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Stop hyperventilating, say energy efficiency researchers

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A single advanced building control now in development could slash 18 percent -- tens of thousands of dollars -- off the overall annual energy bill of the average large office building, with no loss of comfort. Instead of running ventilation full blast whenever just a single person is in the room, customize the amount of ventilation based on the number of people actually present.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

Making sense of patterns in the Twitterverse

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

If you think keeping up with what's happening via Twitter, Facebook and other social media is like drinking from a fire hose, multiply that by seven billion -- and you'll have a sense of what Court Corley wakes up to every morning. Corley has created a powerful digital system, dubbed SALSA, capable of analyzing billions of tweets and other messages in just seconds, in an effort to discover patterns and make sense of all the information.

Funder: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Meeting: IEEE Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics

Salmonella uses protective switch during infection

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

For the first time, researchers have found a particular kind of molecular switch in the food poisoning bacteria Salmonella Typhimurium under infection-like conditions. This switch, using a process called S-thiolation, appears to be used by the bacteria to respond to changes in the environment during infection and might protect it from harm, researchers report this week online in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Early Edition.

Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Funder: National Institutes of Health

PNNL staff recognized for scientific accomplishments, moving technologies into the marketplace

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory honored more than 165 staff for their creation, development and commercialization of intellectual property at PNNL's annual Intellectual Property Commercialization Recognition & Rewards Program banquet.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

PNNL-developed injection molding process recognized with emerging technologies award

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

An injection-molding method that has potential to aid the aerospace, biomedical and auto industries by increasing the use of titanium and other durable, lightweight and corrosion-resistant metals has earned a national innovation award.

Funder: Department of Energy

Going green: Nation equipped to grow serious amounts of pond scum for fuel

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new analysis shows that the nation's land and water resources could likely support the growth of enough algae to produce up to 25 billion gallons of algae-based fuel a year in the United States, one-twelfth of the country's yearly needs. For the best places to produce algae for fuel, think hot, humid and wet. Especially promising are the Gulf Coast and the Southeastern seaboard.

Journal: Environmental Science & Technology
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

Not just blowing in the wind: Compressing air for renewable energy storage

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A comprehensive study into the potential for compressed air energy storage in the Pacific Northwest has identified two locations in Washington state that could store enough wind energy to power about 85,000 homes each month.

Funder: Bonneville Power Administration, DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

A solar booster shot for natural gas power plants

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Natural gas power plants can use about 20 percent less fuel when the sun is shining by injecting solar energy into natural gas with a new system being developed by the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.

Advancements are in the bag

DOE/Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory

EMSL recently collaborated with PepsiCo on improving the sustainability of chip bags using some of its more advanced analytical capabilities. As a result, PepsiCo honored the collaboration with one of its most prestigious R&D awards.

PNNL rolls out its clean energy tech at ARPA-E

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory will present its ARPA-E projects related to solar power, electric and natural gas vehicles, magnets, and heating and cooling at the 2013 Energy Innovation Summit, Feb. 25-27.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy
Meeting: 2013 Energy Innovation Summit

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