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Temecula parish to mark 100 years
Temecula's St. Catherine of Alexandria Catholic Church is about to mark 100 years as a parish, a milestone that has congregants recalling the church's venerable history and preparing to celebrate the centennial anniversary in a big way.
The church was established in 1910 as a mission-parish without an actual chapel to call its own; it has since grown to become a thriving faith community situated on 8 acres, boasting nearly 5,000 parishioners, several buildings, and many ministries helping those in need.
"We've been here for 100 years ---- that's a lot of history," said 18-year parishioner Jill Gonzales, who is coordinating the church's three-day birthday party. Slated for mid-November, the fete will include a wine tasting gala, fireworks and a minicarnival.
"This is an exciting time," she said. "The church has helped a lot of people over the years."
To mark the anniversary, church leaders have tapped local historian Elaine Eshom to create a heritage booklet chronicling the church's roots and evolution.
Eshom is pulling from a variety of sources, including parishioners' photo albums, local Indian reservations' archives, newspaper clippings, museum documentation and diocesan publications.
In the beginning, as the West Coast became more populated in the late 1800s and early 1900s, the need for a Catholic Church in Temecula became pressing, Eshom said. Meeting in homes or at area missions was not sufficient as the population of Catholics grew in Temecula Valley, she said.
"Temecula may have had 200 to 300 people at this time, in 1910, and for them to have enough people to build and support a church, that is amazing," she said, adding that probably 50 percent of the town belonged to the Catholic branch of Christianity, thanks to the area's high percentage of Latino and Native American residents, who were traditionally Catholic during those days.
In 1917, St. Catherine's original chapel was built in Old Town. While not the first church in Temecula, it was the first building constructed specifically as a place of worship, Eshom said.
Throughout most of the 1900s, it served as home base for the parish, a landmark on Sixth and Front streets. But in the 1970s, as the early traces of Southwest County's population boom began to take hold, the congregation started to outgrow its chapel.
"We knew the way people were moving into the area that we needed more space," said longtime Temecula resident Joe Cherpin, 84, a retired winemaker who has attended St. Catherine's for 35 years.
In 1989, the church purchased nearly 9 acres on C Street, and with big plans, its leaders sold the original chapel to the Old Town Temecula Museum for a token $1 and headed to the new property.
The chapel was moved to Sam Hicks Monument Park, refurbished, and remains a popular venue for weddings and other events.
As for St. Catherine's, it was facing a major time of flux. After the move, the congregation met under a tent for a few months while infrastructure needs were worked out. It was an interesting time, said the Rev. Anthony DiLeo, pastor emeritus, who led the church from 1987 to 1999.
"With the winds blowing the tent during 5 o'clock Mass (on Saturday evenings), it felt like it was going to take us with it," DiLeo said.
Despite a few growing pains, the congregation at that time came through in a huge way with regard to the church's capital needs, he said.
"We spent about $14 million on the buildings, and everything was paid for by the time they were completed," he said, referring to the meeting hall, classrooms, offices and sanctuary built in the 1990s. "They were very generous. I am proud of that, that they saw the need and responded."
Today, the church's ministries include a food bank, homeless and military outreach and support, care for the sick and elderly, and donations directed to programs that aid the poor across the globe.
"(The church) walks the walk," Gonzales said. "I've seen them pay people's rent."
As the congregation gears up for the celebration, members said they hope a large crowd comes out ---- and not just Catholics.
"We want to welcome the entire community," said the Rev. Manuel Cardoza, St. Catherine's associate pastor. "It will be a great, grand event, celebrating 100 years of proclaiming the Gospel of Jesus Christ."
DiLeo said that a big theme in the Catholic faith is celebration, and that the party is no exception.
"It's a joyous occasion," he said. "The heritage of the Catholic Church is we like to celebrate. We even talk about our services being a celebration. Everything we do is basically a celebration."
100th anniversary at St. Catherine of Alexandria Catholic Church
Fireworks and wine-tasting gala
When: 6:30 p.m. Nov. 19
Where: St. Catherine's Catholic Church, 41875 C St.
Cost: $35 per person
Info: stcatherineofalexandria.net or 951-676-4403
Barbecue and minicarnival
When: 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Nov. 20; 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Nov. 21
Cost: Entry is free; prices for food and rides vary


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They told me that I had 30 days to look over the materials along
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That agent told me that they needed my checking account number on file so if I decided to keep the packet of materials and use them that they would debit my account 119.90 for an annual membership fee.
well on December 6,2004 my checking account was debited 119.90
along with 3.95 for shipping and handling for the packet and debited again 3.95 for the call one packet that I had not even recieved.
Guess what , I never recieved the Gas vouchers, the UPS truck never delivered the packet. I finally recieved the packet in the mail after 30 days had passed by.
I've called them many times which I have documented each time and asked for a refund. They refuse to refund my money. They even went as far as to send me an authorization form for me to fill out for a refund. I did and sent it back in and still have
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As of today 7/2005 I have not recieved my money and they ripped me off right at christmas time and made my account overdraft when I had 6 children to buy for at christmas.
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Here�s a word you don�t want to haul out too often: masterpiece. David O. Russell�s American Hustle (R � language, sexuality, violence) is a familiar meal of story tropes and characters (it�s based on a true story, for crying out loud) made new and invigorating by its chef�s uncompromising vision, and his painstaking attention to every last detail. Russell�s past successes � from Three Kings, Silver Linings Playbook and The Fighter to the brash misfire I (Heart) Huckabees � have all benefited from this same mix of storytelling craft and artistic confidence. But Hustle is the work of a director who figured something out between his last film and this one. Russell has come into his own, and our theaters are the richer for it.
American Hustle is a retelling of the real-life Abscam political scandal of the late 1970s, in which a clutch of U.S. congressmen were nabbed in an FBI sting of faux Arab investors and cash-stuffed briefcases. Here, the operation is the love child of two parents: Richie DiMaso (Bradley Cooper), a hyper-ambitious FBI agent who lives with his mother; and Irving Rosenfeld (Christian Bale), a professional con artist whose very hair is a testament to elaborate dishonesty. Irving is working with the FBI to avoid prison time on some low-level scams, but his presence inspires Richie to make the most of Irving�s innate skills and go for the big fish � the politicians and mobsters whose arrests will guarantee headlines and advancement.
No one is comfortable with their life in Hustle � not Irving, who�s married to one woman but in love with another; nor Richie, who has a fianc�e of his own but can�t take his eyes off Sydney (Amy Adams), Irving�s longtime mistress with a pet English accent that she likes to take for long walks. Sydney also goes by Evelyn, an identity she uses as an escape hatch for troubled times � like, for instance, when she�s dragooned into helping Irving with his FBI work. Then there�s Irving�s wife Rosalyn (Jennifer Lawrence), a loose cannon who�s not as smart as she thinks she is, and who fairly begs to be taken seriously.
