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Providing international solutions

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

As U.S. researchers focus on domestic energy issues, they could easily miss the century's dominant energy challenge: to increase energy supplies for the world's growing population without contributing further to environmental degradation. Accomplishing this monumental task would represent the most fundamental change in the world's energy production since the Industrial Revolution.

Aid for the auto industry

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Since the 1970s the U.S. government has supported research and development designed to help Americans use energy more efficiently. Because a large portion of American oil imports is used for transportation, the Department of Energy makes substantial investments at ORNL in several technologies designed both to improve fuel efficiency and reduce carbon emissions into the atmosphere.

Multiple roads to the hydrogen car

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

In his 2003 State of the Union address, President George Bush communicated an ambitious vision that the United States will lead the world in developing clean, hydrogen-powered automobiles.

Energy prophets: US oil dependence

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

U.S. oil imports are at an all-time high, accounting for approximately 57% of domestic consumption. Americans today import some 12 million barrels per day at a cost that in 2004 skyrocketed above $50 a barrel.

Energy efficiency: Stretching America's resources

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

The United States and the world face enormous energy challenges. Petroleum prices are at record highs with no end in sight. The emergence of China and India as major contributors to global demand brings new urgency to political and economic concerns about oil dependence.

Criminals are target of ORNL advanced communications system

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Residents of small communities could be served and protected better because of a communications system being proposed by researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

Super-heavy nuclei take shape in 'extreme' new theories

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Advanced computational methods and supporting experiments, including work performed at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, are giving scientists a better understanding of the nature and stability of superheavy nuclei and the heaviest elements that lie beyond the borders of the periodic table.

DOE gives UT-Battelle highest performance rating for 2004

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

The Department of Energy has awarded UT-Battelle an overall performance rating of "Outstanding" for the company's management of Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The rating is the highest awarded by DOE and comes after an evaluation of ORNL's performance from October 2003 through September 2004.

ORNL Director Wadsworth named to National Academy of Engineering

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

Jeffrey Wadsworth, director of the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering.

Combating blindness is vision of UT, ORNL project

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Peer-Reviewed Publication

Millions of people at risk of becoming blind could one day be helped by an Oak Ridge National Laboratory technology originally intended to understand semiconductor defects.