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Sandia Labs benchmark helps wind industry measure success

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Sandia National Laboratories published the second annual 2012 Wind Plant Reliability Benchmark on Monday, and the results should help the nation's growing wind industry benchmark its performance, understand vulnerabilities and enhance productivity.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

Sandia builds Android-based network to study cyber disruptions

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

As part of ongoing research to help prevent and mitigate disruptions to computer networks on the Internet, researchers at Sandia National Laboratories in California have turned their attention to smartphones and other hand-held computing devices. Sandia cyber researchers linked together 300,000 virtual hand-held computing devices running the Android operating system so they can study large networks of smartphones and find ways to make them more reliable and secure.

Climate change cripples forests

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Combine the tree-ring growth record with historic information, climate records and projections of future climate trends, and you get a grim picture for the future of trees in the southwestern United States. That's the word from a team of scientists from Los Alamos National Laboratory, the US Geological Survey, University of Arizona, and others. In the warmer and drier Southwest of the near future, widespread tree mortality will cause forest and species distributions to change substantially.

Journal: Nature Climate Change
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

Sandia gains national recognition for sustainable energy management

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Grant and Award Announcement

Sandia National Laboratories has received a 2012 Department of Energy Sustainability Award for energy management of its computer servers.

Sandia probability maps help sniff out food contamination

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Uncovering the sources of fresh food contamination could become faster and easier thanks to analysis done at Sandia National Laboratories' National Infrastructure Simulation and Analysis Center (NISAC).

Journal: International Journal of Critical Infrastructures
Funder: Department of Homeland Security

Sandia experts help when sinkhole opens up in Louisiana

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Business Announcement

The US Geological Survey turned to Sandia National Laboratories for help when the earth opened up last month near Bayou Corne, La.

Sandia shows why common explosive sometimes fails

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The explosive PETN has been around for a century and is used by everyone from miners to the military, but it took new research by Sandia National Laboratories to begin to discover key mechanisms behind what causes it to fail at small scales.

Sandia shows monitoring brain activity during study can help predict test performance

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Research at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, N.M., has shown it's possible to predict how well people will remember information by monitoring their brain activity while they study.

Dry-run experiments verify key aspect of Sandia nuclear fusion concept

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Magnetically imploded tubes, intended to help produce controlled nuclear fusion at scientific "break-even" energies or better within the next few years, have functioned successfully in preliminary tests.

Journal: Physical Review Letters
Funder: National Nuclear Security Administration, Sandia Laboratory-Directed Research and Development Program

Sandia, OurEnergyPolicy.org release 'Goals of Energy Policy' poll results

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

US energy policy should simultaneously pursue security of its energy supply, economic stability and reduced environmental impacts, says a national poll of energy professionals jointly prepared by Sandia National Laboratories and OurEnergyPolicy.org. The findings of the national poll, "The Goals of Energy Policy," show that the vast majority -- more than 85 percent -- of the 884 energy professionals surveyed prefer policy making that pursues all three goals at once.

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