрудничал с немцами: сначала занимал пост начальника лагерной полиции в 1942 г., потом стал пропагандистом системы лагерей для военнопленных и, наконец, служил высокопоставленным офицером под командованием генерала А. А. Власова. После войны он избежал репатриации в СССР и работал агентом разведки в организации «Гелена» и ЦРУ, а также принимал участие в антикоммунистических организациях в Западной Германии. Поздняков также был активным историком власовского движения в послевоенные годы. Его карьера дает возможность проследить действия одного человека в период войны, оккупации и холодной войны. На основе источников можно утверждать, что Поздняков был человеком амбициозным, подозрительным и догматичным – все качества, которые отражали его прошлое в элитах сталинской системы 1930‑х гг. Сосредоточив внимание на политической культуре 1930‑х гг., можно осмыслить действия Позднякова в данный период: его готовность к коллаборации с нацистами, а затем и с западными завоевателями Германии, его постоянные склоки в кругах коллаборационистов и послевоенной русской диаспоры, а также его усилия обелить историю власовского движения в послевоенные годы. Пример Позднякова предлагает новый подход к изучению политической культуры второй волны русской эмиграции. Из-за исторического контекста формирования второй волны – пленение на Восточном фронте, жизнь и иногда коллаборация при нацистской оккупации, бегство от репатриации – у ее членов не было другого источника общественной идентичности, кроме демонстрации преданности полувымышленной Русской освободительной армии Власова.This article examines the career of Vladimir Vasil’evich Pozdniakov during the Second World War and the early Cold War. A lieutenant colonel in the Red Army who was arrested during the Great Terror, Pozdniakov was captured on the Eastern front in October 1941. He collaborated with the Germans, first serving as the head of camp police in 1942, then becoming a propagandist in the system of POW camps, and finally serving as a high-ranking officer in the short-lived Russian army under General A. A. Vlasov. He escaped repatriation to the USSR after the war and worked as an intelligence agent in the Gehlen Organization and the CIA while also taking part in anti-communist groups in West Germany. Pozdniakov also acted as an amateur historian of the Vlasov movement. Pozdniakov’s career provides a window on the actions of one individual across the upheavals of war, occupation, and Cold War. Pozdniakov’s actions were shaped by the political culture of the Stalinist 1930s. Like other members of the Soviet party-state and military elite, Pozdniakov was opportunistic, suspicious, and dogmatic – all qualities that were crucial for advancement and mere survival in the Stalinist 1930s. The political culture of the 1930s helps to explain his activities during a time of unprecedented chaos and violence: his willingness to collaborate diligently with the Nazis and then with Germany’s Western conquerors, his constant battles within circles of collaborators and the Russian diaspora, and his hagiographic writing of the history of the Vlasov movement while in postwar exile. Pozdnyakov’s example suggests a new approach to the study of the political culture of the second wave of Russian emigration. Due to the historical context of the formation of the second wave – captivity on the Eastern Front, life and sometimes collaboration during the Nazi occupation and flight from repatriation – its members had no other source of public identity other than the continuing devotion to Vlasov’s semi-fictional Russian liberation army

Observations on cavitation bubble collapse

Experimental observations are made on collapsing cavitation bubbles. Bubbles generated by two different methods are studied. The first method consists of bubble generation and collapse by flow over a submerged body. This work is done in the High-Speed Water Tunnel of the Hydrodynamics Laboratory. Existing photographic equipment and experimental techniques are employed. The second method consists of bubble generation and collapse by variation of the hydrostatic pressure. Much improved time and space resolution of the collapse is obtained in the latter case by design and construction of a high-speed photographic system. Bubble collapse pictures are taken at 105 frames per sec and an effective exposure time of 5 x 10-8 sec. A magnification of eight diameters from object to image is attained. This equipment reveals new details of cavitation bubble collapse. Numerical solutions of the spherical bubble collapse equations are compared with experimental results. A consistently longer collapse time is observed in all cases. Observed bubble asymmetries are shown to be caused by pressure gradients. A large degree of coupling is shown to exist between the radial motion and the translational motion of the bubble centroid. Bubble collapse is observed to be much less stable than bubble growth.</p