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Old ways making way for new

September 24, 2024 • “They say water is life, and that couldn’t be truer,” said Anne Francis, who has spent her life on the Navajo Nation. A new technology is transforming that struggle into a sustainable solution.

Categories: Awards, Climate Change, Energy / Environment / Water, Media advisories, Renewable energy, Science / Technology / Engineering, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: livestock, Navajo Reservation, NMSBA, water

Reducing power plants’ freshwater consumption with Sandia’s new silica filter

October 18, 2017 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Power plants draw more freshwater than any other consumer in the United States, accounting for more than 50 percent of the nation’s freshwater use at about 500 billion gallons daily. To help save this water, researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have developed a new silica filter for...

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

Topics: cooling, cost, energy, filter, freshwater, hydrotalcite, material, method, power, process, recycle, silica, water

Clean water that’s ‘just right’ with Sandia sensor solution

July 11, 2017 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Water utilities have a Goldilocks problem: If they don’t add enough chlorine, nasty bacteria that cause typhoid and cholera survive the purification process. Too much chlorine produces disinfection byproducts such as chloroform, which increase cancer risks. The amount of chlorine needs to be “just right” for safe...

Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Nanotechnology

Topics: chloroform, graphene, nanoporous carbon, nanotechnology, public health, SAW detector, surface acoustic wave sensor, trihalomethanes, water, water purification

Curtis Mowry and Mike Siegal with tiny nanoporous carbon coated SAW sensors in front of blue water pipes

Wave energy researchers dive deep to advance clean energy source

October 13, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — One of the biggest untapped clean energy sources on the planet — wave energy — could one day power millions of homes across the U.S. But more than a century after the first tests of the power of ocean waves, it is still one of the hardest energy sources...

Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Renewable energy

Topics: clean energy, energy, water, water power, wave, wave energy, wave power, WEC

Water-energy dependence around Pacific Rim mapped in new Sandia study

September 15, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A wide-ranging analysis of water vulnerability across the Pacific — including the U.S., China, Russia and Japan — has identified hundreds of locations where energy production depends upon scarce water supplies. The Sandia National Laboratories study, “Mapping Water Consumption for Energy Production Around the Pacific Rim,” was...

Categories: Energy / Environment / Water

Topics: apec, asia, asia pacific, map, water, water energy nexus, water risk, watershed

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

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

Partnership program seeks small-business groups needing technical help

May 15, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The New Mexico Small Business Assistance (NMSBA) Program is looking for groups of companies facing common challenges that could use technical assistance from researchers at Sandia and Los Alamos national laboratories. NMSBA is soliciting proposals for 2013 leveraged projects, in which two or more small businesses request...

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

Topics: awards, business, livestock, national laboratories, national labs, partnerships, Sandia, small business, tech transfer, water

Climate change accelerating Southwest desertification, speaker says

May 10, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, NM — Jonathan Overpeck, professor of Atmospheric Sciences and Geosciences at the University of Arizona, brought a friendly smile, informative graphics and a warning about drought in the Southwest to Sandia’s Climate Change and National Security Speaker Series. Addressing “Climate Change and the Aridification of the North American Southwest...

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

Topics: climate, environment, national laboratories, Sandia, water