So far, solar energy has been viewed as only a minor contributor in the energy mixture of the US due to cost and intermittency constraints. However, recent drastic cost reductions in the production of photovoltaics (PV) pave the way for enabling this technology to become cost competitive with fossil fuel energy generation. We show that with the right incentives, cost competitiveness with grid p...

Previously, 5' deletion analysis revealed three important upstream regions within the regulatory region of the cAMP-induced, prespore gene SP60 of D. discoidium, each of which contains a CA-rich sequence element (CAE: consensus CACACAYYYCACACAAA/T). In this study, we have made site-directed mutations within these CAEs and examined their effect on reporter gene activity (luciferase or lacZ). Poi...

Large scale penetration of renewable energies such as wind and solar into the electric grid is complicated by their intermittency. Energy storage systems can mitigate these fluctuations by storing off-peak energy for use at peak-demand times. Compressed air energy storage (CAES) is one of the most promising storage technologies due to the large amount of energy that can be stored at an economic...

With the strong advancement of global carbon reduction strategy and rapid development renewable energy, compressed air energy storage (CAES) technology has received more attention for its key role in large-scale access. This paper summarizes coupling systems CAES wind, solar, biomass energies from perspective system topology, points out advantages limitations each system. It is shown that wind ...

In this work, we examine the potential advantages of co-locating wind and energy storage to increase transmission utilization and decrease transmission costs. Co-location of wind and storage decreases transmission requirements, but also decreases the economic value of energy storage compared to locating energy storage at the load. This represents a tradeoff which we examine to estimate the tran...

A robust and secure cryptosystem is an encrypting system that resists against all practical cryptanalysis methods such as statistical attacks, differential cryptanalysis and linear cryptanalysis. To prove the resistance against these attacks, the cryptosystem designer must carry out a list of robustness tests. Considering these constraints, we present in the current paper results of robustness ...

Advanced adiabatic compressed air energy storage (AA-CAES) is a promising form of CAES technology, which can realize multi-energy cascade and supply. Given the characteristics cooling, heating, power (CHP) load demand regionally integrated system (IES) overall need to control total carbon emission, this study first establishes AA-CAES model; second, based on analyzing AA-CAES, ladder-type tradi...

The expressive nature of the voice provides a powerful medium for communicating sonic ideas, motivating recent research on methods for query by vocalisation. Meanwhile, deep learning methods have demonstrated state-of-the-art results for matching vocal imitations to imitated sounds, yet little is known about how well learned features represent the perceptual similarity between vocalisations and...

A completely renewable baseload electricity generation system is proposed by combining wind energy, compressed air energy storage, and biomass gasification. This system can eliminate problems associated with wind intermittency and provide a source of electrical energy functionally equivalent to a large fossil or nuclear power plant. Compressed air energy storage (CAES) can be economically deplo...