Sydney, Irving and Richie target Carmine Polito (Jeremy Renner), the mayor of Camden, NJ, as their initial mark and unwitting accomplice in their scheme to move higher up the political food chain. Carmine is a fascinating character in a movie that�s full of them: A community leader who gets on the bribe train not out of any particular sense of greed, but from a pragmatic acceptance that it�s the fastest way to make things happen in a town in need of change. During his speech at a celebratory fundraiser, Carmine�s sincerity and passion for his cause are laid bare � and made all the more quietly tragic by the fact that we know he�s going down.
It was during Carmine�s speech that I began to note the great care Russell was taking with each member of this large ensemble cast: Although the film begins and ends with Irving, American Hustle creates a sense that each character is the star of their own movie, and that we�re watching all of those movies at once. Robert Altman mastered that trick, as did Paul Thomas Anderson (whose Boogie Nights feels like a second cousin to this film). It�s a rare talent, and Russell has cracked the code.
Like any �70s extravaganza, the film lets its wardrobe artists run wild � the wide collars, plunging necklines and over-the-top hairstyles are all good for a leer and a laugh. American Hustle lets us enjoy these jokes, and more, without subjecting its characters to ridicule. The soundtrack is a time machine, too, while also serving as a kind of solid-fuel booster: a K-Tel accelerant that adds weight to already significant moments while greasing the track to keep the cars running smoothly. The film takes its corners at full speed, giving the viewer the impression of being taken on a joyride with a supremely capable driver at the wheel. Which isn�t far from the truth.
Russell has stacked the acting deck by populating his film with some of the most interesting stars working today. These five performers create the illusion of our having known their characters well before they first show up on screen; we�re not meeting them so much as being dropped into their lives, already in progress. Bale�s portrayal is predictably bold � even with Irving�s middle-aged paunch, we can see why Sydney and Rosalyn are both so drawn to him � but I was really impressed by Lawrence�s live-wire tempestuousness, and Cooper�s manic desperation. His Richie craves a sexier, more vibrant life than helping his mom clean the filter on their aquarium. Richie can�t resist the siren call of an elaborate con or the allure of Sydney�s d�colletage and long legs; eventually even manhandling his FBI supervisor (Louis C.K.) becomes internally consistent � a logical leap from an illogical man.
As a caper movie without an alpha male, American Hustle is a tone poem to the banality of real life � even when that reality includes some exciting stuff. It�s a serious comedy, an exploration of duplicity and deception as survival tools, and a master class in filmmaking. Mostly, it�s just a blast to watch. It�s the best film I�ve seen this year � or last year, for that matter.
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First National Bank Of Marin (INC) some how got a hold of my employment number and got my check direct deposit to their company. Which I don't even have. They are doing illegal transaction and should be stopped. Las Vegas Nevada Internet
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According to her rep, Tequila "has agreed to go into treatment ... at Palm Partners in Florida. ...That is all the info we want to give at this time."
Her decision to seek help comes on the heels of a brain aneurysm that pals say almost killed her. Responding to a 911 call from her roommate, paramedics discovered she had suffered an aneurysm. The roommate claimed Tequila had overdosed on sleeping pills. (It isn't clear, however, whether the aneurysm was related to the drugs Tequila ingested or if it was a separate, nearly simultaneous incident.)
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By Victor Gonzalez, notifight.com
According to trainer/manager Chepo Reynoso, the next opponent for WBC 154-pound champion Saul "Canelo" Alvarez (40-0-1, 29KOs) will be revealed on Monday by Golden Boy Promotions President Oscar De La Hoya. Chepo says De La Hoya will reveal the name of Canelo's opponent on his offical Twitter page. Canelo returns on a Showtime televised card on September 15th at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.
"This past Friday, we spoke to Eric Gomez, matchmaker for Golden Boy. We believe that Oscar de la Hoya will use his Twitter to make [the opponent] known. We will start the promotional tour on Tuesday, the 24th of this month in Los Angeles. We'll then go to New York, Miami and Texas," Chepo said to BoxingScene.com/NotiFight.com.
Chepo says that on Wednesday he will travel to Los Angeles to begin the formal training with Alvarez.
"The people of Golden Boy got a particular gym in Santa Monica, which is really close to where we will be living. For the opponent, we will ask for about six sparring partners, and change them as we work."
Despite the comments of Richardo Mayorga, who claims to be traveling to the United States on Tuesday to sign a contract to face Canelo, sources close to the Mexican champion are denying Mayorga's claims.
Strong rumors are circulating that James Kirkland was possibly provided with a higher offer to accept the fight with Canelo, but the information has not been confirmed, or denied, by the parties involved. Kirkland previously agreed to face Canelo, but withdrew less than 24 hours later. He initially claimed to be suffering from a shoulder injury. Soon after, Kirkland's adviser made a demand for a much higher purse.
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PASADENA, Calif.—A new and improved way to measure light has been unveiled by physicists at the California Institute of Technology and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The technology exploits the strange but predictable characteristics of superconductivity, and has a number of properties that should lead to uses in a variety of fields, from medicine to astrophysics.
Reporting in the October 23 issue of Nature, Caltech physicist Jonas Zmuidzinas and his JPL colleagues outline the specifications of their superconducting detector. The device is cleverly designed to sidestep certain limitations imposed by nature to allow for very subtle and precise measurements of electromagnetic radiation, which includes visible light, radio signals, X-rays, and gamma rays, as well as infrared and ultraviolet frequencies.
At the heart of the detector is a strip of material that is cooled to such a low temperature that electrical current flows unimpeded—in other words, a superconductor. Scientists have known for some time that superconductors function as they do because of electrons in the material being linked together as "Cooper pairs" with a binding energy just right to allow current to flow with no resistance. If the material is heated above a certain temperature, the Cooper pairs are torn apart by thermal fluctuations, and the result is electrical resistance.
Zmuidzinas and his colleagues have designed their device to register the slight changes that occur when an incoming photon—the basic unit of electromagnetic radiation—interacts with the material and affects the Cooper pairs. The device can be made sensitive enough to detect individual photons, as well as their wavelengths (or color).
However, a steady current run through the superconducting material is not useful for measuring light, so the researchers have also figured out a way to measure the slight changes in the superconductor's properties caused by the breaking of Cooper pairs. By applying a high-frequency microwave field of about 10 gigahertz, a slight lag in the response due to the Cooper pairs can be measured. In fact, the individual frequencies of the photons can be measured very accurately with this method, which should provide a significant benefit to astrophysicists, as well as researchers in a number of other fields, Zmuidzinas says.
"In astrophysics, this will give you lots more information from every photon you detect," he explains. "There are single-pixel detectors in existence that have similar sensitivity, but our new detector allows for much bigger arrays, potentially with thousands of pixels."
Such detectors could provide a very accurate means of measuring the fine details of the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB). The CMB is the relic of the intense light that filled the early universe, detectable today as an almost uniform glow of microwave radiation coming from all directions.
