Report faces future energy challenges
Energy surety takes an integrated
approach to achieving safety, security,
reliability, recoverability and sustainability
objectives for the nation’s civilian and
military energy systems. Patterned after
Sandia’s application of surety principles
to weapons systems over several decades,
the approach includes choosing the best
mix of fuels and applying conservation
principles to all steps, starting with energy
production and ending with final use. The
approach even uses what would normally
be characterized as waste heat and mass.
Margie Tatro, director of Energy,
Infrastructure and Knowledge Systems
Center, Rush Robinett, a senior manager
in the center, and others in the center have
designed the new model and detailed it in
a recently-released internal report: Toward
an Energy Surety Future.
Tatro says that, in developing the
energy surety approach, “the sustainability
model was the most difficult to create
because sustainability was not a system requirement
in the original weapons system
surety approach.”