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Red Sky at night, Sandia’s new computing might

December 17, 2009 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – There’s a new high-performance computer at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Sandia National Laboratories, and it stands on the shoulders of giants. Red Sky is located in the space where legendary system ASCI Red once stood, ready to provide computing might for a variety of Sandia projects,...

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Kathye Chavez inspects a component board in one of the many cabinets that make up Sandia’s Red Sky.

Sandian honored by American Indian organization

November 24, 2009 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Sandra Begay-Campbell, a Sandia National Laboratories engineer and a member of the Navajo Nation, was selected for the prestigious Ely S. Parker Award by the American Indian Science and Engineering Society at an honors banquet Oct. 31 in Portland, Ore. Begay-Campbell, who has worked at Sandia for...

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Topics: diversity, women in STEM

Sandia engineer Sandra Begay Campbell received the Ely S. Parker award

Why huge bands of iron formed billions of years ago on Earth’s surface

November 19, 2009 • Ironing out a longstanding geological puzzle ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — No one knows why massive formations of banded iron — some ultimately hundreds of kilometers long, like a sleeping giant’s suspenders — mysteriously began precipitating on Earth’s surface about 3.5 billion years ago. Or why, almost 2 billion years later, the...

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Yifeng Wang holds a piece of banded iron during a visit to an aquarium. Wang and colleagues have proposed an explanation -- published recently in Nature Geoscience -- for the precipitation of banded iron deposits in the planets oceans billions of years ago.

Sandia announces completion of mixed waste landfill cover construction

November 2, 2009 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – The Environmental Restoration Project at Sandia National Laboratories reports the successful construction of an alternative evapotranspirative cover at the Mixed Waste Landfill (MWL) in September. The 2.6-acre site is located in Technical Area 3 in the west-central part of Kirtland Air Force Base. The protective cover consists...

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Sandia, others funded to sequence microbial genes for potential biofuels use

October 28, 2009 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia researchers and others at the University of New Mexico (UNM), the Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI), Novozymes and North Carolina State University’s Center for Integrated Fungal Research (NCSU-CIFR) have received a DNA sequencing award from the Depart...

Categories: Awards, Renewable energy, Science / Technology / Engineering

The 454 genome sequencing instruments (shown here at the Joint Genome Institutes Walnut Creek, Calif. headquarters) are among the platforms to be utilized in the grasslands project. Photo credit: Roy Kaltschmidt, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

“Perspectives on Energy Policy” report now available

October 22, 2009 • Energy leaders call for independent energy council, recommend outcomes and values-based policies LIVERMORE, Calif. — The United States should create a high-level independent council to analyze and communicate critical issues to energy policymakers and the public, a group…

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Sandia joins forces with Boeing, Caltrans, other industry partners on fuel cell-powered mobile lighting application

October 19, 2009 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Sandia National Laboratories, with help from The Boeing Company, the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans), and others, is leading an effort to develop a commercially viable, fuel cell-powered mobile lighting system.

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Turning algae into energy

October 7, 2009 • Project converts dairy wastes to energy, other products ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — As part of a project to create alternative sources of energy, researchers at Sandia National Laboratories are cultivating green algae that holds promise as a new supply of biofuel. “People have been growing algae for centuries for food supplements...

Categories: Biology, Climate Security, Energy / Environment / Water, Renewable energy, Transportation

Topics: algal biofuels, biofuel, biomass, dairy effluent, energy, New Mexico Small Business Association, recycling, sustainable

New SunCatcher™ power system unveiled at National Solar Thermal Test Facility

July 7, 2009 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Stirling Energy Systems (SES) and Tessera Solar recently unveiled four newly designed solar power collection dishes at Sandia National Laboratories’ National Solar Thermal Test Facility (NSTTF). Called SunCatchers™, the new dishes have a refined design that...

Categories: Renewable energy, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

New type of membrane developed at Sandia may help make hydrogen hybrid cars a reality

June 4, 2009 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories researchers may have developed the key to making hydrogen cars a commercial reality.

Categories: Renewable energy, Science / Technology / Engineering

Hydrogen Road Tour event in Livermore will showcase fuel cell vehicles

May 27, 2009 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — As Sandia National Laboratories prepares to cohost the upcoming Hydrogen Road Tour in Livermore, Calif., Sandia’s hydrogen program manager, Jay Keller, asserts that recent advances in hydrogen technology are real and significant.“Sandia has been at …

Categories: Renewable energy, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Sandia, Purdue investigate new methods for monitoring and operating wind turbines

May 27, 2009 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Researchers with Sandia National Laboratories and Purdue University are using sensors and computational software to help design a better wind turbine.

