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Sandia designs mobile facility to measure greenhouse gases
September 8, 2011 •  LIVERMORE, Calif. — Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have designed and built a mobile research facility to trace and identify the origin of greenhouse gases.  In addition to pinpointing the chemicals’ location, the unique mobile facility can help researchers learn whether the gases are biogenic (coming from plant sources) or...
Categories: Biology, Energy / Environment / Water, Science / Technology / Engineering
Mobile measurement facility

Sandia Labs’ Gemini-Scout robot likely to reach trapped miners ahead of rescuers
August 16, 2011 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – In the first moments after a mining accident, first responders work against the clock to assess the situation and save the miners. But countless dangers lurk: poisonous gases, flooded tunnels, explosive vapors and unstable walls and roofs. Such potentially deadly conditions and unknown obstacles can slow rescue...
Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Homeland security
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Sandia Labs' Gemini Scout Robot

Tribal Energy Program at Sandia empowers Native American students while powering tribal lands
August 15, 2011 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Most Americans take electric power for granted, but for thousands of people living on tribal lands, getting to the grid can be a challenge. A lack of infrastructure, transmission capabilities and policies impede the availability of electricity within the reservations and to outlying tribal areas. A program...
Categories: Community / Education, Energy / Environment / Water, Renewable energy, Science / Technology / Engineering, Technology transfer / Economic Impact
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...
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2011 Wind Turbine Reliability Workshop

Sandia’s CANARY software protects water utilities from terrorist attacks and contaminants, boosts quality
July 25, 2011 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Americans are used to drinking from the kitchen tap without fear of harm, even though water utilities might be vulnerable to terrorist attacks or natural contaminants. Now, thanks to CANARY Event Detection Software — an open-source software developed by Sandia National Laboratories in partnership with the Environmental...
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CANARY

Sandia Labs Battery Abuse Testing Laboratory undergoing $4.2 million stimulus fund renovation
July 12, 2011 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Sandia’s world-renowned Battery Abuse Testing Laboratory is undergoing a major renovation so Sandia researchers can test larger batteries for electric and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles. The nation’s leading facility for battery testing was built in 1991, and has conducted thousands of critical scientific studies to evaluate the...
Categories: Operations / Budget, Renewable energy, Science / Technology / Engineering
Chris Orendorff at the Battery Abuse Testing Lab

Sandia National Laboratories partners with TUV Rheinland PTL, LLC to advance nation’s photovoltaic industry
June 23, 2011 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Testing techniques from Sandia National Laboratories are helping accelerate the growth of the nation’s photovoltaic solar power industry through a partnership with TUV Rheinland PTL, LLC, a private testing and certification company in Tucson, Arizona. “The unique, multiplatform test capabilities developed at Sandia Labs are providing a...
Categories: Awards, Renewable energy, Science / Technology / Engineering, Technology transfer / Economic Impact
TUV-PTL yard

Japanese collaboration promises to put Sandia hydrogen program on global track
May 5, 2011 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — A new hydrogen research initiative based in Japan will leverage Department of Energy (DOE)-funded hydrogen research at Sandia National Laboratories’ California site and will likely become the first research effort to be rolled into a broader laboratory research umbrella aimed at increasing the laboratories’ hydrogen partnerships domestically and...
Categories: Awards, Energy / Environment / Water, Renewable energy
Sandia researcher Brian Somerday

Two Sandia engineers named Influencers and Innovators of Wind Power
April 28, 2011 • Sandia engineers Jose Zayas and Dale Berg were honored by Windpower Engineering magazine as two of the nation’s innovators and influencers in wind energy. Zayas, senior manager of the Renewable Energy Technologies group at Sandia National Laboratories, was named an influencer on wind energy. The magazine also named Berg, principal...
Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Operations / Budget, Renewable energy
Wind energy inflencer Jose Zayas

From fork to farm
April 21, 2011 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — At Sandia’s largest cafeteria, a leftover burrito will be sent off to eventually help some backyard garden bloom. When someone leaves a bit of lunch behind at Thunderbird Café, employees send it out for composting. The composting program began in March 2010 as a pilot to divert...
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From fork to farm

Recipe for radioactive compounds aids nuclear waste and fuel storage pools studies
April 14, 2011 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Easy-to-follow recipes for radioactive compounds like those found in nuclear fuel storage pools, liquid waste containment areas and other contaminated aqueous environments have been developed by researchers at Sandia National Laboratories. “The need to understand the chemistry of these compounds has never been more urgent, and these...
Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Nanotechnology
The young Marie Curie?

Supercritical carbon dioxide Brayton Cycle turbines promise giant leap in thermal-to-electric conversion efficiency
March 4, 2011 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories researchers are moving into the demonstration phase of a novel gas turbine system for power generation, with the promise that thermal-to-electric conversion efficiency will be increased to as much as 50 percent — an improvement of 50 percent for nuclear power stations equipped with...
Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Renewable energy, Science / Technology / Engineering

Registration open for Sandia-sponsored 4th International Conference on Integration of Renewable and Distributed Energy Resources
November 19, 2010 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Registration is open for the 4th International Conference on the Integration of Renewable and Distributed Energy Resources, the premier event for technical discussion of electric integration of new energy resources. Jointly sponsored by Sandia National Laboratories, the U.S. Department of Energy, Natural Resources Canada, Public Service Company...
Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Materials Science, Renewable energy, Science / Technology / Engineering
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