Measurements of the CMB are of tremendous interest in cosmology today because of extremely faint variations in the intensity of the radiation that form an intricate pattern over the entire sky. These patterns provide a unique image of the universe as it existed just 300 thousand years after the Big Bang, long before the first galaxies or stars formed. The intensity variations are so faint, however, that it has required decades of effort to develop detectors capable of mapping them.
It was not until 1992 that the first hints of the patterns imprinted in the CMB by structure in the early universe were detected by the COBE satellite. In 2000, using new detectors developed at Caltech and JPL, the BOOMERANG experiment led by Caltech physicist Andrew Lange produced the first resolved images of the these patterns. Other experiments, most notably the Cosmic Background Imager of Caltech astronomer Tony Readhead, have confirmed and extended these results to even higher resolution. The images obtained by these experiments have largely convinced the cosmology research community that the universe is geometrically flat and that the theory of rapid inflation proposed by MIT physicist Alan Guth is a reality.
Further progress will help provide even more detailed images of the CMB—ideally, so detailed that individual fluctuations could be matched to primordial galaxies—as well as other information, including empirical evidence to determine whether the CMB is polarized. The new detector invented by Zmuidzinas and Henry G. LeDuc, a co-author of the paper, could be the breakthrough needed for the new generation of technology to study the CMB.
In addition, the new superconducting detector could be used to scan the universe for dark matter, and in X-ray astronomy for better analysis of black holes and other highly energetic phenomena, in medical scanning, in environmental science, and even in archaeology.
Other Caltech faculty are beginning to investigate these additional applications for the new detector. Assistant professor of physics Sunil Golwala is targeting dark-matter detection, while associate professor of physics and astronomy Fiona Harrison is pursuing X-ray astronomy applications.
The lead author of the paper is Peter Day, who earned his doctorate at Caltech under the direction of condensed-matter physicist David Goodstein and is now a researcher at JPL. In addition to LeDuc, also a researcher at JPL and leader of the JPL superconducting device group, the other authors are Ben Mazin and Anastasios Vayonakis, both Caltech graduate students working in Zmuidzinas's lab.
The work has been supported in part by NASA's Aerospace Technology Enterprise, the JPL Director's Research and Development Fund, the Caltech President's Fund, and Caltech trustee Alex Lidow.
PASADENA, Calif. - Meet Sarah Horst, throwback. The planetary science major, a senior at the California Institute of Technology, spent six months engaged in a bit of old-time telescope observing. The work led to some breakthrough research about Saturn's moon Titan, and indirectly led to funding for a new telescope at Caltech's Palomar Observatory.
Horst, 21, was looking for a part-time job in the summer of her sophomore year, and was hired by Mike Brown, an associate professor of planetary astronomy. Brown and graduate student Antonin Bouchez knew there had been previous evidence of "weather" on Titan in the form of clouds. But that evidence was elusive. "Someone would look one year and think they saw a cloud, then look the next year and not see a cloud," explains Brown. "What we were after was a way to look at Titan, night after night after night."
The problem, of course, is that all of the large telescopes like Keck are incredibly busy, booked by astronomers from around the world who use the precious time for their own line of research. So Brown and Bouchez knew that obtaining large amounts of time for a single project like this was not going to happen.
The solution: Use an old teaching telescope--the hoary 14-inch Celestron telescope located on top of Caltech's Robinson Lab--to do cutting edge science that couldn't be done at the largest telescopes in the world, in Hawaii.
Though the power of the Robinson telescope is weak, and light pollution from Pasadena strong, which prevents imaging the actual clouds, the light reflecting from clouds could be imaged (the more clouds, the more light that's reflected). All that was needed was someone who could come night after night and take multiple images.
Enter Horst, the self-described "lowly undergraduate." For months, Horst spent her evenings in Robinson. "I did the setup, which involved a wheel that contained four light filters," she explains. Each filter would capture a different wavelength of light. Software switched the filters; all she had to do, says Horst, was to orientate and focus the telescope.
Now, modern-day astronomers have it relatively easy when using their telescope time. Sure they're up all night, but they sit on a comfortable chair in a warm room, hot coffee close at hand, and do their observing through a computer monitor that's connected to a telescope.
Not Horst. She did it the old way, in discomfort. "A lot of times in December or January I'd go in late at night, and it would be freezing," says Horst, who runs the 800-meter for the Caltech track team. "I'd wrap myself up in blankets." Horst spent hours in the dark, since the old dome itself had to be dark. "I couldn't even study," she says, "although sometimes I tried to read by the light of the moon."
A software program written by Bouchez plotted the light intensity from each image on a graph. When a particular image looked promising, Bouchez contacted Brown. As a frequent user of the Keck Observatory, which is powerful enough to take an image of the actual clouds, Brown was able to call colleagues who were using the Keck that night and quickly convince them that something exciting was going on. "It only took about ten minutes to get a quick image of Titan," says Brown. "The funny part was having to explain to them that we knew there were clouds because we had seen the evidence in our 14-inch telescope in the middle of the L.A. basin."
The result was "Direct Detection of Variable Tropospheric Clouds Near Titan's South Pole," which appeared in the December 19 journal Nature. It included this acknowledgement: "We thank . . . S. Horst for many nights of monitoring Titan in the cold."
The paper has helped Brown obtain the funding to build a new 24-inch custom-built telescope. It will be placed in its own building atop Palomar Mountain, on the grounds of Caltech's existing observatory. It's also roboticized; Brown will control the scope from Pasadena via a computer program he has written.
He'll use it for further observation of Titan and for other imaging, as well, such as fast-moving comets. "Most astronomy is big," notes Brown; "big scopes looking at big, unchanging things, like galaxies. I like to look at changing things, which led to this telescope."
What really made this project unique, though, according to Brown, is the Robinson scope. "Sarah was able to do something with this little telescope in Pasadena that no one in the world, on any of their larger professional telescopes on high, dark mountaintops, had been able to do," he says. "Sometimes a good idea and stubbornness are better than the largest telescope in town."
For Horst, while the work wasn't intellectually challenging--"a trained monkey could have done it," she says with a laugh--it was, nonetheless, "a cool project. Everything here is so theoretical and tedious, and so classroom orientated. So in that way it was a nice experience and reminded me what real science was about."
The telescope is NASA's newest triumph in the ongoing quest to understand the universe by looking at it in the pristine view of outer space, above the atmosphere and moisture. Following the Hubble Space Telescope, the Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory, and the Chandra X-Ray Observatory, SIRTF is the fourth and final mission of NASA's Great Observatories Program--though by no means the last time NASA intends to launch an observatory into space.
Caltech's part in the program is the hosting of the center where observations will be chosen, the satellite's observations scheduled and programmed, and the scientific data processed and sent on to the scientists involved. In all, about 100 people are employed by the center, which has close ties with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the Infrared Processing Analysis Center (IPAC) next door.