Categories: Renewable energy, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Sandia successfully completes hydrogen storage system for GM

May 7, 2009 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have successfully designed and demonstrated key features of a hydrogen storage system that utilizes a complex metal hydride material known as sodium alanate. The system, developed through a multiyear project...

Categories: Renewable energy, Science / Technology / Engineering, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Terry Johnson and the hydrogen storage system for GM

Sandia, Mesalands Community College sign agreement to jointly research new wind energy technologies

April 23, 2009 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — In the first arrangement of its kind between a national laboratory and a two-year college, Sandia National Laboratories and Mesalands Community College in Tucumcari, N.M., recently signed a memorandum of understanding committing the two organizations to...

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Energy policy must reconcile values across security, economics, and the environment, energy leaders assert

April 2, 2009 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — At a workshop convened by Sandia National Laboratories and the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) Sustainability Solutions Institute (SSI), some 25 leaders from academia, government, and the private sector gathered on March 18-19 to discuss key...

Categories: Conferences / Symposia, Energy / Environment / Water, Renewable energy

Biofuels can provide viable, sustainable solution to reducing petroleum dependence, say Sandia researchers

February 10, 2009 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — An in-depth study by Sandia National Laboratories and General Motors Corp. has found that plant and forestry waste and dedicated energy crops could sustainably replace nearly a third of gasoline use by the year 2030.

Categories: Renewable energy, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Sandia engineer Cliff Ho wins Discover magazine’s ‘The Future of Energy in 2 Minutes or Less’ contest

December 17, 2008 • Nathaniel Greene, director of Renewable Energy Policy at NRDC and judge for Discover’s contest says on Discover’s website that “I love [Cliff’s] concrete and clear presentation. I thought it did a good job of laying out the different ways we can use solar energy.”

Categories: Climate Security, Energy / Environment / Water, Renewable energy, Space / Astronomy

Sandia researchers study possibility that lightning was cause of Sago Mine disaster

December 18, 2006 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — In early November a team of staff members from Sandia National Laboratories visited the Sago Mine near Buckhannon, W.Va. to study the possibility that lightning was the cause of the Jan. 2, 2006 fatal explosion that killed 12 miners.

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Sandia research to focus on early detection of harmful algal blooms (HABs)

November 28, 2006 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Sandia National Laboratories researchers Todd Lane and Victoria VanderNoot have been awarded a research grant to develop a technology that can successfully detect deadly toxins from harmful algal blooms (HABs). The funding is provided by the Cooperative Instit

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Sandia researcher Amanda Jokerst injects a sample into a handheld microseparations platform for analysis. Jokerst and others at Sandia aim to optimize the micro-separations process for a sub-set of relevant toxins found in harmful algal blooms (HABs) and establish the laboratory-based protocols for sample preparation.

Sandia researchers develop contaminant warning program for EPA to monitor water systems in real time

October 10, 2006 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories researchers are working with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), University of Cincinnati and Argonne National Laboratory to develop contaminant warning systems that can monitor municipal water systems to determine ...

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JUST CHECKING — Bill Hart, project lead for the Sandia team that developed water system software, does some field checking in the Albuquerque foothills.

Buying, selling energy being conducted in safer environment due to Sandia standards assessments

October 4, 2006 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Companies buying and selling natural gas and electricity are conducting business in a safer environment thanks to three information standards assessments done by Sandia National Laboratories since 2000.

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Phase diagram of water revised by Sandia researchers

October 3, 2006 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Supercomputer simulations by two Sandia researchers have significantly altered the theoretical diagram universally used by scientists to understand the characteristics of water at extreme temperatures and pressures.

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The electrically conducting structure of metallic water occurs at a more accessible part of the water phase diagram than formerly thought. Here, a snapshot from a first-principles computer simulation demonstrates the atomic disorder. Red spheres are hydrogen atoms, white spheres are oxygen atoms, and the electron density from a partially occupied electron state responsible for the conductivity is shown as gold.

Sandia, task force to study ways ocean and wastewater can be desalinized in California

September 6, 2006 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Researchers from the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Sandia National Laboratories, together with fellow members of the Joint Water Reuse & Desalination Task Force, in coming months will be studying the best ways to desalinize — and make potable...

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Sandia hosts NASA test at Solar Tower Sept. 6

August 28, 2006 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center’s Space Propulsion Technology Project is scheduled to conduct tests at Sandia National Laboratories’ National Solar Thermal Test Facility Wednesday, Sept. 6, from 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. MDT. A new advanced thermal...

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Artist concept of a spacecraft using aerocapture to enter an orbit around Mars.

Sandia hosts water forum

August 9, 2006 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories is hosting a free public water forum Monday, Aug. 21, from 7 to 9 p.m. at the University of New Mexico Continuing Education Conference Center, North Building, Room C.

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