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The US Department of Energy (DOE), the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and General Motors (GM) have just set aside $2.1 million for a three-year grant destined to researchers investigating how to create a fuel cell capable of powering a car for 300 miles on a single charge.
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27 January 2012
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ECOtality’s long-time involvement in federal projects has brought it a $26.4 million (about €19.6 million) contract by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to conduct the agency’s Advanced Vehicle Testing and Evaluation (AVTE) project.During a five-year period, the project is to provide key data for t... |
10 October 2011
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The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has recently announced it has finalized several loan guarantees that are meant to support the development of solar power projects in the State of California.Taken separately, a $1.237 billion (€908 million) loan guarantee to support the California Valley Solar Ranch Project, s... |
3 October 2011
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In a move set to make it one of the world leaders in producing wind power, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced it has decided to invest no less than $43 million over a period if five years in 41 related projects across 20 states.The money are to be used to speed technical innovations, lower costs, and... |
19 September 2011
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The US Department of Energy (DOE) has issued final energy efficiency standards for home refrigerators and freezers, which is expected to deliver more than $200 in electricity bill savings for the typical consumer over the lifetime of the refrigerator. Nationally, consumers are expected to save more than $21 bil... |
16 September 2011
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The U.S. Department of Energy has recently selected six project designed to develop technologies that will lower the cost of producing electricity in integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) power plants. The DOE will grant $14 million in total funding to the respective projects.This is claimed to be part of Oba... |
16 September 2011
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The Energy Department announced it is offering its financial support to what will be the nation’s first utility-scale deployment of Abengoa’s latest Solar Collector Assembly (SCA). The DOE has finalized a $1.2 billion loan guarantee for the development of the Mojave Solar Project (MSP) in San Bernardino C... |
15 September 2011
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Efforts to create working hydrogen cars have largely failed due to the fact that there are not real options when it comes to storing the chemical for prolonged use. Now, investigators in the United States have developed a new nanomaterial that they believe might be able to solve this predicament.
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14 September 2011
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A group of experts at the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) announce that they have finished designing and constructing a mobile atmospheric research facility that is based on two heavily-modified trucks.
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8 September 2011
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The US Department of Energy (DOE)’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) just inaugurated a new research facility, whose main purpose is to boost the country's leadership in biofuel research. The installation is dedicated to studying all aspects of converting biomass to fuel. The new center... |
19 August 2011
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Physicists with the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) announce that they were recently able to develop a series of micro-robots that are capable of assembling themselves into more complex structures. The small devices have a diameter of just 500 microns, or about half a millimeter... |
9 August 2011
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On Thursday, June 2, a large crowd gathered in the Aquatic Park section of the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), where it participated at the inauguration of the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis (JCAP)-North facility. The new installation joins the Pa... |
7 June 2011
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Two researchers from the US Department of Energy (DOE) Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) propose that tiny black holes may be capable of creating the gravitational equivalent of atoms. This may be possible as the dense objects begin to capture particles whizzing around them. Neutral atoms could be captured around su... |
4 May 2011
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Over the centuries, experts have noticed that only certain clouds produce massive amounts of rain, while others produce only limited or moderate precipitations. Experts with the American space agency and colleagues from other research groups are coordinating a large scale effort to clear up this mystery.NASA is appar... |
28 April 2011
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A new analysis is challenging widely held beliefs that China's energy demands will continue to increase sharply for the foreseeable future. Most experts believe that, at the end of the century, the country will still need more power plants, but the new analysis suggests that this is not the case. Investigators a... |
28 April 2011
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Over the past 20 years or so, a multitude of massive particle accelerators have been built, culminating with the Large Hadron Collider's 27-kilometer-long tunnels. But the future of particle physics is on the tabletop, not deep underground, say researchers in the United States. Machines like the LHC are becoming... |
18 March 2011
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According to officials at the US Department of Energy (DOE), the Tevatron particle accelerator, the most famous in the United States, will be closed down this September. The announcement was made on January 10.Physicists at the DOE Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), in Batavia, Illinois, had hoped to u... |
