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Evaluating powerful batteries for modular grid energy storage

October 24, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories has begun lab-based characterization of TransPower’s GridSaver, the largest grid energy storage system analyzed at Sandia’s Energy Storage Test Pad in Albuquerque, N.M. Project lead David Rosewater said Sandia will evaluate the 1 megawatt, lithium-ion grid energy storage system for capacity, power, safety and...

Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Renewable energy

Topics: energy, energy grid, energy storage, GridSaver, renewable energy

Converting natural gas to liquid transportation fuels via biological organisms

November 18, 2013 • LIVERMORE, Calif.— Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories will use their expertise in protein expression, enzyme engineering and high-throughput assays as part of a multiproject, $34 million effort by the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) aimed at developing advanced biocatalyst technologies that can convert natural gas to liquid fuel for transportation....

Categories: Biology, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: ARPA-E, biofuels, energy, transportation

Sandia and Arizona State University sign MOU

August 30, 2013 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Sandia National Laboratories and Arizona State University have signed a formal partnership agreement on important renewable energy challenges. The goals of the memorandum of understanding are to encourage collaborative research, build educational and workforce development programs and inform policy endeavors. The agreement enables the two institutions to...

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: collaboration, energy, national laboratories, partnerships, renewable, solar

High-impact Sandia physicist publishes technical, yet personal, memoir

June 6, 2013 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The swan song of retiring Sandia physicist Tom Sanford is in a technical, yet personal, memoir about experiments that changed the course of research at particle accelerators around the world. His experiments in the mid-1990s made the Z accelerator a more effective candidate to achieve peacetime fusion...

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: accelerator, autobiography, deuterium, energy, HERMES III, nuclear fusion, Tom Sanford, z machine, z pinch

Sandia researchers bring lab experience to world of business

March 28, 2013 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Three Sandia National Laboratories workers were recognized for taking technology out of the labs and into the private sector. Laurence Brown, Matt Donnelly and Jim Pacheco received Entrepreneurial Spirit Awards for their participation in a Sandia program that encourages researchers to take jobs at startup or expanding...

Categories: Awards, Operations / Budget, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: awards, business, community, economic development, energy, engineers, entrepreneur, materials science, materirals science, national laboratories, national labs, Sandia, small business, solar, tech transfer, technology

Prestigious award lights up Tsao’s wide-ranging career

March 12, 2013 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Jeff Tsao has seen it all in his 29-year Sandia National Laboratories career, from research to management to entrepreneurship. But being an idea guy is what he likes best. “It’s what I naturally gravitate toward,” Tsao said.Tsao is a researcher in…

Categories: Awards, Operations / Budget

Topics: aaeoy, asian-american, awards, energy, engineers, national laboratories, national labs, Sandia

Cool Earth Solar and Sandia team up in first-ever public-private partnership on Open Campus

February 20, 2013 • LIVERMORE, Calif.— In a public-private partnership that takes full advantage of the Livermore Valley Open Campus (LVOC) for the first time, Sandia National Laboratories and Cool Earth Solar have signed an agreement that could make solar energy more affordable and accessible. The five-year Cooperative Research & Development Agreement (CRADA) calls...

Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Renewable energy, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: Cool Earth Solar, energy, LVOC, national laboratories, Sandia, solar

Sustainability push unites Sandia facilities and research

December 18, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Sandia National Laboratories has launched a Sustainability Innovation Foundry that combines labs-wide resource conservation with efforts to turn research in fields related to sustainability into business opportunities. “Sandia has experience on the facilities side and a tremendous wealth of knowledge on the R&D side,” said Jack Mizner,...

Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Operations / Budget, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: business, climate, energy, facilities, green, national laboratories, national labs, renewable, research, Sandia, sustainability, tech transfer, technology

Sandia helps DOE bring large-scale solar systems to market

November 27, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories is advancing viable, low-carbon power through collaborating on five U.S. Regional Test Centers (RTCs) where industry can assess the performance, reliability and bankability of large-scale photovoltaic energy systems. “With the trend in the solar industry toward larger systems and greater capital investment – substantial...

Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Operations / Budget, Renewable energy, Science / Technology / Engineering, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: business, economic development, energy, national laboratories, national labs, partnerships, power, PV, renewable, research, Sandia, solar, testing

Northrop Grumman, GE partnerships tap wide range of Sandia Labs expertise

November 5, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Sandia National Laboratories has signed a pair of cooperative research and development agreements (CRADAs) that could broadly add to the Labs’ research into combustion, defense, energy and nuclear security. The umbrella CRADAs, which enable Sandia and its partners to pursue multiple projects in a variety of categories,...

Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Homeland security, Military / Defense, Nuclear Weapons, Renewable energy, Science / Technology / Engineering, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: business, combustion, CRADA, defense, economic development, energy, national laboratories, national labs, nuclear, partnership, research, Sandia, security, tech transfer, technology

Four technology transfer awards go to Sandia Labs

October 22, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Sandia National Laboratories has won four awards from the Federal Laboratory Consortium (FLC) for Sandia’s efforts to develop and commercialize innovative technologies. The FLC’s Far West/Mid-Continent regional awards recognized Sandia’s technology transfer work with crystalline silico-titanates (CSTs), biomimetic membranes, the i-Gate Innovation Hub and DAKOTA software. “It...

Categories: Awards, Chemistry, Computing, Energy / Environment / Water, Nanotechnology, Operations / Budget, Renewable energy, Science / Technology / Engineering, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: awards, business, chemistry, computer, computing, economic development, economic impact, energy, nanomaterials, national laboratories, national labs, research, Sandia, small business, tech transfer, technology, water

Sandia solar researcher chosen as one of continent’s ten most brilliant scientists

September 24, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia researcher Greg Nielson is “one of the 10 most promising young scientists working today,” says Popular Science magazine. Nielson garnered one of the magazine’s “Brilliant 10” awards for helping lead the Sandia effort to create solar cells the size of glitter. Past Brilliant 10 honorees have...

Categories: Awards, Chemistry, Energy / Environment / Water, Materials Science, Nanotechnology, Renewable energy, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: Brilliant 10, efficiency, energy, photovoltaic solar glitter energy Brilliant Ten 10 Popular Science, photovoltaics, solar

Dry-run experiments verify key aspect of Sandia nuclear fusion concept

September 17, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Magnetically imploded tubes called liners, intended to help produce controlled nuclear fusion at scientific “break-even” energies or better within the next few years, have functioned successfully in preliminary tests, according to a Sandia research paper accepted for publication by Physical Review Letters (PRL). To exceed scientific break-even is...

Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Materials Science, Military / Defense, Nanotechnology, Nuclear Weapons, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: beryllium, deuterium, energy, magnetic fields, nuclear fusion, simulations, tritium, Z accelerator, z machine

First Sandia tech showcase shines a light on research, business

September 5, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Sandia National Laboratories’ cutting-edge research and technology will be on display next week at a daylong event. Tips on intellectual property issues and on how to do business with the Labs through licensing, partnership agreements, procurement and economic development programs also will be featured at the first...

Categories: Operations / Budget, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: business, cybersecurity, energy, nanomaterials, national laboratories, national labs, Sandia, showcase, small business, tech transfer, technology, water

Increased productivity, not less energy use, results from more efficient lighting

August 6, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Two researchers have reprised in the journal Energy Policy their groundbreaking finding that improvements in lighting — from candles to gas lamps to electric bulbs — historically have led to increased light consumption rather than lower overall energy use by society. In an article in the journal...

Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Military / Defense, Operations / Budget, Renewable energy, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: economy, energy, laser diode, LED, light, national laboratories, productivity, Sandia

Sandia researcher Jeff Tsao examines the set-up used to test diode lasers as an alternative to LED lighting. Skeptics felt laser light would be too harsh to be acceptable. Research by Tsao and colleagues suggests the skeptics were wrong.

Sandia SolarTrak technology helps arrays worldwide follow the sun

July 3, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – When Alex Maish was a researcher at Sandia National Laboratories in the early 1980s, he had a pet project, a low-cost, high-precision way to continuously move solar panels into the best possible position to catch sunlight and generate energy. By the early 1990s the technology was ready...

Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Operations / Budget, Renewable energy, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: business, energy, national laboratories, national labs, power, renewable, research, Sandia, small business, solar, tech transfer, technology, tracking

Sandia engineer named DOE Energy Pioneer

July 2, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The U.S. Department of Energy named Chris Evans an Energy Pioneer for his work in identifying and implementing energy conservation practices at Sandia National Laboratories. The award recognizes people who go above and beyond their jobs in energy management for the federal government. Evans has been involved...

Categories: Awards, Energy / Environment / Water, Operations / Budget, Renewable energy, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: awards, conservation, energy, energy savings, national laboratories, national labs, power, Sandia

Solar nanowire array may increase percentage of sun’s frequencies available for energy conversion

June 18, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Researchers creating electricity through photovoltaics want to convert as many of the sun’s wavelengths as possible to achieve maximum efficiency. Otherwise, they’re eating only a small part of a shot duck: wasting time and money by using only a tiny bit of the sun’s incoming energies. For...

Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Materials Science, Nanotechnology, Renewable energy, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: energy, nanomaterials, Sandia, solar

Sen. Bingaman tells Sandia Wind Turbine Blade Workshop that renewable energy is important to US policy

May 30, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M — Sen. Jeff Bingaman said Wednesday the on-again, off-again nature of U.S. energy tax incentives and the uncertainty over federal spending on research and innovative technology presents a major challenge to the wind energy industry and other alternative energy industries. Bingaman, chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources...

Categories: Awards, Conferences / Symposia, Energy / Environment / Water, Renewable energy

Topics: energy, research, wind energy, wind turbine blade design

Sandia Labs technology used in Fukushima cleanup

May 29, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A Sandia National Laboratories technology has been used to remove radioactive material from more than 43 million gallons of contaminated wastewater at Japan’s damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Sandia researchers had worked around the clock following the March 2011 disaster to show the technology worked in...

Categories: Awards, Chemistry, Energy / Environment / Water, Operations / Budget, Science / Technology / Engineering, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: business, chemistry, cleanup, CST, energy, Fukushima, national labs, nuclear, Sandia, tech transfer, wastewater

New model of geological strata may aid oil extraction, water recovery and Earth history studies

May 23, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A Sandia modeling study contradicts a long-held belief of geologists that pore sizes and chemical compositions are uniform throughout a given strata, which are horizontal slices of sedimentary rock. By understanding the variety of pore sizes and spatial patterns in strata, geologists can help achieve more production from...

Categories: Chemistry, Computing, Energy / Environment / Water, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: chemistry, energy, geology, national laboratories, Sandia

Sandia Labs garners two tech transfer awards

March 5, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Sandia National Laboratories will be honored twice for its work to transfer innovative technologies to the private sector at an awards ceremony May 3 at the Federal Laboratory Consortium (FLC) national meeting in Pittsburgh, Pa. The Sandia Science & Technology Park (SS&TP) will receive the State and...

Categories: Awards, Energy / Environment / Water, Operations / Budget, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: energy, national laboratories, research parks, Sandia, tech transfer

Experimental smart outlet brings flexibility, resiliency to grid architecture

February 27, 2012 • Sandia National Laboratories has developed an experimental “smart outlet” that autonomously measures, monitors and controls electrical loads with no connection to a centralized computer or system. The goal of the smart outlet and similar innovations is to make the power grid more distributed and intelligent, capable of reconfiguring itself as...

Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Renewable energy, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: DOE, energy, national laboratories, Sandia

Sandia National Laboratories researchers find energy storage “solutions” in MetILs

February 17, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Sandia researchers have developed a new family of liquid salt electrolytes, known as MetILs, that could lead to batteries able to cost-effectively store three times more energy than today’s batteries. The research, published in Dalton Transactions, might lead to devices that can help economically and reliably incorporate...

Categories: Chemistry, Energy / Environment / Water, Materials Science, Renewable energy, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: chemistry, energy, materials science, national laboratories, renewable, Sandia

Developing power-over-fiber communications cable: When total isolation is a good thing

January 18, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sometimes total electrical isolation is a good thing — and that’s the idea behind a power-over-fiber (PoF) communications cable being developed by engineers at Sandia National Laboratories. It’s common to isolate communications between systems or devices by using fiber optic cables, said Steve Sanderson of Sandia’s mobility...

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: energy, national laboratories, power, Sandia, technology

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