E-Mail
What if aircraft carriers could rely on the most abundant of local resources seawater to fuel the planes on board?
Thanks to seawater-to-fuel technology that has been in development for several years, scientists are able to use the onboard nuclear reactor and harness the carbon dioxide and hydrogen from seawater to create a liquid fuel that can power a jet engine. The technology would allow aircraft carriers to remain in continuous operation and avoid relying on tanker ships to replenish their fuel.
However, designing catalysts that can effectively create jet fuel from these common compounds is a difficult and costly process.
UNT Facilities team embodied their core values of service, excellence and integrity all week. The
Grounds crew handled snow and ice removal from the onset, keeping walkways and streets safe, while helping mitigate further structural damage from the extreme winter conditions.
Maintenance teams for campus and auxiliary facilities worked nonstop throughout the crisis. Some facilities team members even camped out in their offices to ensure around-the-clock support, while others braved hazardous roads in the middle of the night to respond to emergencies. Team leaders built and maintained 24/7 shifts while key team members juggled all the data and damage reports in a time when communications capabilities were spotty, at best, with limited to no internet access and inconsistent cellular service throughout the area.
Dubai: A lesson in sustainability – that’s what Germany is offering the world come October. Though its edutaining programme at Expo 2020 Dubai, the country – well known for its energy revolution, ‘Energiewende’, and recycling incentives – will showcase ideas for a cleaner, greener world.
The county pavilion, titled ‘Campus Germany’, is focused on imparting knowledge and doing so in a didactic way.
How does it work?
When you enter the German pavilion, you must enroll in a curriculum that’ll take you through an induction, classes and a graduation. These are interactive sessions and exhibitions. Can you graduate from the German Pavilion?
University of New Orleans doctoral student Naw Safrin Sattar, who is specializing in high performance computing, is one of 15 recipients of the 2021 Parallel Computing Summer Research Internship.
The internship with Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico is an intense 10-week program aimed at providing students with a solid foundation in modern high performance computing topics integrated with research on real problems encountered in large-scale scientific codes.
“It is a great opportunity to work on real-life computational problems and implement solutions with guidance from mentors with scientific and computational expertise,” Sattar said. “This guidance and the expertise will be very helpful in my Ph.D. dissertation works and my future career. I am looking forward to a great summer ahead.”