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Fields of gold
April 4, 2019 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — On a drive around Sandia National Laboratories, ecologist Jennifer Payne sees more than wide-open desert, grasslands, cacti and dirt. She notices tiers of soil that have experienced stress, looks closely at the height and spacing of vegetation and recit…
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Digesting hydrocarbons
February 8, 2019 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Volatile organic compounds can be found in the air — everywhere. A wide range of sources, including from plants, cooking fuels and household cleaners, emit these compounds directly. They also can be formed in the atmosphere through a complex network o…
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Rebecca Caravan

Deconstructing deleterious soot
February 7, 2019 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — In most situations, breaking things apart isn’t the best way to solve a problem. However, sometimes the opposite is true if you’re trying to characterize complex chemical compounds. That’s what Sandia National Laboratories scientists Nils Hansen a…
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CRADA enables resilient microgrid research between Sandia, Emera Technologies
November 15, 2018 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Imagine a hurricane similar in magnitude to 2017’s Maria that pummels through islands and small communities, stripping out power lines and wreaking havoc on residents’ lives. Only imagine this time around there is a local power system that is more r…
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Early biologists catch the bird … and lizard … and snake
October 25, 2018 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Its heart beating rapidly, a wild gray flycatcher sits in the palm of a steady hand, making side-eye contact and shaking, waiting for just the right moment to escape from its perceived human predator.Mere seconds are filled with fear, connection and pro…
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Water use cut in half at federal lab in Colorado, thanks in part to Sandia
October 19, 2018 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A Sandia National Laboratories engineer has won a Department of Energy environmental award for helping halve the amount of water used to cool a high-performance computer data center in 2017 at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colorado. David J. Martinez, engineering project lead for Sandia’s...
Categories: Awards, Climate Security, Energy / Environment / Water, Science / Technology / Engineering
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David J. Martinez

Some like it cryogenic
October 15, 2018 • [caption id="" align="alignright" width="250"] Rendering of First Element Fuel’s liquid hydrogen retail fuel pump. The pump includes a canopy on top and the fuel storage is pictured in the rear. (Image courtesy of First Element Fuel) Click on the thumbnail for a high-resol…
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Rendering of First Element Fuel’s liquid hydrogen retail fuel pump. The pump includes a canopy on top and the fuel storage is pictured in the rear.

Small business recycling ventures propelled by Sandia engineering
September 27, 2018 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Along Route 66 in rural, eastern New Mexico is a defunct ethanol plant in Tucumcari. Still hanging inside the building, calendars from 2010 mark the year it closed, and six massive fermentation tanks — each one 35 feet tall and 55,000 gallons — sit empty. Drought has...
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Tucumcari Bio-Energy

Cracking the code to soot formation
September 6, 2018 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — The longstanding mystery of soot formation, which combustion scientists have been trying to explain for decades, appears to be finally solved, thanks to research led by Sandia National Laboratories.[caption id="" align="alignright" width="250"] Sandia N…
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Soot formation

From concept to commercialization: 40 years of concentrating solar power research
July 26, 2018, Media Advisory • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — From testing space shuttle tiles to making electricity from sunlight, the world’s first multimegawatt solar tower has contributed to energy research, space exploration, defense testing and solar energy commercialization since it was commissioned at Sandia National Laboratories in July 1978. The solar tower is a key component...
Categories: History, Renewable energy
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Historical sepia toned photo of a crowd looking at the Solar Tower.

Sandia researchers named fellows of The Combustion Institute
July 16, 2018 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Sandia National Laboratories researchers Robert Barlow and Jacqueline Chen are among 125 members who have been named inaugural fellows of The Combustion Institute.As dedicated members of the international combustion community, fellows are recognized by …
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Robert Barlow

How microgrids could boost resilience in New Orleans
June 14, 2018 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — During Hurricane Katrina and other severe storms that have hit New Orleans, power outages, flooding and wind damage combined to cut off people from clean drinking water, food, medical care, shelter, prescriptions and other vital services. In a year-long project, researchers at Sandia and Los Alamos national...
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Microgrid researcher

Raising the heat to lower the cost of solar energy
May 21, 2018 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories will receive $10.5 million from the Department of Energy to research and design a cheaper and more efficient solar energy system. The work focuses on refining a specific type of utility-scale solar energy technology that uses mirrors to reflect and concentrate sunlight onto a...
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Falling particle receiver video

Exascale Earth-modeling system is ready to make high-fidelity predictions for energy
April 27, 2018 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — An Earth modeling system developed over the last four years and unveiled Monday is expected to have one of the finest resolutions ever achieved by supercomputers simulating aspects of the planet’s climate, said Sandia National Laboratories researcher Mark Taylor, the project’s chief computational scientist. The Energy Exascale...
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First 3-D printed wind-blade mold, energy-saving nanoparticles earn Sandia national awards
April 25, 2018 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories has won the Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer’s national 2018 Technology Focus Award for designing the first wind turbine blades fabricated from a 3-D printed mold, which could dramatically shorten the time and expense of developing new wind energy technology. The labs also...
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3D-printed wind turbine blade

Biologically inspired membrane purges coal-fired smoke of greenhouse gases
April 11, 2018 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A biologically inspired membrane intended to cleanse carbon dioxide almost completely from the smoke of coal-fired power plants has been developed by scientists at Sandia National Laboratories and the University of New Mexico.[caption id="" align="align…
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Road, rail, boat: Sandia transport triathlon puts spent nuclear fuel to the test
March 13, 2018 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Spent nuclear fuel needs to be safely transported from the power plants where it is generated to interim storage locations and eventually to a permanent geologic disposal site. Late last year, Sandia National Laboratories researchers completed an eight-month, 14,500-mile triathlon-like test to gather data on the bumps...
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Infographic showing the path of the nuclear waste triathlon and the total mileage of each leg.

Pioneering smart grid technology solves decades old problematic power grid phenomenon
January 3, 2018 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Picture a teeter-totter gently rocking back and forth, one side going up while the other goes down. When electricity travels long distances, it starts to behave in a similar fashion: the standard frequency of 60 cycles per second increases on the utility side of the transmission line...
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Reducing the traffic jam in batteries
December 12, 2017 • Sandia researchers make solid ground toward better lithium-ion battery interfacesLIVERMORE, Calif. – Research at Sandia National Laboratories has identified a major obstacle to advancing solid-state lithium-ion battery performance in small electronics: the flow of lithium …
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Forrest Gittleson, left, and Farid El Gabaly investigate the nanoscale chemistry
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