The nation’s land and water resources could likely support the growth of enough algae to produce up to 25 billion gallons of algae-based fuel a year in the United States, one-twelfth of the country’s yearly needs. [Full Story…]
A compressed air energy storage study has identified two locations in eastern Washington state that could store enough Northwest wind energy to power about 85,000 homes each month. [Full Story…]
A proposed research and testing facility near Moses Lake, Wash., would be used to test unmanned aircraft that could be used in search and rescue, weather data acquisition, agriculture crop management, avalanche control and snow pack analysis. [Full Story…]
A new, PNNL-developed system reduces carbon emissions and fuel usage at natural gas power plants by 20 percent by injecting solar energy into natural gas. [Full Story…]
Sriram Krishnamoorthy will be using new support from DOE to delve deeper into how parallel computing solves problems and improve future high performance computing. [Full Story…]
Recognizing his international leadership in energy materials research, the American Ceramic Society has elected Jeffry Stevenson of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory as a Fellow of the Society. [Full Story…]
The Department of Homeland Security and DOE’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory issued a report that summarizes an extensive list of commercially available, hand-portable biodetection technologies that can help end-users such as firefighters, police officers and HazMat workers find the right technology. [Full Story…]
Nigel Browning, a leading scientist in electron microscopy at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, has been elected a Fellow of the Microscopy Society of America, recognizing his contributions to the advancement of the science. [Full Story…]
New findings show how these Shewanella bacteria use three proteins to breathe the iron in this mineral much like people breathe oxygen. In doing so, they produce an electric current, enticing scientists to study them as possible biological batteries. [Full Story…]
A licensing agreement may help speed up adoption of plug-in electric vehicles. [Full Story…]
