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Sandia team developing right-sized reactor
August 25, 2009 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A smaller scale, economically efficient nuclear reactor that could be mass-assembled in factories and supply power for a medium-size city or military base has been designed by Sandia National Laboratories. The exportable, proliferation-resistant “right-sized reactor” was conceived by a Sandia research team led by Tom Sanders. Sanders...
Categories: Energy / Environment / Water

Sandia sponsors Earth, Wind, and Sun conference
July 16, 2009 • July 21-22 event to feature keynote speakers, workshops, 60 booths ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Speakers, booths, tours and workshops on how to green buildings to conserve energy and water and to reduce the environmental impact of transportation will be part of the second annual Earth, Wind and Sun conference sponsored by...
Categories: Media advisories, Renewable energy
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New SunCatcher™ power system unveiled at National Solar Thermal Test Facility
July 7, 2009 • Sandia worked closely with Stirling Energy Systems, Tessera Solar to optimize design 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...
Categories: Renewable energy, Technology transfer / Economic Impact
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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 the forefront of significant technical improvements in hydrogen that have been...
Categories: Renewable energy, Technology transfer / Economic Impact
2009 Hydrogen Road Tour logo

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. The sensors are being placed on experimental turbines in Bushland, Texas, to provide enhanced capabilities to monitor and control the wind turbines. A team from both...
Categories: Renewable energy, Technology transfer / Economic Impact
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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 funded by General Motors Corp., stores 3 kilograms of hydrogen and is...
Categories: Renewable energy, Science / Technology / Engineering, Technology transfer / Economic Impact
Terry Johnson and the hydrogen storage system for GM

Sandia awarded significant positions in DOE’s $777 million ‘Energy Frontier Research Center’ program
May 5, 2009 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories researchers scored big in the $777 million, five-year DOE Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRCs) announced last week by the White House. Sandia expects to become home to one of 46 new multimillion-dollar centers, be a significant partner in three others, and may be involved...
Categories: Awards, Energy / Environment / Water, Operations / Budget

Sandia, Mesalands Community College sign agreement to jointly research new wind energy technologies
April 23, 2009 • MOU is first ever between a two-year college and national laboratory 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...
Categories: Community / Education, Renewable energy, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

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 energy policy issues and proposed values- and outcomes-based approaches to...
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. The goal of the 90-Billion Gallon Biofuel Deployment Study was to assess...
Categories: Renewable energy, Technology transfer / Economic Impact
Pam Lane with biofuel
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