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4 April 2012

Engineers enlist weather model to optimize offshore wind plan

By running a sophisticated weather model on supercomputers, environmental engineers have defined optimal placement of a grid of four wind farms off the US East Coast. The model successfully balances production at times of peak demand and significantly reduces costly spikes and zero-power events.

Andrew Myers
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Towards a collaborative data infrastructure for science

EUDAT, the pan-European data project, recently held its first User Forum; topics covered ranged from the advantages of cross-disciplinary data services to the challenges of managing metadata.

Damien Lecarpentier
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Computer code for cleaner coal

"Coal gasification" is a cleaner way to extract energy from coal. But it's also complex—so complex that it's difficult to model and difficult to validate models of the process.

Linda Vu
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The Perpetual Ocean
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Open Software for Open Science

A new initiative called ScienceSoft hopes to assist scientific communities in their search for the software they need to carry out their research.

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