Annual Report- Part III - Florida Energy Systems Consortium

maintain and nurture an American fusion scientific workforce. This project will determine, using a fast dutycycle between theory, experiment, and simulation, the essential elements required for full kinetic modelingof an entire spheromak plasma using ab initio MHD with direct modifications from new turbulence physics.The project will focus on the management of fluctuations and transport in a spheromak plasma using newturbulence physics models and comprehensive helicity control. We will employ high time- and spatialresolutionmeasurements of electron temperatures, ion temperatures, and magnetic field fluctuations toinvestigate, understand, and eventually control reconnection driven heating as a means of increasing theplasma temperature of spheromak plasmas. We will use divertor diagnostics of radiation and particletransport along with edge biasing for electric field control to explore the effects of driven flows onconfinement and heating in spheromak plasmas with microparticles and will investigate the effects of MWpulses coupled to protons on the plasma current and confinement.Budget: $950,000 – Not Funded by FESCUniversities and External Collaborators:Dr. Earl Scime, West Virginia UniversityDr. Ed Thomas, Auburn UniversityDr. Simon Woodruff, Woodruff Scientific, IncTitle: Marketing Strategies to Incentives Entrepreneurship and Innovation in the Development ofSustainable EnergyPI: Joe Cronin - FSUDescription: The objective of this project was to investigate the role of market pull strategies in advancingsustainability goals. Specifically, the intent is to identify what “drives” consumers’ attitudes and behaviorsrelative to sustainable products. This includes consumers’ personal attitudes, opinions, and beliefs, theirperceptions of their own and organizations’ abilities to affect or change the environment in which they live,and their personal characteristics (e.g., demographics). In addition, in collaboration with the College ofCommunications, the strengths and weaknesses of the various communication modalities that can be usedto deliver sustainability knowledge to consumers (e.g., advertisements, testimonials, expert word-of-mouthcommunications, public relations, publicity, etc) were assessed. Specifically, the research attempts toidentify the optimal market pull modality; that is, the means by which to deliver to consumers theknowledge that drives the purchase of sustainable goods and services. The overall objective of the researchis to provide much needed market pull information for organizations embarking on “green” marketingstrategies; that is, firms in the process of developing or expanding their mix of environmentally friendlygoods and services.Budget: $191,555This project has been completedTitle: Energy Sustainable Florida CommunitiesPI: Richard Feiock, Co-PIs: Ivonne Audirac, Keith Ihlanfeldt - FSUDescription: The objective of NESC is to stimulate innovation and energy investments that will accelerateenergy savings by local governments by sharing best practices and organizing and managing large scalecollaboration and bulk buying projects.Florida State University has been working with U.S. DOE contributing surveys, research and outreachassistance to assist in efforts to promote investment, collaboration, and bulk purchasing by localgovernments that will achieve significant cost savings. This includes organizing NESC conference calls cohostedby hosted by FSU and DOE, conducting several surveys, and hosting a meeting of Florida localgovernment EECBG sub-awardees.These initial research efforts and conference calls have been successful in identifying broad interest in86