A national panel of experts on the topic gathered Monday at the 235th National Meeting in New Orleans to present a comprehensive overview of the current status, limitations, and future challenges of several significant renewable energy sources.
Despite oil prices that hover around $100 a barrel, it may take at least 10 or more years of intensive research and development to reduce the cost of solar energy to levels competitive with petroleum, according to an authority on the topic.
Sandia research is having significant impact on the emerging bioenergy arena through its work in protein purification and analysis. Recent developments in this technology space are recognized in the 2008 Volume 8 edition of Lab on a Chip - a leading microfluidics scientific journal - which features a Sandia paper on its front cover.
According to a new study by MTechnology, Inc., the Active Power flywheel-based CleanSource® 300 UPS (uninterruptible power supply) system is seven times less likely to fail versus a conventional, double conversion UPS system with batteries during a short power outage.
Researchers in the Power Sources R+D group at Sandia National Laboratories have been driving nails into batteries, heating them to extreme temperatures, overcharging them, and putting them into some of the most adverse conditions possible to see how much abuse they can take before they blow up.
Researchers at Missouri University of Science and Technology are developing a portable, hydrogen-generating power system to power everything from laptops to communications gear for soldiers in the battlefield.
On April 11 and 12, 2008, the MIT Energy Conference: Technology, Policy and Entrepreneurship will offer a peek into the future with distinguished panelists, cutting-edge research, networking opportunities, and hands-on displays.
As Presidential hopefuls outline plans for housing relief packages to slow mounting foreclosures, some Americans have taken matters into their own hands.
Sandia National Laboratories Fleet Services Department has exceeded fuel and energy efficiency standards set by the Department of Energy, one of a few organizations to do so in the nuclear weapons complex.
Nuclear regulators, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) and the Environment Agency (EA), today announced that the first step of 'Generic Design Assessment'(GDA) carried out on four designs submitted for new nuclear power stations had found no shortfalls at this stage
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