The science center is located in an office building on the south side of the Caltech campus in Pasadena, and the third-floor control room affords the staff a rather nice view of a sunny Southern California boulevard with palm trees and the San Gabriel mountains.
Now trailing Earth in a solar orbit slightly larger than Earth's annual orbit around the sun-- and thus slightly slower--the telescope will soon begin returning images of the infrared sky as it has never been seen before. There are much larger infrared telescopes on the ground, but unlike SIRTF, they are hampered by water vapor and atmospheric distortions. On the other hand, there have been infrared instruments in space, but none as big as SIRTF.
With such an instrument, astrophysicists hope to gain new insights about star formation, the center of galaxies, objects now so far away that they can only be imaged in the infrared, brown dwarfs so cool that they do not emit visible light, and perhaps even the extremely dim large bodies that may exist hitherto undetected at the fringes of our own solar system. Also, the telescope will be able to see light coming through many of the gas and dust clouds that are impenetrable to regular visible light.
Tom Soifer, the Caltech physics professor who has directed the center since its inception in 1997, admits he was nervous watching SIRTF being launched from Cape Canaveral in late August, but says he is pleased with the way things have gone so far.
In fact, the infrared telescope has already returned its first picture, an image of a star field. In SIRTF's case, the image was part of the "aliveness test" to demonstrate that the three scientific instruments on board all successfully survived the launch and subsequent deployment in solar orbit.
Soifer points out that the image (available at the Web site listed at the bottom of the page) was taken just a week after the telescope was launched. And even though the first image is a star field with no particular scientific interest, the bright, red stars give an inkling of the visual displays that will be made available to the public during SIRTF's five-year mission. In fact, subsequent images will be even better, because SIRTF's telescope wasn't even fully cooled or in focus when the "aliveness" image was snapped.
The imagery of SIRTF should be of ongoing interest to the public, because the remarkable images returned over the last 13 years by the Hubble Space Telescope have been quite popular. Also, the SIRTF operations will have more than a passing resemblance to those of Hubble, Soifer explains.
"SIRTF is very similar to the Hubble operation," he says. "Any astronomer in the world can get observing time if their proposal is selected, and you get grant money to fund your research if you work in the United States.
"Education and public outreach are important aspects of the science center, and we're working closely with JPL on public affairs activities."
Like the Hubble Space Telescope, SIRTF will look at a huge variety of objects, both in our own solar system and far beyond. In addition to the aforementioned items of interest, SIRTF will also look at giant molecular clouds, some of which contain organic molecules, and will look for signatures of planet formation around other stars.
Unlike the Hubble, however, SIRTF will have a more defined mission--or at least a more defined lifespan. The instruments must be cooled to an extremely low temperature with on-board cryogenic liquid, and this means that the bulk of the observations will end when the liquid coolant runs out. Minimizing heat and thereby conserving coolant is the reason for the unique orbit, which keeps the telescope well away from Earth, and conservation of the refrigerant is also the reason for the meticulous computer-aided planning that goes into all operations. The less the telescope has to move and switch between its three main instruments, the longer the coolant will last.
Soifer expects the mission to last for about five years. There's a chance that a few very limited observations could still be done for an additional four years, but SIRTF definitely comprises a beginning, a middle, and an end.
After that, SIRTF will be some 80 to 90 million miles away from Earth, and the distance will continue to increase. After about 60 years, Earth will catch up with SIRTF, but there would hardly be an advantage in rejuvenating the telescope at that point.
"It wouldn't be worth it," Soifer says. "The technologies are all advancing, so it would be better to go with that generation's technology. So there's a very clear end.
"In fact, the end will be approximately when I get to retirement age," he adds, smiling. "I'm not really sure how I feel about that."
First there was liquid metal, that wondrous substance from Bill Johnson's materials science lab at Caltech that is now used for golf clubs and tennis rackets. Now a couple of Johnson's enterprising grad students have come up with a new invention-liquid metal foam.
According to Chris Veazey, who is working on his doctorate in materials science, the new stuff is a bulk metallic glass that has the stiffness of metal but the springiness of a trampoline. "You can squish it and the metal will spring back," says Veazey, who has given the stuff the tentative name "bubbloy," a combination of "bubble" and "alloy."
Greg Welsh, the co-inventor and also a doctoral student in materials science at Caltech, adds that bubbloy is made possible by a process that foams the alloy so that tiny bubbles form. Preliminary results show that if the bubbles nearly touch, the substance will be especially springy.
"We think it might be especially useful for the crumple zone of a car," says Veazey. "It should make a car safer than one where the structures in the crumple zone are made of conventional metals."
Bubbloy is made of palladium, nickel, copper, and phosphorus. This particular alloy was already known as one of the best bulk metallic glasses around, but Veazey and Welsh's contribution was figuring out how to get the stuff to foam. Other researchers have previously figured out how to foam metals like titanium and aluminum, but bubbloy will have big advantages in the strength-to-weight ratio.
How good is good? Veazey and Welsh's preliminary castings result in bubbloy that is light enough to float in water, yet quite strong and elastic.
"To make it really well is a challenge," Welsh says.
Bubbloy is one of several advances that will be showcased at a September 15 conference at Caltech. The conference, titled "Materials at the Fore," is the third annual meeting of the Center for the Science and Engineering of Materials at Caltech.
The day-long conference will begin with check-in and a continental breakfast at the Beckman Institute Courtyard on the west side of campus. Opening remarks and an overview of the conference will be presented at 8:30 a.m. by center director Julia Kornfield, a professor of chemical engineering at Caltech.
Presentations will include "Nano-scale Mechanical Properties," by Subra Suresh of MIT; "Synthesis and Assembly of Biological Macromolecules: DNA and Beyond," by Steve Quake of Caltech; "Thermoelectric Devices," by Sossina Haile of Caltech, and others.
Attendance is free but requires registration, and reporters are welcome to cover any or all of the presentations. Complete information is available at the Web site http://www.csem.caltech.edu/annrev/index.html.
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Two months after a pivotal study on the potential impact of a future hydrogen economy on the environment, further evidence is emerging on what would happen to new quantities of hydrogen released into the atmosphere through human activity.
In an article appearing in the August 21 issue of the journal Nature, a group of researchers from the California Institute of Technology and other institutions reports results of a study of the atmospheric chemical reactions that produce and destroy molecular hydrogen in the stratosphere. Based on these results, the report concludes that most of the hydrogen eliminated from the atmosphere goes into the ground, and therefore that the scientific community will need to turn its focus toward soil destruction of hydrogen in order to accurately predict whether human emissions will accumulate in the air. The researchers reached this conclusion through careful measurement of the abundance of a rare isotope of hydrogen known as deuterium. It has long been known that atmospheric molecular hydrogen is anomalously rich in deuterium, but it was unclear why. The only reasonable explanation seemed to be that atmospheric hydrogen is mostly destroyed by chemical reactions in the air, and that those reactions are relatively slow for deuterium-rich hydrogen, so it accumulates like salt in an evaporating pan of water.
