Energy / Environment / Water

April 13, 2000 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Technology developed at the Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories to remove toxins from groundwater contaminated by nuclear waste may offer clues about how to resolve a catastrophic environmental crisis in Bangladesh where arsenic-polluted...

March 31, 2000 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- The Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories will join forces early next year with one or more Native American tribes to test a new solar electricity generating system that will be the power source for a water pump.

March 8, 2000 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Scientists at the Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories are researching ways to use a new semiconductor alloy, indium gallium arsenide nitride (InGaAsN), as a photovoltaic power source for space communications satellites and for lasers...

February 9, 2000 • LIVERMORE, CA. -- The first Department of Energy national lab location to complete environmental clean-up is Sandia National Laboratories/California, the lab announced today.

April 6, 1999 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- A new Well Construction Technology Center to make US oil, gas, and geothermal energy production more economical has been established by the Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories and the University of Oklahoma's Petroleum and Geologic...

October 16, 1996 • LIVERMORE, Calif. -- An environmentally friendly way to operate heaters for home and industrial uses has received a patent at Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore, Calif.

July 15, 1996 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Viewers of the Summer Olympic Games in Atlanta may catch a glimpse of a prototype solar dish system that engineers at Sandia National Laboratories helped to develop.

June 5, 1996 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Solar Two, a large pilot solar power plant capable of producing 10 megawatts of electricity, was dedicated today in the Mojave Desert near Barstow, Calif. Engineers at Sandia National Laboratories here played a key role in developing this innovative solar...