20 January 2011
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At this point, in order to create highly-efficient, top-quality magnets, manufacturers need to use a class of chemicals known as rare-Earth elements (REE), supplies of which are starting to become unavailable. But new composite materials currently being developed could eliminate this need entirely.REE are not a rare ... |
20 January 2011
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Officials at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) announce that the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the most powerful particle accelerator in the world, has just finished its mission of colliding protons head-on at high energy levels.This was the first record-setting run that the facility conducted sinc... |
4 November 2010
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Experts in the United States are very serious about obtaining nuclear fusion, a method of obtaining energy that would dwarf the output of all others. The National Ignition Facility was designed for this very purpose, and work there is progressing fast. The issue with this endeavor is that experts want to obtain contr... |
4 November 2010
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The United States will most likely enjoy the benefits of housing the second-most powerful particle accelerator in the world for another three years, say a group of physicists that recently made the recommendation. The panel was to decide whether to propose an extension to the Tevatron program, or if they should recom... |
28 October 2010
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Physicists in the US announce the discovery of six new isotopes, which belong to a group of superheavy chemical elements numbered 104 through 114. This achievement will lead to a better understanding of the nuclear shell structure theory, scientists say.The work was conducted at the US Department of Energy's (DO... |
27 October 2010
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A collaboration of national departments in the United States has agreed to allot more than $5 million in grant money to research dealing with furthering the use of renewable energy in the nation. The money were alloted to investigators conducting studies into offshore and onshore wind power generation, as well as in ... |
27 October 2010
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Last year, a massive scandal erupted when PETA learned that NASA was planning to conduct a series of radiation experiments on unsuspecting monkeys. The faith of the experiments is now uncertain. These studies were to be conducted at the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), with d... |
20 October 2010
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A group of investigators from the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) announces the creation of a new design that would swipe away some of the obstacles preventing the creation of improved rechargeable batteries.The team managed this feat by producing new layouts for sodi... |
12 October 2010
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An official report detailing the factors that impact the implementation of wind farm technologies in the United States has been released by the NREL on October 7. The announcement was made by Steven Chu, who is the US Energy Secretary. He says that experts at the Department of Energy's (DOE) National Renewable E... |
8 October 2010
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The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced that it awarded a $1.175 million grant to the Bonner Nuclear Laboratory, for conducting research into hot, high-density nuclear matter. The facility, which is located at, and is operated by the Rice University, conducts investigations into the nature of the smallest partic... |
8 October 2010
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A team of investigators may have just discovered a class of power-storing materials that may easily exceed the benchmarks set by the DOE in terms of hydrogen storage. The US Department of Energy is intent in funding research into hydrogen storage, because this technology is what will make the cars of the future possi... |
1 October 2010
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Experts at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, who are in charge of building the next NASA rover that will go on Mars, have just received one of the key elements of the new robot – the ChemCam. This is an instrument of a class that has never flown to space before. It will go on the Mars Science Laboratory rover... |
22 September 2010
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For many years, researchers at the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have been renowned around the country for their involvement in battery studies,. Physicists here have studied everything from advanced power storage devices to fuel cells, and this made them th... |
30 July 2010
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Officials at the US Department of Energy (DOE) announce that the Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) will host a number of scientific projects this year, which will all use the facility's world-class supercomputer. Five ANL experts will be leading the project, which together won more than 200 million processor-hou... |
29 July 2010
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Yesterday, the US Deputy Secretary of Energy, Daniel Poneman, announced that the federal government has just allotted more than $122 million for the creation of an Energy Innovation Hub. The organization will be responsible for researching and developing new fuels, using nothing more than sunlight. The money, which w... |
23 July 2010
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Scientists from the Stanford University say that they have discovered a new way to look for the origin of superconductivity. This is a state that certain materials can take, in which they conduct electricity flawlessly, without allowing for losses to occur. The characteristic is very sought-for in scientific circles,... |
18 May 2010