If correct, this would mean that oxidizing atmospheric trace gases control the natural hydrogen cycle and that soils are relatively unimportant. The Caltech group discovered that one of the main natural sources of atmospheric hydrogen--the breakdown of methane--is actually responsible for the atmosphere's enrichment in deuterium. This result implies that reactions with atmospheric oxidants are relatively unimportant to the hydrogen cycle, and that uptake by soils is really in the driver's seat.
This issue is important because of the potential for a future hydrogen economy to leak hydrogen into the air--a scenario explored in the earlier study published in Science. Such leaks of hydrogen seem likely at present, and if they occur must either be mitigated by some natural processes that destroy hydrogen, or else the leaked hydrogen will accumulate in the atmosphere. If the latter, this hydrogen would inevitably find its way into the stratosphere and participate in chemical reactions that damage the ozone layer. The key to predicting how this chain of events will unfold is knowing what natural processes destroy hydrogen, and to what extent they might counteract increases in human emissions.
Hydrogen is a highly reactive element, but the question of when and where it reacts, and under what circumstances, is difficult to know precisely. This question is simplified in the stratosphere, where it's easier to single out and understand specific reactions. According to John Eiler, an assistant professor of geochemistry at the California Institute of Technology and an author of both the new paper and the June paper in Science, the new data were gathered from air samples gathered in the stratosphere with one of the high-flying ER-2 planes operated by the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center in the Mojave Desert.
The ER-2, a reconfigured U-2 spy plane, is part of NASA's Airborne Research Program and is crucial to atmospheric chemists interested in directly collecting stratospheric samples for air-quality research. The air samples that were collected in the ER-2 in various locales show that there is an extreme enrichment of deuterium in stratospheric hydrogen.
"We wanted to look at hydrogen in the stratosphere because it's easy to study the production of hydrogen from methane separate from other influences," Eiler explains. "It may seem odd to go to the stratosphere to understand what's happening in the ground, but this was the best way to get a global perspective on the importance of soils to the hydrogen cycle."
With precise information on the deuterium content of hydrogen formed from methane, the researchers were able to calculate that the soil uptake of hydrogen is as high as 80 percent. It is suspected that this hydrogen is used by soil-living microbes to carry on their biological functions, although the details of this process are poorly understood and have been the subject of only a few previous studies.
It seems likely that the hydrogen taken up by soils is relatively free of environmental consequences, but the question still remains how much more hydrogen the soil can consume. If future use of hydrogen in transportation results in a significant amount of leakage, then soil uptake must increase dramatically or it will be inadequate to cleanse the released hydrogen from the atmosphere, Eiler says.
"An analogy would be the discovery that trees and other plants get rid of some of the carbon dioxide that cars emit, but by no means all of it," he says. "So the question as we look toward a future hydrogen economy is whether the microbes will be able to eat the hydrogen fast enough."
The research was funded in part by the National Science Foundation. Bruce Doddridge, program director in the NSF's division of atmospheric science, said, "This carefully conducted research investigating the natural chemistry of sources and sinks affecting the abundance of molecular hydrogen in the troposphere results in the most accurate information to date, and appears to account for the tropospheric deuterium excess previously observed.
"A more accurate molecular hydrogen budget may have important implications as global fuel technology shifts its focus from fossil fuels to other sources," Doddridge added.
The lead author of the paper is Thom Rahn, a former postdoctoral scholar of Eiler's who is now affiliated with Los Alamos National Laboratory. The other authors are Paul Wennberg, a professor of atmospheric chemistry and environmental engineering science at Caltech; Kristie A. Boering and Michael McCarthy, both of UC Berkeley; Stanley Tyler of UC Irvine; and Sue Schauffler of the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado.
In addition to the NSF, other supporters of the research were the Davidow Fund and General Motors Corp., the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, the NASA Upper Atmosphere Research Program, and the National Center for Atmospheric Research.
Now, researchers at the California Institute of Technology have found that within subduction zones, the regions where one of the earth's plates slips below another, areas where the attraction due to gravity is relatively high are less likely to experience large earthquakes than areas where the gravitational force is relatively low.
The study, by Caltech graduate student Teh-Ru Alex Song and Associate Professor of Geophysics Mark Simons, will appear in the August 1 issue of the journal Science.
Until now, says Simons, researchers studying earthquake behavior generally took one of four approaches: 1) analyzing seismograms generated by earthquakes, 2) studying frictional properties of various types of rock in the laboratory or in the field, 3) measuring the slow accumulation of strain between earthquakes with survey techniques, and 4) large-scale dynamic models of earthquakes and tectonics.
Instead of using one of these approaches, Song and Simons considered variations in the gravity field as a predictor of seismic behavior.
A gravity anomaly occurs when gravity is stronger or weaker than the regional average. For example, a mountain or an especially dense rock would tend to increase the nearby gravity field, creating a positive anomaly. Likewise, a valley would tend to create a negative anomaly.
Song and Simons examined existing data from satellite-derived observations of the gravity field in subduction zones. Comparing variations in gravity along the trenches with earthquake data from two different catalogs going back 100 years, the team found that, within a given subduction zone, areas with negative gravity anomalies correlated with increased large earthquake activity. Areas with relatively high gravity anomalies experienced fewer large earthquakes.
In addition, most of the energy released in earthquakes was in areas of low gravity. The team looked at subduction zone earthquakes with magnitude greater than 7.5 since 1976. They found that of the total energy released in those earthquakes, 44 percent came from regions with the most strongly negative gravity anomalies, though these regions made up only 14 percent of the total area.
Song and Simons also compared the location of large earthquakes with the topography of the subduction zones, finding that areas of low topography (such as basins) also corresponded well to areas with low gravity and high seismic activity.
So why would gravity and topography be related to seismic activity?
One possible link is via the frictional behavior of the fault. When two plates rub up against each other, friction between the plates makes it harder for them to slide. If the friction is great enough, the plates will stick. Over long periods of time, as the stuck plates push against each other, they may deform, creating spatial variations in topography and gravity.
In addition to deforming the plates, friction causes stress to build up. When too much stress builds up, the plates will suddenly jump, releasing the strain in the sometimes violent shaking of an earthquake.
If there were no friction between the plates, they would just slide right by each other smoothly, without bending or building up the strain that eventually results in earthquakes.
So in subduction zones, areas under high stress are likely to have greater gravity and topography anomalies, and are also more likely to have earthquakes.
Though this account provides a basic explanation for a rather complicated and unintuitive phenomenon, it is a simplified view, and Song and Simons would like to do more work to refine the details of the relation between the gravity field and large earthquakes.
The gravity anomalies the team considered take a long time to build up, and change very little over timescales up to at least 1 million years. Short-term events such as earthquakes do change the gravity field as the earth's plates suddenly move, but those variations are small compared with the long-term anomalies, which are on the order of 4 x 10^-4 m/s^2.
