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Public Release: 20-Nov-2009 Lehigh receives grant to reduce cost of carbon capture at coal-fired power plants
A US Department of Energy grant will help develop methods of recovering and reusing heat generated by the compression of CO2 in a carbon-capture system. The goal is to facilitate carbon capture and sequestration and limit the amount of CO2 emitted into the atmosphere by coal-fired power plants. Unlike other modeling studies, which focus on specific components of the carbon-capture system, the Lehigh researchers will look at the entire power plant.
US Department of Energy
Public Release: 19-Nov-2009 ORNL, Los Alamos pioneer new approach to assist scientists, farmers
Sustainable farming, initially adopted to preserve soil quality for future generations, may also play a role in maintaining a healthy climate, according to researchers at the US Department of Energy's Oak Ridge and Los Alamos national laboratories.
Public Release: 19-Nov-2009 Science Like humans, ants use bacteria to make their gardens grow
Leaf-cutter ants, which cultivate fungus for food, have many remarkable qualities.
US Department of Energy, National Science Foundation
Public Release: 19-Nov-2009 Science Amaizing: Corn genome decoded
In recent years, scientists have decoded the DNA of humans and a menagerie of creatures but none with genes as complex as a stalk of corn, the latest genome to be unraveled.
A team of scientists led by the Genome Center at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis published the completed corn genome in the Nov. 20 journal Science, an accomplishment that will speed efforts to develop better crop varieties to meet the world's growing demands for food, livestock feed and fuel.
National Science Foundation, US Department of Agriculture, US Department of Energy
Public Release: 18-Nov-2009 Physical Review Letters Proton's party pals may alter its internal structure
A recent experiment at the US Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility has found that a proton's nearest neighbors in the nucleus of the atom may modify the proton's internal structure.
US Department of Energy, National Science Foundation, South African National Research Foundation
Public Release: 18-Nov-2009 Berkeley Lab lends expertise to India to promote energy efficiency
India may rank only a distant fourth in terms of carbon dioxide emissions, behind China, the United States and Russia, but its rapid economic growth rate coupled with aging and inefficient energy infrastructure suggest dire environmental consequences if "business as usual" continues. That's why experts from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have been working to expand collaborations with India on energy efficiency.
Public Release: 18-Nov-2009 ORNL, partners helping scientists deal with data deluge
Vast amounts of information that could hold the key to breakthroughs in environmental research will be made readily available through a network created by Oak Ridge National Laboratory and partners.
Public Release: 17-Nov-2009 Nature New study confirms exotic electric properties of graphene
First, it was the soccer-ball-shaped molecules dubbed buckyballs. Then it was the cylindrically shaped nanotubes. Now, the hottest new material in physics and nanotechnology is graphene: a remarkably flat molecule made of carbon atoms arranged in hexagonal rings much like molecular chicken wire.
Microsoft Project Q, Defense Advanced Research Project Agency, US Department of Energy
Public Release: 17-Nov-2009
American Nuclear Society Meeting Advanced nuclear fuel sets global performance record
Idaho National Laboratory scientists have set a new world record with next-generation particle fuel for use in high temperature gas reactors.
US Department of Energy
Public Release: 16-Nov-2009 Oak Ridge 'Jaguar' supercomputer is World's fastest
An upgrade to a Cray XT5 high-performance computing system deployed by the Department of Energy has made the "Jaguar" supercomputer the world's fastest. Located at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Jaguar is the scientific research community's most powerful computational tool for exploring solutions to some of today's most difficult problems.
Public Release: 16-Nov-2009 New funding will stimulate alternative energy research
Initiatives to provide geothermal heating or power at the Pueblo of Jemez and the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology campus are receiving Los Alamos National Laboratory assistance, thanks to recent American Reinvestment and Recovery Act funding.
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
Public Release: 16-Nov-2009 Environmental Science & Technology Glimpsing a greener future
It's the year 2060, and 75 percent of drivers in the Greater Los Angeles area have hydrogen fuel cell vehicles that emit only water vapor.
US Department of Energy
Public Release: 15-Nov-2009 Chemosphere Tiny bubbles clean oil from water
Small amounts of oil leave a fluorescent sheen on polluted water. Oil sheen is hard to remove, even when the water is aerated with ozone or filtered through sand. Now, a University of Utah engineer has developed an inexpensive new method to remove oil sheen by repeatedly pressurizing and depressurizing ozone gas, creating microscopic bubbles that attack the oil so it can be removed by sand filters.
US Department of Energy, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Public Release: 13-Nov-2009 Science Berkeley researchers take the lead out of piezoelectrics
By applying epitaxial strain to thin films of bismuth ferrite, Berkeley Lab researchers have produced a lead-free alternative to the current crop of piezoelectric materials.
US Department of Energy
Public Release: 12-Nov-2009 LLNL licenses carbon nanotube technology to local company
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has exclusively licensed to Porifera Inc. of Hayward a carbon nanotube technology that can be used to desalinate water, and can be applied to other liquid based separations.
Public Release: 12-Nov-2009 Geophysical Research Letters Record high temperatures far outpace record lows across US
Spurred by a warming climate, daily record high temperatures occurred twice as often as record lows over the last decade across the continental United States, new research shows. The ratio of record highs to lows is likely to increase dramatically if emissions of greenhouse gases continue to climb.
National Science Foundation, US Department of Energy, Climate Central
Public Release: 11-Nov-2009 Nano Letters New nano color sorters from Molecular Foundry
Berkeley Lab researchers at the Molecular Foundry have created bowtie-shaped antennae that function as the first tunable nano color sorters, able to capture, filter and steer light at the nanoscale.
US Department of Energy
Public Release: 9-Nov-2009 National Academy report cites Ames Laboratory's strength in new materials research
The US is no longer the world leader in development of new crystalline materials, according to a report by the National Academy of Sciences. However, the report calls the US Department of Energy's national labs a bright spot, and Ames Laboratory is cited for new materials research and as a training ground for new researchers.
National Academy of Sciences
Public Release: 9-Nov-2009 Nature Materials New transparent insulating film could enable energy-efficient displays
Materials scientists have found a way to transform a chemical long used as an electrical conductor a thin film insulator potentially useful in transistor technology and in devices such as electronic books.
US Department of Energy, US Air Force Office of Scientific Research, National Science Foundation
An electron zap turns flimsy plastic into sturdy shrink wrap
If you buy a Butterball turkey this Thanksgiving, you have particle accelerators to thank for its freshness. For decades now the food industry has used particle accelerators to produce the sturdy, heat-shrinkable film that Butterballs come wrapped in.
The US electricity grid is strained to its limit, and the nation's windiest and sunniest places are rarely near cities that generate high demand. Finding ways to string new power lines across several states is a challenge for even the most creative regulators and energy analysts determined to increase America's use of renewable energy.
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