Latest Department of Energy Stories
Computer simulations revealing how methane and hydrogen pack into gas hydrates could enlighten alternative fuel production and carbon dioxide storage industries For some time, researchers have explored flammable ice for low-carbon or alternative fuel or as a place to store carbon dioxide. Now, a computer analysis of the ice and gas compound, known as a gas hydrate, reveals key details of its structure. The results show that hydrates can hold hydrogen at an optimal capacity of 5...
Dade Moeller announces that Wayne M. Glines has joined the Company as Senior Health Physicist. Glines adds more than 32 years of Federal health physics expertise to Dade Moeller’s well-known depth in this technical field and becomes the Company’s 37th Certified Health Physicist. Richland, WA (PRWEB) January 11, 2012 Nationally recognized health physics [radiation protection] firm Dade Moeller announces that Wayne M. Glines has joined the Company as Senior Health Physicist. Glines adds...
WASHINGTON, Jan. 6, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The Super-efficient Equipment and Appliance Deployment (SEAD) Initiative today announced the first SEAD Global Efficiency Medal competition, a global competition that aims to encourage the production and sale of more energy efficient electronics and appliances. SEAD is an initiative of the Clean Energy Ministerial (CEM), a high-level global forum launched by the Department of Energy and other leading governments in July 2010 to advance...
ROCKFORD, Ill., Dec. 7, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Rockford Solar Partners, LLC, a renewable energy development joint venture between Elgin-based Wanxiang America and Chicago-based New Generation Power, receives DOE and FAA environmental approval to proceed on America's largest commercial airport solar farm. Why the Chicago-Rockford International Airport for such as large 20 MW solar array? The airport has over 70 prime acres to install the solar panels, and Rockford is well known for its...
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 5, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- On Wednesday, December 7(th), from 7:00pm - 10:00pm, Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator, the Pew Charitable Trusts, the Southern California Gas Company and the L.A. Area Chamber of Commerce are co-hosting Fostering Cleantech Innovation in Los Angeles, which will feature an entertaining and informative panel discussion exploring the future of energy policy in America, and how Los Angeles can play a pivotal role in our nation's clean-energy...
Department of Energy Approved Solyndra and Other Projects Allegedly Without Required Oversight, Say Plaintiffs. Inland Empire, CA (PRWEB) December 04, 2011 On November 28, 2011, CAlifornians for Renewable Energy (CARE) and Michael Boyd filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, Case# 1:11-cv-02128; to challenge more than two dozen alleged federal loan guarantees illegally issued by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) under Section 1705 of the Energy Policy...
WEST HARTFORD, Conn., Dec. 2, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Legrand joined President Obama and Department of Energy officials in Washington, D.C. to announce that the company has joined the Better Building, Better Plants Presidential Leadership initiative to create American jobs through energy efficiency. Legrand is one of the world's largest manufacturers of electrical and data networking products for residential, commercial or industrial buildings. The company is one of just nine...
If we could make plant food from nitrogen the way nature does, we'd have a much greener method for manufacturing fertilizer – a process that requires such high temperatures and pressures that it consumes about 1.5 percent of the world's energy. Now scientists working at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have taken an important step towards understanding how nature performs this trick, by identifying a key atom that researchers had sought for more than a...
Call for "Truth in Energy" from Federal Government WASHINGTON, Oct. 31, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Leading energy and economic experts will gather on Capitol Hill this week for a conference to examine how the United States will adapt to an impending oil supply crisis. Most Americans are unaware of this emerging threat in part due to overly optimistic forecasts by the U.S Energy Information Administration (EIA) within the Department of Energy (DOE). Who: Association...
BLUE BELL, Pa., Oct. 25, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Unisys Corporation (NYSE: UIS) announced today that it has been awarded a contract to transition 5,000 users at the Department of Energy's Idaho National Laboratory (INL) to Google Apps for Government, a cloud-based email and collaboration solution. The move to the cloud-based platform is designed to allow INL employees to share information technology infrastructure, resources and applications while helping them to collaborate internally and...