Because topography and gravity variations persist over periods of time much longer than the typical time between earthquakes, 100 to 1,000 years, large earthquakes should be consistently absent from areas with large positive gravity anomalies, say Song and Simons.
"This study makes a strong connection between long-term tectonic behavior and short-term seismic activity," says Simons, "and thereby provides a class of new observations for understanding earthquake dynamics."
Though no one can tell when or where the next major earthquake will occur, Global Positioning System measurements can show where strain is accumulating. Simons hopes to use such measurements to test the prediction that areas with high gravity will have low strain, and vice versa. The team points out that although large earthquakes occur where gravity and topography are low, there are low-gravity areas in subduction zones with no seismic activity. Furthermore, the research concentrates on subduction zones, and so makes no predictions about other types of faults.
Nonetheless, within a subduction zone known to be earthquake-prone, Simons believes earthquakes are more likely to occur in low-gravity zones. High gravity areas do tend to have few earthquakes. So while the research does not offer a way to predict where earthquakes will happen, it can predict where they won't happen, says Simons.
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PALOMAR Mountain, Calif. — A major new sky survey has begun at the Palomar Observatory. The Palomar-QUEST survey, a collaborative venture between the California Institute of Technology, Yale University, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and Indiana University, will explore the universe from our solar system out to the most distant quasars, more than 10 billion light-years away.
The survey will be done using the newly refurbished 48-inch Oschin Telescope, originally used to produce major photographic sky atlases starting in 1950s. At its new technological heart is a very special, fully digital camera. The camera contains 112 digital imaging detectors, known as charge-coupled devices (CCDs). The largest astronomical camera until now has had 30 CCDs. CCDs are often used for digital imaging ranging from common snapshot cameras to sophisticated scientific instruments. Designed and built by scientists at Yale and Indiana Universities, the QUEST (Quasar Equatorial Survey Team) camera was recently installed on the Oschin Telescope. "We are excited by the new data we are starting to obtain from the Palomar Observatory with the new QUEST camera," says Charles Baltay, Higgins Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Yale University. Baltay's dream of building a large electronic camera that could capture the entire field of view of a wide-field telescope is now a reality. The survey will generate astronomical data at an unprecedented rate, about one terabyte per month; a terabyte is a million megabytes, an amount of information approximately equivalent to that contained in two million books. In two years, the survey will generate an amount of information about equal to that in the entire Library of Congress.
A major new feature of the Palomar-QUEST survey will be many repeated observations of the same portions of the sky, enabling researchers to find not only objects that move (like asteroids or comets), but also objects that vary in brightness, such as the supernova explosions, variable stars, quasars, or cosmic gamma-ray bursts--and to do this at an unprecedented scale.
"Previous sky surveys provided essentially digital snapshots of the sky", says S. George Djorgovski, professor of astronomy at Caltech. "Now we are starting to make digital movies of the universe." Djorgovski and his team, in collaboration with the Yale group, are also planning to use the survey to discover large numbers of very distant quasars--highly luminous objects believed to be powered by massive black holes in the centers of young galaxies--and to use them to probe the early stages of the universe.
Richard Ellis, Steele Professor of Astronomy and director of the Caltech Optical Observatories, will use QUEST in the search for exploding stars, known as supernovae. He and his team, in conjunction with the group from Yale, will use their observations of these exploding stars in an attempt to confirm or deny the recent finding that our universe is accelerating as it expands.
Shri Kulkarni, MacArthur Professor of Astronomy and Planetary Science at Caltech, studies gamma-ray bursts, the most energetic stellar explosions in the cosmos. They are short lived and unpredictable. When a gamma-ray burst is detected its exact location in the sky is uncertain. The automated Oschin Telescope, armed with the QUEST camera's wide field of view, is poised and ready to pin down the exact location of these explosions, allowing astronomers to catch and study the fading glows of the gamma-ray bursts as they occur.
Closer to home, Caltech associate professor of planetary astronomy Mike Brown is looking for objects at the edge of our solar system, in the icy swarm known as the Kuiper Belt. Brown is convinced that there big objects out there, possibly as big as the planet Mars. He, in collaboration with astronomer David Rabinowitz of Yale, will use QUEST to look for them.
Steve Pravdo, project manager for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking (NEAT) Project, will use QUEST to continue the NEAT search which began in 2001. The QUEST camera will extend the search for asteroids that might one day approach or even collide with our planet.
The Palomar-QUEST survey will undoubtedly enable many other kinds of scientific investigations in the years to come. The intent is to make all of the copious amounts of data publicly available in due time on the Web, as a part of the nascent National Virtual Observatory. Roy Williams, member of the professional staff of Caltech's Center for Advanced Computing Research, is working on the National Virtual Observatory project, which will greatly increase the scientific impact of the data and ease its use for public and educational outreach as well.
The QUEST team members from Indiana University are Jim Musser, Stu Mufson, Kent Honeycutt, Mark Gebhard, and Brice Adams. Yale University's team includes Charles Baltay, David Rabinowitz, Jeff Snyder, Nick Morgan, Nan Ellman, William Emmet, and Thomas Hurteau. The members from the California Institute of Technology are S. George Djorgovski, Richard Ellis, Ashish Mahabal, and Roy Williams. The Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking team from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory consists of Raymond Bambery, principal investigator, and coinvestigators Michael Hicks, Kenneth Lawrence, Daniel MacDonald, and Steven Pravdo.
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Using a technique based on Einstein's theory of general relativity, an international group of astronomers led by Jean-Paul Kneib, Richard Ellis, and Tommaso Treu of the California Institute of Technology mapped the mass distribution of a gigantic cluster of galaxies about 4.5 billion light-years from Earth. They did this by studying the way the cluster bends the light from other galaxies behind it. This technique, known as gravitational lensing, allowed the researchers to infer the mass contribution of the dark matter, even though it is otherwise invisible.
Clusters of galaxies are the largest stable systems in the universe and ideal "laboratories" for studying the relationship between the distributions of dark and visible matter. Caltech's Fritz Zwicky realized in 1937 from studies of the motions of galaxies in the nearby Coma cluster that the visible component of a cluster--the stars in galaxies--represents only a tiny fraction of the total mass. About 80 to 85 percent of the matter is invisible.
In a campaign of over 120 hours of observations using the Hubble Space Telescope, the researchers surveyed a patch of sky almost as large as the full moon, which contained the cluster and thousands of more distant galaxies behind it. The distorted shapes of these distant systems were used to map the dark matter in the foreground cluster. The study achieved a new level of precision, not only for the center of the cluster, as has been done before for many systems, but also for the previously uncharted outlying regions.
The result is the most comprehensive study to date of the distribution of dark matter and its relationship to the shining galaxies. Signals were traced as far out as 15 million light-years from the cluster center, a much larger range than in previous investigations.
