Most current urban water systems were designed and built in the first half of the 20th century and are ill-prepared to cope with the impacts of climate change, population growth and ecosystem demands. On top of that, the infrastructure is deteriorating.
With funding from the Army Research Office, physics professor John Scales and a number of students and colleagues may have come up with a safer and more economical approach to the problem of landmine detection.
Research taking place at the Mines Hydrate Center could shed light on processes never before observed for avoiding another disaster like the April 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon rupture.
Economic Models Inform Policy Decisions “You always want to be forward-looking, right?” says Ed Balistreri, a recently tenured associate professor in the Division of Economics and Business. “That is key to rational policy. You have to understand what the consequences of the policy being imposed today will be in the future.”In a complex economy, that’s
It was just before Thanksgiving, 2008, when Mines doctoral student Matthew Walsh sat down at a keyboard in the chemical engineering building, typed in a few final instructions for the nearby supercomputer Ra, and took off for his holiday vacation. By the time he returned in January, he and his 7-foot-tall, 14-footlong virtual colleague had
Wind energy is the fastest-growing energy source in the world. Worldwide investments of $18 billion recorded in 2006 are expected to expand threefold to $60 billion by 2016. Although wind currently provides less than one percent of electrical power in the U.S., generation capability is plentiful and 20 percent could be supplied by wind without
Jorg Drewes was talking about water quality, a favorite topic, when the Mines Park student housing sprinklers kicked on just uphill. As artificial rain fell onto July bluegrass, he observed: “They’re wasting pure drinking water.” Drewes, an associate professor of environmental science and engineering, dedicates much of his intellectual energy to avoiding precisely such waste.
In 1924, indium was a scientific curiosity and merely a single isolated gram of it had been collected worldwide. Eighty-four years later, with the skyrocketing popularity of flat screens and the pending promise of its photovoltaic applications, indium ranks among the economy’s most critical minerals, according to a report entitled Minerals, Critical Minerals, and the
Colorado School of Mines has been awarded $9.3 million by the National Science Foundation to establish a new center that will focus on investigating emerging renewable energy materials and technologies. Mines’ award was part of a larger grant totaling $16.5 million, with the remaining $7.2 million going to the University of Colorado to expand work
Mines has been officially named part of the Center for Revolutionary Solar Photoconversion (CRSP), the newest research center of the Colorado Renewable Energy Collaboratory. CRSP is broadly focused on ways to convert the sun’s energy to low-cost electricity and fuels. “Mines’ involvement in CRSP will greatly enhance our research presence, particularly in the areas of