Bay-Area National Labs Team to Tackle Long-Standing Automotive Hydrogen-Storage Challenge October 16, 2015 11:33 pm Published by Admin Comments Off on Bay-Area National Labs Team to Tackle Long-Standing Automotive Hydrogen-Storage Challenge Sandia will lead the tri-lab Hydrogen Materials Advanced Research Consortium (HyMARC: Sandia, Lawrence Livermore National LaboratoryLLNL], and Lawrence Berkeley National... View Article
SWiFT Facility Prepared for More-Efficient Operations & Advanced Turbine-Turbine Wake-Interaction-Control Research October 16, 2015 11:19 pm Published by Admin Comments Off on SWiFT Facility Prepared for More-Efficient Operations & Advanced Turbine-Turbine Wake-Interaction-Control Research This past summer, activities at the DOE/SNL Scaled Wind-Farm Technology (SWiFT) facility picked up in preparation for an enhanced, more-efficient... View Article
Sandians Recognized in Environmental Science & Technology’s Best Paper Competition October 1, 2015 4:59 pm Published by Admin Comments Off on Sandians Recognized in Environmental Science & Technology’s Best Paper Competition A paper by Vince Tidwell, Barbie Moreland, and Katie Zemlick (all currently in or formerly members of Sandia’s Earth Systems... View Article
CRF Researchers Are Source for 2015 QTR Sidebar Content October 1, 2015 4:24 pm Published by Admin Comments Off on CRF Researchers Are Source for 2015 QTR Sidebar Content On September 10th, Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz released the second Quadrennial Technology Review (QTR 2015), which examines the most promising... View Article
Sandia’s Supercritical Carbon-Dioxide/Brayton-Cycle Laboratory Signs Important MOU with Industry Partners September 23, 2015 11:14 pm Published by Admin Comments Off on Sandia’s Supercritical Carbon-Dioxide/Brayton-Cycle Laboratory Signs Important MOU with Industry Partners Sandia and eight other companies and research organizations* will collaborate to advance a distributed power system that can produce cleaner,... View Article
Sandia’s Algae Nutrient Recycling Project Is a Triple Win September 23, 2015 7:52 pm Published by Admin Comments Off on Sandia’s Algae Nutrient Recycling Project Is a Triple Win Nitrogen and phosphate nutrients are among the largest costs in cultivating algae for biofuel production. Sandia molecular biologists (in Sandia’s... View Article
Stion Commissions PV System at Sandia Regional Test Center September 23, 2015 7:35 pm Published by Admin Comments Off on Stion Commissions PV System at Sandia Regional Test Center Thin-film solar module manufacturer Stion has commissioned a 12 kW fixed latitude ground-mounted photovoltaic (PV) system at the DOE’s New... View Article
Version 24 of the Composite Materials Database Now Available for Download September 23, 2015 7:17 pm Published by Admin Comments Off on Version 24 of the Composite Materials Database Now Available for Download Wind-turbine blade growth continues to have the largest impact on energy capture and levelized cost of energy (LCOE) reduction. While... View Article
Wave-Energy/-Device Modeling: Developing A 1:17 Scaled Model September 23, 2015 6:54 pm Published by Admin Comments Off on Wave-Energy/-Device Modeling: Developing A 1:17 Scaled Model Many theoretical studies show that additional energy can be captured through control of the power-conversion chains (PCCs) of resonant wave-energy... View Article
New Small Business Voucher Pilot Opens September 23, 2015 4:53 pm Published by Admin Comments Off on New Small Business Voucher Pilot Opens The highly anticipated Department of Energy (DOE) Small Business Vouchers (SBV) pilot opens for business today. Through the pilot, small businesses... View Article