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1-May-2024

At the Climate READi workshop: Resilient power systems in the context of climate change

The Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory and other institutions joined industry stakeholders in exploring solutions for power grid climate resilience at the Climate READi Southeast workshop co-hosted by the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) and ORNL’s Water Power Program on April 10-11.

Funder: Electric Power Research Institute, ORNL Water Power Program

30-Apr-2024

Making more batteries with fewer materials

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

Argonne National Laboratory is working with Talon Metals to develop a process that could dramatically increase the number of electric vehicle batteries produced from mined nickel ore.

30-Apr-2024

New instrument could help scientists tailor plasma to produce more fusion heat

DOE/Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

Scientists at PPPL have finished building a new plasma measurement instrument that could aid efforts to boost the heat of fusion reactions in facilities known as tokamaks.

30-Apr-2024

Adaptable IO System delivers data for high-performance computing science at ORNL

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Since its initial development in 2008 at DOE’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the open-source Adaptable IO System framework has become an essential tool for high-performance computing, or HPC, simulations around the world with an ever-evolving array of features and users.

Funder: Advanced Scientific Computing Research

30-Apr-2024

A new paradigm for battery recycling

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

Argonne and Toyota are collaborating on a cutting-edge battery recycling process that retains the structure of valuable components. It shows great promise to make battery recycling much more environmentally friendly and profitable.

29-Apr-2024

How artificial intelligence can transform U.S. energy infrastructure

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

A groundbreaking report from the DOE’s national laboratories provides an ambitious framework for using artificial intelligence to accelerate U.S. clean energy deployment in the face of climate change.

29-Apr-2024

Better Plants program leads to carbon reduction, cost savings for US manufacturing

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Helping hundreds of manufacturing industries across the United States increase energy efficiency requires a balance of teaching and training, blended with scientific guidance and technical expertise. It’s a formula for success that researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory have been providing to the Department of Energy’s Better Plants program for more than a decade.

26-Apr-2024

Scientists are shaking up lithium extraction with a different kind of chemistry

DOE/Ames National Laboratory

Scientists at the Critical Materials Innovation (CMI) Hub, led by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames National Laboratory have developed a new process, mechanochemical extraction of lithium at low temperatures, or MELLT, to increase and diversify the supply of lithium in the United States.

25-Apr-2024

Argonne plays critical role in consortium to advance fuel cell and electrolyzer manufacturing

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

Improving the manufacturing of green hydrogen technologies is key to wide-spread industry adoption. Argonne is part of a consortium dedicated to scaling up, accelerating production and reducing the cost of producing hydrogen fuel cells and electrolyzers.

25-Apr-2024

Unconventional technology enhances composites important to automotive, aerospace and renewable energy industries

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed a method that demonstrates how fiber-reinforced polymer composite materials used in the automotive, aerospace and renewable energy industries can be made stronger and tougher to better withstand mechanical or structural stresses over time.

Journal: Advanced Science