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Matthew Traum

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Matthew J. Traum is an assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical and Energy Engineering at the University of North Texas where his research focuses on the synergy of energy and nano-technologies.

He completed a Ph.D. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and MIT's Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies (ISN) where he invented a nanotechnology-enabled technique for soldier thermal management.

Before coming to MIT, Traum was an engineer at Nextek Power Systems, Inc., and he also conducted research at the National Fuel Cell Research Center, part of the Advanced Power and Energy Program at the University of California, Irvine. Traum's personal web page can be accessed at http://www.mtraum.com.

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World’s Toughest Wind Turbines Power Antarctic Research Station

On the Utsteinen nunatak in the Dronning Maud Land of Eastern Antarctica, the planet’s last terrestrial frontier is being tamed by wind power. At the Princess Elisabeth Station , a Belgian-funded outpost manned by 20 scientists, research on global climate change has been ongoing since February 15. Primarily powered by eight 6 kW wind turbines, the facility itself aims to reduce the... More

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NASA Offering $1.65 Million for Research on Training Through Virtual Worlds

Since late 2007, I have touted the revolutionary training, product design, and test capabilities of virtual worlds like Second Life (SL). In January 2009, I implored the engineering community to stop thinking of SL as a game and embrace it as a product design tool. For my trouble, a reader with the handle JWM commented, “It’s a game, get back to work.” (See “... More

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ARPA-E Awarding High Risk/High Reward Grants for Energy Research

The Apollo-Program-scale federal investment in renewable energy technologies called for by so many in the energy profession has finally arrived. In late April, President Obama gave a speech to the National Academy of Sciences in which he announced massive new investments in energy. To manage these investments, a new division of the Department of Energy (DOE), called the Advanced Research... More

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"Big Green Lies" Exploits Green Backlash with Questionable Science

The Green backlash is here, and it WILL be televised. The public is being bombarded by messages, many of them in conflict, about how to be environmentally conscious, and we are simply zoning it all out; or worse, regressing to unsustainable habits. As Alex Williams of the New York Times reports in “ That Buzz in Your Ear May Be Green Noise “, we are overwhelmed with too much... More

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MacKay’s “Sustainable Energy – Without the Hot Air” Quantifies Technology Constraints

I have used “Green Obsession” to describe the ridiculous fascination the American public has with renewable energy and activities that are supposedly environmentally friendly. From its inception, this blog has maintained the opinion that no new energy technology, no matter how green, will ever be adopted on a meaningful scale unless it proves less expensive than competing... More
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