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Vermont-Sandia Partnership announces Center for Energy Transformation and Innovation

December 13, 2011 • Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, Gov. Peter Shumlin and Sandia National Laboratories Vice President Rick Stulen have announced a $15 million, three-year partnership to establish a joint Center for Energy Transformation and Innovation to be housed at the University of Vermont. Researchers at the center will collaborate on research in areas...
Center for Energy Transformation and Innovation

Voltage increases up to 25% observed in closely packed nanowires at Sandia Labs

December 7, 2011 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M — Unexpected voltage increases of up to 25 percent in two barely separated nanowires have been observed at Sandia National Laboratories. Designers of next-generation devices using nanowires to deliver electric currents — including telephones, handheld computers, batteries and certain solar arrays — may need to make allowances for...
Categories: Nanotechnology
THE EYE OF RESEARCHER

Rankings released for supercomputers doing “big data”

November 15, 2011 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.—The list of supercomputers entered in the Graph500 competition now features 50 competitors, up from nine in its initial release a year ago, said Sandia National Laboratories researcher Richard Murphy, chair of the Graph500 steering committee. New rankings were released Tuesday in Seattle at SC2011, the international conference for...

Cyber workshop at Sandia Labs seeks potential responses to cyberattacks

October 25, 2011 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Among other dubious achievements, hackers have stolen identities, broken into bank accounts and breached computer systems of military contractors. They could conceivably interrupt water or electricity service to targeted populations. And worse. To solve these problems, Sandia National Laboratories has plans to increase cybersecurity research over the...

Sandia experts available at international conference on electrical energy and storage

October 17, 2011 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. —  As our nation moves toward a more robust and flexible electric power grid, energy storage is often cited as the solution to allow greater implementation of renewable and alternative energy sources. Researchers from around the world are gathering in San Diego, Calif., at the Electrical Energy Storage...

Hopes high for revitalized agreement between UNM and Sandia Labs

October 17, 2011 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A memorandum of understanding (MOU) of unusual depth and content was signed Sept. 23 by Sandia National Laboratories and executives from the University of New Mexico at the jointly occupied Advanced Material Laboratory on University Boulevard. The growing closeness of two major Albuquerque institutions — often not...

Sandia receives award for electronics stewardship

October 6, 2011 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories has received an award for reducing the environmental impacts of the computers, printers and other office electronics it uses through its fiscal year 2010 electronics stewardship activities. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Office of the Federal Environmental Executive, which jointly manage...

Solar glitter, rescue robot and university partnership earn Sandia technology transfer awards

October 4, 2011 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories will begin researching how to use glitter-sized photovoltaic cells in utility-scale solar power systems, which eventually could cut the costs of solar panels in half and nearly double their efficiency. Sandia’s work with industry, other labs and universities to improve the design, materials and...
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FLC Awards

UNM and Sandia broaden collaboration in science, technology and education

September 22, 2011 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — On Friday, Sept. 23, Sandia National Laboratories and the University of New Mexico and will sign a new memorandum of understanding (MOU) that significantly strengthens collaborative research and development between the two institutions, expanding the opportunities for students to participate in cutting-edge research and preparing them for a...

Sandia researchers use wind power expertise to help create U.S. industry for tidal, wave energy production

September 14, 2011 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M — A dearth of public information, complicated marine environments and even the corrosive effects of bubbles are among the challenges for companies trying to produce energy from river currents, tides and waves, but Sandia National Laboratories is working on solutions. Sandia is helping companies on the frontier of the...
Categories: Awards, Renewable energy
Tidal Power

Big machines: two radiation generators mark major milestones in helping protect the U.S.

September 7, 2011 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Two remarkable pulsed-power machines used to test the nation’s defenses against atomic weapons have surpassed milestones at Sandia National Laboratories: 4,000 firings, called ‘shots,’ on the Saturn accelerator and 9,000 shots on the HERMES III accelerator. Saturn — originally projected to last 5 to 10 years — began...
The Rings of Saturn

Tribal Energy Program at Sandia empowers Native American students while powering tribal lands

August 15, 2011 • [caption id="" align="alignright" width="250" caption="Sandra Begay-Campbell (center) with interns Devin Dick, Tammie Allen, Gepetta Billie and Chelsea Chee at Sky City within the Pueblo of Acoma. Begay-Campbell is describing how a photovoltaic panel works to generate electr…
Interns with Sandra Begay-Campbell

Sandia hosts 2011 Wind Turbine Reliability Workshop

August 1, 2011 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Sandia National Laboratories will hold its biennial Wind Turbine Reliability Workshop, Tuesday and Wednesday, Aug. 2-3, 8 a.m. -5 p.m. at the Marriott Pyramid North in Albuquerque. Speakers include Steve Chalk, deputy assistant secretary for renewable energy in Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy...
2011 Wind Turbine Reliability Workshop
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