BASIC ENERGY SCIENCES Serving the Present, Shaping the Future

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BASIC ENERGY SCIENCES -- Serving the Present,
Shaping the Future
Office of Basic Energy SciencesOffice of
ScienceU.S. Department of Energy
Basic Energy Sciences Update
Dr. Patricia M. Dehmer Director, Office of Basic
Energy Sciences Office of Science U.S. Department
of Energy 7 March 2005 6 June 2005
http//www.sc.doe.gov/bes/
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• FY 2006 Budget Update
• Basic Research Needs to Assure a Secure Energy
  Future An Update

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The Big Budget Chart
YOU ARE HERE! June 2005 BESAC Mtg.
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U.S. Competitiveness

• Given the rising bar for competitiveness, the
  United States needs to be in the lead or among
  the leaders in every major field of research to
  sustain its innovation capabilities.
• U.S. Competitiveness 2001 Strengths,
  Vulnerabilities and Long Term Priorities,
  Council on Competitiveness
• (This was the lead slide in the FY 2006 Office of
  Science budget rollout presentation.)

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FY 2006 funding 1.6 below FY 2005 appropriations
(excluding Congressionally directed projects) and
0.9 above the FY 2005 request

• A difficult budget year however, the Office of
  Science continues to provide world leadership in
  science and for energy security.

• The budget forces us to make tough choices. SCs
  prioritization provides for a strong and healthy
  future for U.S. science consistent with the
  20-year facilities outlook.

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Office of ScienceFY 2006 Congressional Budget
Request
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Office of ScienceFY 2006 Congressional Budget
Request
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3.75
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Includes all facilities except the Combustion
Research Facility
Materials Sciences and Engineering
Chemical Sciences, Geosciences, and Energy
Biosciences ...
Includes the Combustion Research Facility
3.75
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A Tour of the FY 2006 BES Budget without Reading
106 Pages
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Budget Numbers Only 106 pages reduces to 2
pages
Remember that FY 2005 column includes the 50M
Congressional add on provided during the
appropriation process last year.
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Construction is Fully Funded
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Operation of Scientific User Facilities
30M was provided to BES in FY 2006 for support
of the SLAC linac. This begins the transition
from HEP to BES ownership. This addition alone
accounts for 2.72 increase in BES budget.
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Research in the Division of Materials Sciences
and Engineering
-4,000
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Research in the Div. of Chemical Sci.,
Geosciences, Biosciences
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FY 2006 Budget House Mark
BASIC ENERGY SCIENCES The Committee
recommendation for Basic Energy Sciences is
1,173,149,000, an increase of 27,132,000 over
the budget request. Research.The Committee
recommendation includes 772,025,000 for
materials sciences and engineering, and
223,051,000 for chemical sciences, geosciences,
and energy biosciences. An additional 19,737,000
is provided to maintain operating time on the
Basic Energy Sciences user facilities at fiscal
year 2005 levels, and an additional 7,395,000 is
provided to restore university grants for core
research in the basic energy sciences. The
Committee recommendation funds nanoscale science
research and the science research portion of the
hydrogen initiative at the requested levels. Also
included within this account is 7,280,000 for
the Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive
Research (EPSCoR), the same as the budget
request. Construction.The Committee
recommendation includes 178,073,000 for Basic
Energy Sciences construction projects, the same
as the requested amount. The Committee
recommendation provides the requested funding of
41,744,000 for the Spallation Neutron Source
(99E334) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory
2,544,000 for Title I and Title II design work
(03SC002) and 83,000,000 to initiate
construction (05R320) for the Linac Coherent
Light Source at the Stanford Linear Accelerator
Center 36,553,000 for the Center for Functional
Nanomaterials (05R 321) at Brookhaven National
Laboratory 9,606,000 for the Molecular Foundry
(04R313) at Lawrence Berkeley National
Laboratory and 4,626,000 for the Center for
Integrated Nanotechnologies (03R313) at Los
Alamos and Sandia National Laboratories.
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Basic Research Needs to Assure a Secure Energy
Future
Considering the urgency of the energy problem,
the magnitude of the needed scientific
breakthroughs, and the historic rate of
scientific discovery, current efforts will likely
be too little, too late. Accordingly, BESAC
believes that a new national energy research
program is essential and must be initiated with
the intensity and commitment of the Manhattan
Project, and sustained until this problem is
solved. BESAC Report, February 2003
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Basic Research for a Secure Energy
Future Supply, Consumption, and Carbon
Management,
Energy Consumption
Fossil Carbon Energy Sources
Non-Carbon or Carbon Neutral Energy
Sources/ Carriers
Carbon Management
Energy Conservation, Energy Efficiency, and
Environmental Stewardship
Transportation
Coal
Nuclear Fission
CO2 Sequestration
Geologic
Petroleum
Buildings
Nuclear Fusion
Terrestrial
Industry
Natural Gas
Hydrogen
Oceanic
Carbon Recycle
Oil shale, tar sands, hydrates,
Renewables
Global Climate Change Science
Hydropower
Biomass
Geothermal
Ocean
Wind
Solar
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Basic Research for Hydrogen Production, Storage
and Use Workshop May 13-15, 2003
Bridging the gaps that separate the hydrogen-
and fossil-fuel based economies in cost,
performance, and reliability goes far beyond
incremental advances in the present state of the
art. Rather, fundamental breakthroughs are needed
in the understanding and control of chemical and
physical processes involved in the production,
storage, and use of hydrogen. Of particular
importance is the need to understand the atomic
and molecular processes that occur at the
interface of hydrogen with materials in order to
develop new materials suitable for use in a
hydrogen economy. New materials are needed for
membranes, catalysts, and fuel cell assemblies
that perform at much higher levels, at much lower
cost, and with much longer lifetimes. Such
breakthroughs will require revolutionary, not
evolutionary, advances. Discovery of new
materials, new chemical processes, and new
synthesis techniques that leapfrog technical
barriers is required. This kind of progress can
be achieved only with highly innovative, basic
research.
Workshop Chair Millie Dresselhaus (MIT) Associat
e Chairs George Crabtree (ANL) Michelle
Buchanan (ORNL)
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BES Solicitation for Basic Research for Hydrogen
Fuel Initiative

