The pursuit of Planet Nine -a hypothesized Neptune-like giant that some scientists believe may be cruising along a remote orbit in our solar system-can now go door-to-door. A new NASA-launched citizen science project seeks the public’s help in reviewing more than a million animations to identify moving space objects that could be new discoveries.
Category: Department of Energy
New Materials Could Turn Water into the Fuel of the Future
Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the California Institute of Technology have-in just two years-nearly doubled the number of materials known to have potential for use in solar fuels. They did so by developing a process that promises to speed the discovery of commercially viable generation of solar fuels that could replace coal, oil, and other fossil fuels.
Coders to the rescue for NASA’s Earth science data
On Feb. 11, the white stone buildings on UC Berkeley’s campus radiated with unfiltered sunshine. The sky was blue, the campanile was chiming.
ORNL, Chattanooga Electric Power Board Test the Role of Sensors in Grid Innovation
February 8, 2017 – With a fiber-optic network that provides Chattanooga residents and businesses with exceptional high-speed communications, the city’s Electric Power Board provides the US Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory with an ideal testbed for smart grid research. With support provided by DOE’s Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability , an effort was launched in 2014 to advance the state of the power grid in Tennessee.
Supercomputing, experiment combine for first look at magnetism of real nanoparticle
Barely wider than a strand of human DNA, magnetic nanoparticles — such as those made from iron and platinum atoms — are promising materials for next-generation recording and storage devices like hard drives. Building these devices from nanoparticles should increase storage capacity and density, but understanding how magnetism works at the level of individual atoms is critical to getting the best performance.
Trump likely to see the birth of an exascale system
President Donald Trump’s administration has outlined some of its agenda, and has said nothing as far as supercomputing is concerned. Will it participate in the global race to develop an exascale supercomputer? It’s been silent on this.
How the Department of Energy plans to clean up toxic Santa Susana Field lab
Visitors make their way by the remains of VTS-1 at the Santa Susana Field Lab Thursday, August 12, 2010. Many community members and former Rocketdyne employees were on hand for the tour.
There’s a WMD Hiding In America’s Infrastructure, And It’s Startlingly Easy To Set Off
The U.S. power grid is vulnerable to cyber-attack, and that could be just as damaging as a weapon of mass destruction, according to a major Department of Energy report. In the second installment of the Quadrennial Energy Review , the DOE urged more investment in cyber-defense while asking lawmakers for emergency powers to deter imminent cyber-attacks.
3 Questions for Rick Perry, Trump’s Pick to Lead the Um…
Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry meets with president-elect Donald Trump at Trump Tower December 12, 2016 in New York. Rick Perry is President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Energy, a government agency that seemingly annoyed Perry so much that, in 2011, he boasted that he would abolish it, if elected president.
Trofim Lysenko, Patron Saint of Obama’s Energy Dept.
Readers who aren’t part of the “settled science” warmist community should probably keep in mind how the “Global Warming” science became “settled.” Don’t think in terms of universal application and agreement, like the law of gravity, but more in terms of a coup.
PNNL shares the gift of innovation
It has been said that invention is the process of turning money into ideas and innovation is the process of turning ideas into money. At the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, we do both.