New Report Describes Joint Opportunities for Natural Gas and Hydrogen Fuel-Cell Vehicle Markets March 6, 2015 10:39 am Sandia, supported by the DOE’s Vehicle Technologies and Fuel Cell Technologies offices (within the DOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable... View Article
Sandians Participate in 46th Annual American Geophysical Union (AGU) Conference March 5, 2015 7:00 pm Fifty-six Sandians from ten Centers joined more than 22,000 geoscience professionals, students, and academics at the December AGU Fall Meeting.... View Article
Resolving a Key to How Stars Transmit Energy March 5, 2015 7:00 pm Sandia physicist Jim Bailey observes a wire array that will heat foam to roughly 4 million degrees until it emits... View Article
Sandians Win ‘Best Paper’ Award at Photovoltaic Conference in Japan March 4, 2015 6:53 pm A research team that included Sandians received a Best Paper Award for their work “Photovoltaic System Model Calibration Using Monitored... View Article
Sandia Research on PV Arc-Fault Detection Submitted for US Patent March 4, 2015 6:52 pm Sandia National Laboratories/Tigo Energy researchers recently submitted an application for a US patent related to research on arc-fault detection and... View Article
PV Plant Performance Technical Briefing Published in PV Power Tech March 4, 2015 6:51 pm The state of the art in PV system monitoring is relatively simplistic, relying either on comparisons of outputs between various... View Article
Recent Sandia Secure, Scalable Microgrid Advanced Controls Research Accomplishments March 3, 2015 7:24 pm A recently completed Grand Challenge Laboratory-Directed Research and Development project resulted in a secure, scalable microgrid (SSM) research facility that... View Article
The Quest for Efficiency in Thermoelectric Nanowires February 26, 2015 4:51 pm Sandia researchers say better materials and manufacturing techniques for nanowires could allow car makers to harvest power from the heat... View Article
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