• Two solicitations (one for grants and one for
  FFRDCs) were issued in April 2004. FFRDCs were
  limited to six submissions as leading
  institution. There was no limit on the number of
  submissions for universities.
• 668 qualified preproposals were received by July
  15, 2004 in the following five categories.
• Novel Materials for Hydrogen Storage
• Membranes for Separation, Purification, and Ion
  Transport
• Design of Catalysts at the Nanoscale
• Solar Hydrogen Production
• Bio-Inspired Materials and Processes
• 227 full proposals were received by January 4,
  2005.

Bio-
Inspired
Storage (50)
Solar
(20)
(49)
Membranes
Catalysis (56)
(52)
Full Proposals Submitted

• 70 hydrogen research projects have been selected.
  Participants in the projects include more than
  50 research organizations in 25 states. A total
  of 64 million over three years will be provided
  by the Department to the awardees, subject to
  Congressional appropriations. Slightly over half
  of the funding is for university grants.

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BES Solicitation for Basic Research for Hydrogen
Fuel Initiative
Distribution of FY05 BES Hydrogen Solicitation
Proposals and Awards
668
261
227
70
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Basic Research for a Secure Energy
Future Supply, Consumption, and Carbon
Management,
Energy Consumption
Fossil Carbon Energy Sources
Non-Carbon or Carbon Neutral Energy
Sources/ Carriers
Carbon Management
Energy Conservation, Energy Efficiency, and
Environmental Stewardship
Transportation
Coal
Nuclear Fission
CO2 Sequestration
Geologic
Petroleum
Buildings
Nuclear Fusion
Terrestrial
Industry
Natural Gas
Hydrogen
Oceanic
Carbon Recycle
Oil shale, tar sands, hydrates,
Renewables
Global Climate Change Science
Hydropower
Biomass
Geothermal
Ocean
Wind
Solar
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Basic Research for DOE Missions is a Prime
Investment Strategy

• Mission challenges energy security
• Basic Research Needs for a Secure Energy Future
  (BESAC)
• Nanoscience Research for Energy Needs (NSTC)
• Basic Research Needs for the Hydrogen Economy
  (BES)
• Basic Research Needs for Effective Solar Energy
  Utilization (BES)
• Other topics for near-term workshops include
• Materials sciences for advanced energy systems
  and other select materials problems
• Efficient, benign chemistry and materials
  synthesis and processing
• Fundamental science challenges that underpin the
  mission
• The ultrasmall Science at the nanoscale the
  length scale where materials properties and
  functionality develop.
• The ultrafast Science at femtosecond and
  shorter timescales the time scale where
  chemistry happens.
• Complexity Science of systems that exhibit
  emergent properties not anticipated from an
  understanding of the components.
• Theory, modeling, and simulation (TMS)
  Explaining, predicting, simulating.
• Enabling tools Major scientific user facilities
  other special instruments
• Scientific user facilities for the Nation
• Facilities that provide the fundamental probes of
  matter photons, neutrons, and electrons for
  materials characterization. Also,
  instrumentation and sample environments at these
  facilities.

All of these reports may be downloaded
at http//www.sc.doe.gov/bes/reports/list.html