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A collaboration between two institutions at the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) recently managed to produce the most detailed images of nanoparticle crystallization taking place in real time. Physicists from the Advanced Photon Source (APS) worked together with colleagues from t... |
18 May 2010
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Officials at the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) announce that authorities have agreed to fund planned upgrades for the research facility's Advanced Photon Source (APS). This particular instrument can be used for a variety of scientific investigations, including studies in ... |
4 May 2010
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Four separate research projects have recently been awarded grant money under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, in order to conduct investigations into new methods of producing electricity in a clean, environmentally-friendly manner. The $8.6 million have been awarded to teams at the US Department of... |
4 May 2010
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While constructing a wind farm may not seem overly complex, the challenges associated with placing turbines at an off-shore location are monumental. Foundations need to be set in place at the correct location, and secured tightly to the bottom of the sea or ocean. Then, the machines themselves need to be constructed ... |
3 May 2010
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Representatives from the US Department of Energy (DOE) announce that they have just awarded a $2.5 million grant to the College of Technology, at the University of Houston. The money will be used to create a new type of training program, which will seek to train a small, highly-specialized unit of technicians in how ... |
14 April 2010
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Experts at the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Sandia National Laboratories, in Livermore, are about to get a gift only scientists appreciate. Their existing Combustion Research Facility (CRF) will be augmented by another building, the Combustion Research Computation and Visualization (CRCV) station. The groundb... |
23 March 2010
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A group of experts from the US National Science Foundation (NSF), the Department of Energy (DOE) and the Department of Agriculture (USDA) held a webcast yesterday, announcing that they would be opening up a joint research project aimed at developing better climate simulations. The end goal of the Decadal and Regional... |
23 March 2010
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Over the past couple of decades, astronomers and astrophysicists have been searching for the elusive dark matter with everything at their disposal. From special satellites to advanced underground facilities buried deep within disused mines, detectors for this form of matter are nearly everywhere. In spite of these ef... |
16 March 2010
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The Long Island, New York-based Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) is undoubtedly one of the most advanced particle accelerators in the world. It produces enormously-significant science, and its reputation now stands to gain from a new breakthrough achieved recently. Physicists working with the device managed to ... |
5 March 2010
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Using the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) machine at the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), a team of researchers managed to create an extreme state of matter. Their test results produced a form of matter that was about four trillions of degrees Celsius, a temperature ab... |
3 March 2010
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For many years, based on solid scientific evidence, researchers have believed that comets were formed in the outer fringes of the solar system, out of material that also created the planets and the moons billions of years ago. This theory seemed to be very sound, and therefore gained wide acceptance among astronomers... |
26 February 2010
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Many physicists today believe that the elementary particles known as neutrons may hold the key to a wide range of improvements in many fields of science nowadays. This may seem a bit off for those of you who know that these particles are neutrally-charged, slightly bigger than a proton, and inconsequential in most ca... |
25 February 2010
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When Albert Einstein proposed his now-famous Theory on General Relativity, the world of physics entered a frenzy that many say has yet to quell. The science that was proposed at the time suggested simple correlations, but in a way that carried tremendous implications for how our Universe is organized, and how it func... |
18 February 2010
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Clouds are some of the most common features in nature. Almost every time you look at the sky, you see one of many types of clouds that form at various heights and have different behaviors. These atmospheric structures can be a sign of rain, or of incoming clear weather, and they can also be found on other planets, wh... |
17 February 2010
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Researchers at the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have recently been able to exploit a phenomenon that has for a long time stopped electronics manufacturers from doing what they do best in order to create a new class of advanced chemical and biological sensors. The new instr... |
13 February 2010
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The Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) program is apparently one of the most promising such endeavors in the United States today. As part of it, for 2010, the US Department of Energy (DOE) has alloted more than 1.6 billion supercomputing hours on its machines to about 69 cutti... |
29 January 2010
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Scientists at the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) announce the development of a new computer algorithm that allows for them to visualize the reactions that go on inside a nuclear reactor in finer detail than ever before. The neutron transport code UNIC, which is still under deve... |
25 January 2010
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