Newsletter of the Atlanta Chapter of ASM International http://atlanta.asminternational.org/portal/site/atlanta
Normally meets every 3rd Tuesday
March 2013 Volume 19 Number 4
Tuesday Evening, March 19, 2013
Joint Meeting for ASM/AIAA
Join us for our annual joint AIAA/ASM dinner meeting welcoming John M. Ho (Georgia
Tech) and Gail Tverberg (Space Solar Power Institute). Mr. Ho will discuss “Depleted
Uranium and Its Simulated Texture Using a Viscoplastic Self Consistent Model” . Ms.
Tverberg will discuss “Space Solar Power – Rebuilding Our Energy, Economy, and
Environment”.
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Gail Tverberg is a writer and speaker on issues related to "energy and our future", including the connection between oil shortages and the economy. She has been an invited speaker to many groups, including the Seventh Biennial International Workshop in
Energy Studies in Barcelona, Spain and the 2nd International Biophysical Economics
Conference. She has been interviewed on BNN, and her writings have been published by the Casualty Actuarial Society, Contingencies Magazine of the American Academy of
Actuaries, and Energy , Oil Supply Limits and the Continuing Financial Crisis. Her actuarial work has spanned a wide range of issues, from the evaluation of the expected direct and impacts of proposed tort reform legislation to the development of rates and pro forma financial statements for proposed new insurance companies. She is a Fellow of the
Casualty Actuarial Society, a Member of the American Academy of Actuaries, and has a
Master's Degree in Mathematics from the University of Illinois in Chicago. Her blog is called Our Finite World. She has accepted an appointment as Director of Energy
Economics at the Space Solar Power Institute.
Abstract: The depth and breadth of Energy, Environmental and Economic challenges we face is barely known outside specific entities that presumably were chartered to deal with each sectors. The Dept of Energy, for example, which was created to lead energy policy is, instead, a vacuum of energy leadership and waste. Individual states and countries have been attempting to impose energy policy with inadequate tools (RPS) and technologies.
The price of energy, including gas prices and dependent commodities from food to healthcare costs are eroding family finances precipitating intractable economic issues. We will examine the many particular issues SSP touches and conclude with a review of technologies linked to SSP's successful commercial initiation, construction, and operation. Given the existing technological condition can SSP answer the massive call to action required ? SSP would have many desirable properties:
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Very low CO2 emission intensity - about the same as wind power.
Zero water use - about the same as wind power.
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Zero fuel cost for power generation.
99.3% capacity factor (in full sun). Typical ground solar or wind is ~ 29% capacity factor (pseudo-random intermittent), requiring massively uneconomic storage to convert to dispatchable generation. SSP is greater than 71 times more energy
• efficient than wind or ground solar, due to the need to store wind or ground solar to make it reliable. Wind availability is inversely correlated with power demand, i.e. it is most available when it is least needed and least available when it is most needed.
Virtually unlimited in supply
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Schedule :
Social
Dinner
Introduction and Business
Mr. Ho’s presentation
Ms. Tverberg’s presentation
6:00 PM
6:30 PM
7:00 PM
7:15 PM
7:45 PM
Cost: $20 for professionals; $7 for Students
Menu: Three cheese stuffed chicken (chicken breast stuffed with wild rice and three
Italian cheeses), roasted potatoes, green beans almandine, fresh baked cookies, iced tea, and coffee
Reservations: Kindly RSVP by March 18, 12 pm
Jim Hubbard, jhubbard@magianalysis.com
Where: Institute of Paper Science and Technology (IPST) at the Georgia Institute of
Technology, Seminar Room #114. 10 th and Hemphill, Atlanta, GA.
Parking: Upon parking at IPST, proceed to the front desk and obtain a parking pass for your vehicle. ASM will pay for your parking pass. Vehicles without parking passes are subject to ticketing by Georgia Tech’s Parking and Transportation.
Directions:
From the Airport or I-75/I-85 Northbound
Take I-75/I-85 North to Exit 250 (Tenth Street - Fourteenth Street - Georgia Tech). Turn left at exit light on Tenth Street. Go about 3/4 mile. Just after you cross Hemphill Avenue, the parking entrance for IPST's main location will be on your left. The building is located at the corner of Tenth Street and Hemphill Avenue.
From I-75 or I-85 Southbound
Take I-75 south to Exit 250 (Sixteenth Street - Fourteenth Street - Tenth Street), or take I-
85 south to Exit 84 (17th Street - 14th Street - 10th Street). Follow the signs south on
Techwood Drive to Tenth Street. Take Tenth Street westbound (turn right). Go about 3/4 mile. Just after you cross Hemphill Avenue, the parking entrance for IPST's main location will be on your left. The building is located at the corner of Tenth Street and Hemphill
Avenue.
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Map:
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Jim Hubbard
Justin Yen
Jud Ready
Jake Wagner
Gautam Patel
Elected Officers jhubbard@magianalysis.com Chair jyen@atslab.com 1st Vice Chair for Programs
Jud.Ready@gtri.gatech.edu
2nd Vice Chair for Industry jwagner@esi-atl.com
gautam.patel@gtri.gatech.edu
Secretary
Treasurer
Standing Committee Chairs & Non-Elected Officers bakyuz@atslab.com jlmcdougall@esi-atl.com
Immediate Past Chair, Website
Past Chair
Burak Akyuz
Jeff McDougall
David Morrison
Naresh Thadhani
Justin Yen
Preet Singh
Kara Evanoff
David Morrison
Jennifer Breidenich
John Mihelich david.morrison@plansee.com Past Chair naresh.thadhani@mse.gatech.edu Academic Affairs jyen@atslab.com preet.singh@mse.gatech.edu
Membership Chair
Education, Short Course Chair evanoff@gatech.edu david.morrison@plansee.com
jlmihelich@comcast.net jenniferbreidenich@gmail.com
Chapter Council
Newsletter Editor
Yearbook / Directory Chair
Grad Student Chapter Chair
Past Chair, Long Term Planning
Jim Hubbard
George Kremer
Hamid Garmestani
Bill Livesay jhubbard@magianalysis.com builder792@charter.net hamid.garmestani@mse.gatech.edu livesay3@bellsouth.net
Past Chair, Long Term Planning
Past Chair, By-Laws Review
Past Chair, Student Poster Competition
Past Chair & Past Chapter
Council Representative
Burak Akyuz bakyuz@atslab.com ASM District V Chapter Council Representative
The chapter leadership is always looking for chapter members who are interested in actively supporting the work of your chapter. This is a particularly good time of the chapter year to contact one of the recently elected officers and offering your services as a member of one of the standing committees listed above. Please, please step up and contact one of these individuals!! You will find working with a technical society, and particularly this one, to be a rewarding experience.
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