Storing Hydrogen Underground Could Boost Transportation, Energy Security February 26, 2015 1:54 pm Large-scale storage of low-pressure, gaseous hydrogen in salt caverns and other underground sites for transportation fuel and grid-scale energy applications... View Article
Predicting Pressure-Dependent Combustion Chemical Reactions February 25, 2015 5:25 pm Researchers at Sandia and Argonne national laboratories have demonstrated, for the first time, a method to successfully predict pressure-dependent chemical... View Article
National Rotor Testbed Rotor Design Integrated Airfoil Performance Results February 24, 2015 11:58 am The National Rotor Testbed (NRT) team is examining the effect of airfoil choice on the final design of the new... View Article
Sandia Wins DOE Geothermal Technologies Office Funding Award December 15, 2014 12:44 pm The DOE’s Geothermal Technologies Office (GTO) selected twelve collaborative enhanced geothermal systems (EGS) R&D projects that will use novel techniques... View Article
Sandian Receives the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America, South Region Technical Award December 12, 2014 1:29 pm The Illuminating Engineering Society (IES) builds on a century of excellence to create the premier lighting community dedicated to promoting... View Article
New Sandia Mirror Isn’t Shiny: Instead It Reflects Infrared Light Using a Metamaterial December 12, 2014 1:22 pm An optical wave’s reflection from metal arises from strong interactions between the optical electric field and the metal’s free carriers... View Article
“Bionic” Liquids from Lignin: Joint BioEnergy Institute Results Pave the Way for Closed-Loop Biofuel Refineries December 11, 2014 12:05 pm While ionic liquids (paired-ions salts that are liquid at room temperature) show great promise for liberating fermentable sugars from lignocellulose... View Article
Sandia Video Featured by DOE Bioenergy Technologies Office December 10, 2014 3:27 pm In July 2014, the DOE Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO) released the short documentary film Bioenergy: America’s Energy Future, which highlights... View Article
Developing a Fast-Running Turbine Wake Model December 4, 2014 6:32 pm As part of the international collaboration for DTOcean, a project aimed at accelerating the industrial development of ocean-energy power-generation knowledge... View Article