Mag Lab by the Numbers
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Number of Mag Lab employees1
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360
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Percentage of employees with PhDs
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36
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Number of countries represented by Mag Lab staff
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50
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Total investment in infrastructure from all budget sources, through 2008
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$192 million
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Annual operating budget
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$54 million
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Percentage of budget funded by the National Science Foundation and other grants
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80
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Percentage funded by the state of Florida
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20
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Amount of return to state of Florida projected for each dollar invested in the lab (2006-2016)
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$5.17
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Square footage (all three branches)
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440,000
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Helium and nitrogen bill2 for the year 2008 at the lab's Tallahassee headquarters
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$1 million
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Electric bill for the year 2008 at the lab's Tallahassee headquarters
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$7.2 million
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Percentage of that bill attributable to magnet use
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72
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Percentage of the electricity provided to all Tallahassee residences and businesses that is consumed by the Magnet Lab
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7 |
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Power supply, in megawatts, available at the lab's Tallahassee facility |
56
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Capacity, in megawatts, of the motor generator that powers the pulsed magnets at the lab's Los Alamos National Laboratory site |
1,430
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Average monthly electricity use, in kilowatthours, of average U.S. home |
920
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Average monthly electricity use, in kilowatthours, of Mag Lab's DC Field Facility in Tallahassee (2008) |
4,400
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Magnetic field, measured in tesla3, generated by the lab's hybrid magnet, which creates the most powerful sustained magnetic field in the world
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45
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Weight, in tons, of this magnet
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35
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Miles of superconducting wire coiling through this magnet
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4
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Amount of power, in megawatts, required to operate this magnet
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33
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Amount of time, in weeks, required to cool the magnet down from room temperature to its operating temperature of -452°F (-269°C)
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6
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Amount of chilled water, in liters per second, required to keep the magnet cool
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400
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Speed (in mph) at which chilled water is run through resistive magnets to keep them cool
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45
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Magnetic field strength, in tesla, of the strongest non-destructive magnet in the world, a "multi-shot" magnet located at our Pulsed Field Facility at Los Alamos National Laboratory
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90
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Amount of pressure found 12 feet under water, in pounds per square inch (psi)
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6
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Amount of pressure (in psi) sustained by the lab's 90 tesla multi-shot magnet
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200,000
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Length of time, in milliseconds, that the 90 tesla multi-shot is operated, so as to avoid an explosion (One millisecond = 1/1,000 of a second)
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15
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Length of time, in microseconds, that the lab's 300 tesla single turn magnet is operated, before exploding – as it is designed to do! (One microsecond = 1/1,000,000 of a second)
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6
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Coldest temperature ever recorded on Earth (in nature)
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-89°C
(-129°F)
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Coldest man-made temperature at the Magnet Lab (in our High B/T Facility at the University of Florida)
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-272°C
(-459°F)4
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Number of times per second that hydrogen atoms spin in our 900 MHz NMR magnet
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900,000,000
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Number (approximate) of scientists from across the globe using the Mag Lab facilities every year
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1,000
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Number of visitors attending the Mag Lab's annual Open House (2009)
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5,573
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Number of students taught in their own classrooms every year through the Magnet Lab's educational outreach program
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8,800
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Number of patents awarded to the lab (through 2007)
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23
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Number of world records
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12
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Mag Lab by the Numbers