Credit to Author: US Department of Energy| Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2024 18:30:53 +0000
Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory are looking for a happy medium to enable the grid … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: US Department of Energy| Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2024 03:58:40 +0000
ORNL and NREL Modeling Finds Installing Geothermal Heat Pumps in About 70% of US Buildings Could Reduce Need for New … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: US Department of Energy| Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2024 03:24:52 +0000
Scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory are using a new modeling framework in conjunction with data collected from marshes in … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: US Department of Energy| Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2024 20:15:21 +0000
Researchers demonstrated that stainless steel and other metal alloys coated with hexagonal boron nitride, or hBN, exhibit non-stick or low-friction … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: US Department of Energy| Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2023 04:40:13 +0000
A New Analysis Shows that Geothermal Heat Pumps Can Decarbonize Buildings and the Grid, While Reducing Grid Transmission Needs and Saving Energy
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Read moreCredit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2023 23:15:16 +0000
To ensure continual power during an outage, communities and local energy planners can install microgrids, which have their own power sources … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: U.S. Department of Energy| Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2023 17:15:32 +0000
Simulations performed on the Summit supercomputer at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory revealed new insights into the role of turbulence in mixing fluids and could open new possibilities for projecting climate change and studying fluid dynamics. The study, published in the Journal of Turbulence, used Summit to model the dynamics of a […]
Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2023 03:41:09 +0000
Volkswagen says it has perfected a new dry battery process that will drive down costs while ORNL has a new isostatic pressure process.
Credit to Author: U.S. Department of Energy| Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2023 03:50:44 +0000
Advanced Computing Methods Lead to Reduced Emissions and Shorter Commutes in Metropolitan Tennessee City
Credit to Author: U.S. Department of Energy| Date: Tue, 16 May 2023 14:55:03 +0000
As a researcher in power electronics, Shajjad Chowdhury is focused on exceeding capacity. In a lab space at the Department of Energy’s National Transportation Research Center at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, he’s developing a novel capacitor and inverter component that will shrink the size and reduce the cost of electric drive units. He sees this […]