Energy / Environment / Water

July 26, 2006 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — In West Texas, New Mexico, and other places around the world, wind turbines are used to generate electricity. But how can engineers determine their efficiency and health?

July 10, 2006 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A Sandia National Laboratories research team headed by Dave Menicucci has taken a Labs-developed energy surety model to a tangible level by applying it to military bases.

July 10, 2006 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — With concerns that energy use will rapidly increase over the next several years while fossil fuels diminish, Sandia National Laboratories is looking at a new way to meet growing energy challenges — energy surety.

June 20, 2006 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories is hosting a free public forum on sustainable energy Wednesday, June 28 from 7 to 9 p.m. at the University of New Mexico Continuing Education Conference Center, North Building, Room C.

June 7, 2006 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — A software-based tool developed by Sandia National Laboratories for managing the collection, visualization, and analysis of environmental sampling data is now available to potential licensing partners.

June 5, 2006 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — After one last meeting in San Antonio in April, Sandia National Laboratories researchers Pat Brady and Tom Hinkebein are putting the final touches on the updated Desalination and Water Purification Roadmap — “Roadmap 2” — that should result in more fresh...

May 31, 2006 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Now is the time to address the devastating effects of increasing water scarcity and declining water quality around the world, according to a recently released white paper written jointly by Sandia National Laboratories and the Washington think tank Center...

April 3, 2006 • Livermore, Calif. — Sandia National Laboratories researchers here are studying the burning characteristics of coal to prepare the way for the coming of a hydrogen economy.

January 26, 2006 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Two researchers at Sandia National Laboratories are working to understand several key phenomena that control hydrogen-fueled PEM (proton exchange membrane or polymer electrolyte membrane) fuel cells. One, Ken S. Chen, is developing computational models to...

January 6, 2006 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The National Nuclear Security Administration’s Sandia National Laboratories will conduct a workshop in Salt Lake City Jan. 10-11 designed to help gauge future energy and water concerns of water and electric utilities, environmental organizations, policy and...

December 13, 2005 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Debby Tewa spent her first 10 years living without electricity, water, or a telephone in a three-room stone house in an isolated area of the Hopi Reservation in Arizona.

December 7, 2005 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The National Nuclear Security Administration’s Sandia National Laboratories will conduct a workshop in Baltimore, Md., Dec. 13-14 designed to help gauge the energy- and water-related concerns of water and electric utilities, environmental organizations, ...

November 10, 2005 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The National Nuclear Security Administration’s Sandia National Laboratories will conduct a workshop in Kansas City, Mo., Nov. 15-16, designed to help gauge future energy and water concerns of water and electric utilities, environmental organizations, policy...

November 8, 2005 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — New Mexico water systems don’t have to deal with meeting new Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) arsenic standards on their own.

November 8, 2005 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — New Mexico water systems don’t have to deal with meeting new Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) arsenic standards on their own.

October 5, 2005 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A pilot treatment system developed by the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Sandia National Laboratories that tests technologies to remove arsenic from water, supplied by a number of vendors, will be demonstrated at a Rio Rancho well site on...

September 27, 2005 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Two technologies developed at the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Sandia National Laboratories are expected to soon be checking for toxins and harmful bacteria in the nation’s water supplies. Both are based on the microChemLab.

August 24, 2005 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Over the next several months a team of researchers from the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Sandia National Laboratories will be studying different methods of arsenic removal at the Desert Sands Mutual Domestic Water Consumers Association (MDWCA)...

December 6, 2004 • LIVERMORE, Calif., ENGLEWOOD, Colo., and SYDNEY, Australia — Sandia National Laboratories, CH2M Hill, and Tenix Investments Pty. Ltd. today announced a multi-year, multi-million dollar partnership to develop an unattended water safety system that offers the unique capability...

November 9, 2004 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The National Nuclear Security Administration’s Sandia National Laboratories is joining forces with Stirling Energy Systems, Inc. (SES) of Phoenix to build and test six new solar dish-engine systems for electricity generation that will provide enough grid-...

September 8, 2004 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A method that uses roughly only one-hundredth the fresh water customarily needed to grow forage for livestock may leave much more water available for human consumption, as well as for residential and industrial uses. As a byproduct, it also may add formerly...

August 2, 2004 • VIENNA, Austria — Representatives of seven U.S. Department of Energy national laboratories and nine Russian scientific nuclear organizations have developed a joint document that advocates greater global use of nuclear energy.

June 28, 2004 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Research in the areas of desalination and removal of arsenic in water will step up at the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Sandia National Laboratories over the next few years, the result of a $6 million allocation in the FY2004 federal Energy and...

May 5, 2004 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A new type of polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) is being developed by researchers at the Department of Energy’s Sandia National Laboratories to help bring the goal of a micro fuel cell closer to realization using diverse fuels like glucose, methanol, and...