Many researchers have tried to perform these types of measurements with ground-based telescopes, but the technique relies heavily on measuring the exact shapes of distant galaxies behind the cluster, and for this the "surgeon's eye" of the Hubble Space Telescope is far superior.
The study, to be published soon in the Astrophysical Journal, reveals that the density of dark matter falls fairly sharply with distance from the cluster center, defining a limit to its distribution and hence the total mass of the cluster. The falloff in density with radius confirms a picture that has emerged from detailed computer simulations over the past years.
Team member Richard Ellis said, "Although theorists have predicted the distribution of dark matter in clusters from numerical simulations based on the effects of gravity, this is the first time we have convincing observations on large scales to back them up.
"Some astronomers had speculated clusters might contain large reservoirs of dark matter in their outermost regions," Ellis added. "Assuming our cluster is representative, this is not the case."
In finer detail, the team noticed that some structure emerged from their map of the dark matter. For example they found localized concentrations of dark matter associated with galaxies known to be slowly falling into the system. Overall there is a striking correspondence between features in the dark matter map and that delineated by the cluster galaxies, which is an important result in the new study.
"The close association of dark matter with structure in the galaxy distribution is convincing evidence that clusters like the one studied built up from the merging of smaller groups of galaxies, which were prevented from flying away by the gravitational pull of their dark matter," says Jean-Paul Kneib, who is the lead author in the publication.
Future investigations will extend this work using Hubble's new camera, the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS), which will be trained on a second cluster later this year. ACS is 10 times more efficient than the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2, which was used for this investigation. With the new instrument, it will be possible to study clumps of finer mass in galaxy clusters in order to investigate how the clusters originally were assembled.
By tracing the distribution of dark matter in the most massive structure in the universe using the powerful trick of gravitational lensing, astronomers are making great progress towards a better understanding of how such systems were assembled, as well as toward defining the key role of dark matter.
In addition to Kneib, Ellis, and Treu, the other team members are Patrick Hudelot of the Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées in France, Graham P. Smith of Caltech, Phil Marshall of the Mullard Radio Observatory in England, Oliver Czoske of the Institut für Astrophysik und Extraterrestrische Forschung in Germany, Ian Smail of the University of Durham in England, and Priya Natarajan of Yale University.
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Scientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) have set a new Internet2 land speed record using the next-generation Internet protocol IPv6. The team sustained a single stream TCP rate of 983 megabits per second for more than one hour between the CERN facility in Geneva and Chicago, a distance of more than 7,000 kilometers. This is equivalent to transferring a full CD in 5.6 seconds.
The performance is remarkable because it overcomes two important challenges:
· IPv6 forwarding at Gigabit-per-second speeds · High-speed TCP performance across high bandwidth/latency networks.
This major step towards demonstrating how effectively IPv6 can be used should encourage scientists and engineers in many sectors of society to deploy the next-generation Internet protocol, the Caltech researchers say.
This latest record by Caltech and CERN is a further step in an ongoing research-and-development program to develop high-speed global networks as the foundation of next generation data-intensive grids. Caltech and CERN also hold the current Internet2 land speed record in the IPv4 class, where IPv4 is the traditional Internet protocol that carries 90 percent of the world's network traffic today. In collaboration with the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), Los Alamos National Laboratory, and the companies Cisco Systems, Level 3, and Intel, the team transferred one terabyte of data across 10,037 kilometers in less than one hour, from Sunnyvale, California, to Geneva, Switzerland. This corresponds to a sustained TCP rate of 2.38 gigabits per second for more than one hour.
Multi-gigabit-per-second IPv4 and IPv6 end-to-end network performance will lead to new research and business models. People will be able to form "virtual organizations" of planetary scale, sharing in a flexible way their collective computing and data resources. In particular, this is vital for projects on the frontiers of science and engineering, projects such as particle physics, astronomy, bioinformatics, global climate modeling, and seismology.
Harvey Newman, professor of physics at Caltech, said, "This is a major milestone towards our dynamic vision of globally distributed analysis in data-intensive, next-generation high-energy physics (HEP) experiments. Terabyte-scale data transfers on demand, by hundreds of small groups and thousands of scientists and students spread around the world, is a basic element of this vision; one that our recent records show is realistic. IPv6, with its increased address space and security features is vital for the future of global networks, and especially for organizations such as ours, where scientists from all world regions are building computing clusters on an increasing scale, and where we use computers including wireless laptop and mobile devices in all aspects of our daily work.
"In the future, the use of IPv6 will allow us to avoid network address translations (NAT) that tend to impede the use of video-advanced technologies for real-time collaboration," Newman added. "These developments also will empower the broader research community to use peer-to-peer and other advanced grid architectures in support of their computationally intensive scientific goals."
Olivier Martin, head of external networking at CERN and manager of the DataTAG project said, "These new records clearly demonstrate the maturity of IPv6 protocols and the availability of suitable off-the-shelf commercial products. They also establish the feasibility of transferring very large amounts of data using a single TCP/IP stream rather than multiple streams as has been customarily done until now by most researchers as a quick fix to TCP/IP's congestion avoidance algorithms. I am optimistic that the various research groups working on this issue will now quickly release new TCP/IP stacks having much better resilience to packet losses on long-distance multi-gigabit-per-second paths, thus allowing similar or even better records to be established across shared Internet backbones."
The team used the optical networking capabilities of the LHCnet, DataTAG, and StarLight and gratefully acknowledges support from the DataTAG project sponsored by the European Commission (EU Grant IST-2001-32459), the DOE Office of Science, High Energy and Nuclear Physics Division (DOE Grants DE-FG03-92-ER40701 and DE-FC02-01ER25459), and the National Science Foundation (Grants ANI 9730202, ANI-0230967, and PHY-0122557).
About the California Institute of Technology (Caltech):
With an outstanding faculty, including four Nobel laureates, and such off-campus facilities as Palomar Observatory, and the W. M. Keck Observatory, the California Institute of Technology is one of the world's major research centers. The Institute also conducts instruction in science and engineering for a student body of approximately 900 undergraduates and 1,000 graduate students who maintain a high level of scholarship and intellectual achievement. Caltech's 124-acre campus is situated in Pasadena, California, a city of 135,000 at the foot of the San Gabriel Mountains, approximately 30 miles inland from the Pacific Ocean and 10 miles northeast of the Los Angeles Civic Center. Caltech is an independent, privately supported university, and is not affiliated with either the University of California system or the California State Polytechnic universities. More information is available at http://www.caltech.edu.
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CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, has its headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. At present, its member states are Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. Israel, Japan, the Russian Federation, the United States of America, Turkey, the European Commission, and UNESCO have observer status. For more information, see http://www.cern.ch.
About the European Union DataTAG project:
The DataTAG is a project co-funded by the European Union, the U.S. Department of Energy, and the National Science Foundation. It is led by CERN together with four other partners. The project brings together the following European leading research agencies: Italy's Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), France's Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (INRIA), the UK's Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council (PPARC), and Holland's University of Amsterdam (UvA). The DataTAG project is very closely associated with the European Union DataGrid project, the largest grid project in Europe also led by CERN. For more information, see http://www.datatag.org.
