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New Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction Goals and Technology Incentive Reforms

Today, President Bush announced a new national goal to stop the growth in U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by 2025. This new goal marks a major step forward in America's ongoing efforts to address climate change.

16 Apr 2008

2008 Goldman Environmental Prize Recipients are a Group of Fearless Grassroots Leaders

The 2008 Goldman Environmental Prize recipients are a group of fearless grassroots leaders taking on government and corporate interests and working to improve the environment and living conditions for people in their communities.

14 Apr 2008

Bringing Minds Together to Combat Global Problem

Leading energy specialists from MIT, other institutions, industry and government will be gathering at MIT this Friday and Saturday to map out the future of energy, focusing on technologies that are capable of scaling up to provide major contributions to the world's energy needs.

10 Apr 2008

Wind Farm Project Expected to be Online by 2011

Dominion announced today plans to develop a 300-megawatt wind generation facility in Central Illinois. Prairie Fork Wind Farm would feature 150 to 200 turbines constructed across approximately 25,000 acres in Christian and Montgomery counties, about 25 miles southeast of Springfield.

10 Apr 2008

Climate Change have Spurred New Generations of Scientists to Search for Alternative Energy Sources

A national panel of experts on the topic gathered Monday at the 235th National Meeting in New Orleans to present a comprehensive overview of the current status, limitations, and future challenges of several significant renewable energy sources.

9 Apr 2008

Major Technological Challenges Must Be Overcome to Make Solar Energy Competitive

Despite oil prices that hover around $100 a barrel, it may take at least 10 or more years of intensive research and development to reduce the cost of solar energy to levels competitive with petroleum, according to an authority on the topic.

7 Apr 2008

Research Having Significant Impact on Bioenergy Arena

Sandia research is having significant impact on the emerging bioenergy arena through its work in protein purification and analysis. Recent developments in this technology space are recognized in the 2008 Volume 8 edition of Lab on a Chip - a leading microfluidics scientific journal - which features a Sandia paper on its front cover.

7 Apr 2008

Study Examines Reliability of UPS Systems and Offers Approaches to Improving System Reliability

According to a new study by MTechnology, Inc., the Active Power flywheel-based CleanSource® 300 UPS (uninterruptible power supply) system is seven times less likely to fail versus a conventional, double conversion UPS system with batteries during a short power outage.

31 Mar 2008

How Much Abuse Can Batteries Take Before They Blow Up

Researchers in the Power Sources R+D group at Sandia National Laboratories have been driving nails into batteries, heating them to extreme temperatures, overcharging them, and putting them into some of the most adverse conditions possible to see how much abuse they can take before they blow up.

31 Mar 2008

Hydrogen-Generating Power System for Soldiers in the Battlefield

Researchers at Missouri University of Science and Technology are developing a portable, hydrogen-generating power system to power everything from laptops to communications gear for soldiers in the battlefield.

29 Mar 2008