Energy / Environment / Water

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...

April 29, 2004 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Keeping this nation’s electric utilities and gas operations safe will be the topic of a May 3-4 seminar, EnergyGard Southwest, in Albuquerque sponsored by the Department of Energy’s Sandia National Laboratories and the Public Service Company (PNM) of New...

March 22, 2004 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Using a unique laser-based, soot heating technique, a team led by researchers at Sandia National Laboratories’ Combustion Research Facility (CRF) has demonstrated the ability to measure “real world” particulate emissions from a vehicle under actual driving...

December 18, 2000 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — “Una tecnología muy moderna para una actividad muy antigua" — “a very modern technology for such a very old activity” — says José Canul of the solar-powered water-pumping station at his ranch in rural Quintana Roo, Mexico.

December 6, 2000 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — In an effort to build working relationships between the Department of Energy’s Sandia National Laboratories and the Navajo Nation, the entities signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) Dec. 4 in Albuquerque. Secretary of Energy Bill Richardson, Navajo...

December 5, 2000 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — To stimulate development of wind power resources essentially untapped in New Mexico, the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Sandia National Laboratories has contracted to purchase "green" electricity generated by an already-in-place wind turbine near Clovis...

November 2, 2000 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.— Sandia National Laboratories Director C. Paul Robinson heads the list of speakers who will dedicate Sandia’s $45.9 million, 151,000-square-foot Processing & Environmental Technology Laboratory (PETL) Nov. 8. The Department of Energy (DOE) facility provides...

October 5, 2000 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Goodyear Chemical and the Department of Energy’s Sandia National Laboratories will jointly explore new and more energy efficient processes that could dramatically reduce U.S. petrochemical industry dependence on foreign oil. Under an agreement signed here toda

September 13, 2000 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A new way to safely, simply and effectively connect electricity-producing photovoltaic (PV) solar systems to utility company power grids has been developed by the Department of Energy’s Sandia National Laboratories. Already several manufacturers have...

July 13, 2000 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- A new solar power initiative of the Navajo Tribal Utility Authority (NTUA) is bringing electricity to the homes of people living in remote areas of the reservation. The Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories provides technical support.

May 23, 2000 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- A recent Department of Energy (DOE) study headed by Sandia National Laboratories suggests that major power emergencies like Monday's statewide conservation alert in California might be averted if power companies adopt new command and control software that...

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.

September 23, 1996 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- The concept for the recently announced Russian/American Fuel Cell Consortium (RAFCO) was first proposed in May 1994 at the Third Entrepreneurial Workshop, sponsored by the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency and the Department of Energy.

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...