In an article appearing this week in the journal Science, researchers from the California Institute of Technology report that the leaked hydrogen gas that would inevitably result from a hydrogen economy, if it accumulates, could indirectly cause as much as a 10-percent decrease in atmospheric ozone. The researchers are physics research scientist Tracey Tromp, Assistant Professor of Geochemistry John Eiler, planetary science professor Yuk Yung, planetary science research scientist Run-Lie Shia, and Jet Propulsion Laboratory scientist Mark Allen.
If hydrogen were to replace fossil fuel entirely, the researchers estimate that 60 to 120 trillion grams of hydrogen would be released each year into the atmosphere, assuming a 10-to-20-percent loss rate due to leakage. This is four to eight times as much hydrogen as is currently released into the atmosphere by human activity, and would result in doubling or tripling of inputs to the atmosphere from all sources, natural or human.
Because molecular hydrogen freely moves up and mixes with stratospheric air, the result would be the creation of additional water at high altitudes and, consequently, an increased dampening of the stratosphere. This in turn would result in cooling of the lower stratosphere and disturbance of ozone chemistry, which depends on a chain of chemical reactions involving hydrochloric acid and chlorine nitrate on water ice.
The estimates of potential damage to stratospheric ozone levels are based on an atmospheric modeling program that tests the various scenarios that might result, depending on how much hydrogen ends up in the stratosphere from all sources, both natural and anthropogenic.
Ideally, a hydrogen fuel-cell vehicle has no environmental impact. Energy is produced by combining hydrogen with oxygen pulled from the atmosphere, and the tailpipe emission is water. The hydrogen fuel could come from a number of sources (Iceland recently started pulling it out of the ground). Nuclear power could be used to generate the electricity needed to split water, and in principle, the electricity needed could also be derived from renewable sources such as solar of wind power.
By comparison, the internal combustion engine uses fossil fuels and produces many pollutants, including soot, noxious nitrogen and sulfur gases, and the "greenhouse gas" carbon dioxide. While a hydrogen fuel-cell economy would almost certainly improve urban air quality, it has the potential unexpected consequences due to the inevitable leakage of hydrogen from cars, hydrogen production facilities, the transportation of the fuel.
Uncertainty remains about the effects on the atmosphere because scientists still have a limited understanding of the hydrogen cycle. At present, it seems likely such emissions could accumulate in the air. Such a build-up would have several consequences, chief of which would be a moistening and cooling of the upper atmosphere and, indirectly, destruction of ozone.
In this respect, hydrogen would be similar to the chlorofluorocarbons (once the standard substance used for air conditioning and refrigeration), which were intended to be contained within their devices, but which in practice leaked into the atmosphere and attacked the stratospheric ozone layer.
The authors of the Science article say that the current situation is unique in that society has the opportunity to understand the potential environmental impact well ahead of the growth of a hydrogen economy. This contrasts with the cases of atmospheric carbon dioxide, methyl bromide, CFCs, and lead, all of which were released into the environment by humans long before their consequences were understood.
"We have an unprecedented opportunity this time to understand what we're getting into before we even switch to the new technology," says Tromp, the lead author. "It won't be like the case with the internal-combustion engine, when we started learning the effects of carbon dioxide decades later."
The question of whether or not hydrogen is bad for the environment hinges on whether the planet has the ability to consume excess anthropogenic hydrogen, explains Eiler. "This man-made hydrogen will either be absorbed in the soil -- a process that is still poorly understood but likely free of environmental consequences -- or react with other compounds in the atmosphere.
"The balance of these two processes will be key to the outcome," says Eiler. "If soils dominate, a hydrogen economy might have little effect on the environment. But if the atmosphere is the big player, the stratospheric cooling and destruction of ozone modeled in this Science paper are more likely to occur.
"Determining which of these two processes dominates should be a solvable problem," states Eiler, whose research group is currently exploring the natural budget of hydrogen using new isotopic techniques.
"Understanding the effects of hydrogen on the environment now should help direct the technologies that will be the basis of a hydrogen economy," Tromp adds. "If hydrogen emissions present an environmental hazard, then recognizing that hazard now can help guide investments in technologies to favor designs that minimize leakage.
"On the other hand, if hydrogen is shown to be environmentally friendly in every respect, then designers could pursue the most cost-effective technologies and potentially save billions in needless safeguards."
"Either way, it's good for society that we have an emission scenario at this stage," says Eiler. "In past cases -- with chlorofluorocarbons, nitrogen oxides, methane, methyl bromide, carbon dioxide, and carbon monoxide -- we always found out that there were problems long after they were in common use. But this time, we have a unique opportunity to study the anthropogenic implications of a new technology before it's even a problem."
If hydrogen indeed turns out to be bad for the ozone layer, should the transition to hydrogen-fueled cars be abandoned? Not necessarily, Tromp and Eiler claim.
"If it's the best way to provide a new energy source for our needs, then we can, and probably should, do it," Tromp says.
Eiler adds, "If we had had perfect foreknowledge of the effects of carbon dioxide a hundred years ago, would we have abandoned the internal combustion engine? Probably not. But we might have begun the process of controlling CO2 emissions earlier."
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I remember seeing on some malaysian audio forum a picture of a dacport's insides. It seems it uses the same d/a converter as the dacmini, the akm 4396
but this isnt barring anyone from exploring their own dacports... the pictures on the forum were very blurry so i couldnt confirm if this was ture, but the photographer said that he saw the 4396 chip
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Can be found onboard:
AKM AK4396VF Multi Bit 192 KHz 24-Bit Sigma Delta DAC
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TI TAS 1020B Stereo USB Audio interface
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+ lots of passives on the audio board,
Can't post pictures though.
centrance posted a picture on their blog
I promise I will put a lot of pictures here, as soon as I will receive my DACport. I will dismantle it piece by piece and do reverse engineering...
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Here's a link to the blog guys:
Guys, you're really amazing! I wasn't expected to see that on your blog... neither on your site.
That's a real piece of engineering! So, in this case, I will not open anymore my DACport...
My curiosity is satisfied now...
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I'm a big fan of CEntrance. When the time is right I might repurchase the LX or whatever else comes down the pipeline.
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I can't wait to get my hands on one of these.
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I was wondering what would be a better fit for my HD650's as I already have a headroom cosmic reference amp... better to use the dacport lx or the audio-GD NFB-12 or just get the musiland 02US for just the DAC. I'm loving the headroom amp with my 650's just want to bump it up one notch and get a good dac for that combo. Anyone have recommendations?
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The Centrance Mini looks good. I think might try to trade my Dac for one.
Hi Jay,
Here's a link to the blog guys:
Do you know what the source device is, in the middle of this photo from the link you provided? Is it running Windows 7?
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This is a Squeezebox Touch from Logitech.
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