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Current Projects

• Testing PV and CPV Systems at the Nevada Regional Test Center
• Appliance Testing with Blended Natural Gas and Hydrogen with Southwest Gas and Gas Technologies Institute
• Precision Angle Measurement System for Enhanced Heliostat Performance 

Completed Projects

Nuclear Energy 

• Design of a Small Modular Reactor of Thorium Molten Salt

Interdisciplinary

Energy Efficient Homes

• Villa Trieste Homes: Building Reduced-Energy Homes in the Southwest U.S. Desert (2008 – 2013)
• Zero Energy Starter Home

Renewable Hydrogen

• Hydrogen Filling Station (2004 to 2010)
• Hydrogen / Electric Hybrid Bus

Solar Energy

• Amonix Integrated High Concentration Photovoltaic (IHCPV) System
• Concentrated Solar Power Generation Systems: The SAIC Dish
• Development of PV Systems for Remote Environmental Monitoring
• Eldorado Solar Trough Site
• Hybrid Solar Lighting System
• Regenerative Weir-Type Solar Still
• SES Dish Modifications
• Solar-Powered Cart
• System Analysis of Storage in Trough Solar Thermal Power Plants
• Water Heating Studies Using Solar Power
• An Air-Cooled Condenser for Desert Climates: Design and Experiments
• Development of Gas Bearings for Supercritical CO2 Recompression Brayton Cycle
• Development of a Magnetic Shaft Coupling for Dish CSP - sCO2 Power Generation System

Wind Power

• Wind Generation in Nye County, Nevada (2008)