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Energy News- 2009 a Year of Growth, Challenge for U.S. Wind Power: Report August 11, 2010The U.S. wind power industry grew in 2009, adding 10 gigawatts of new capacity and gaining $21 billion in investments, a new analysis from DOE's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory shows. Still, the report noted some market challenges on the horizon. […]
- California School Set to Become First Grid-Positive U.S. College August 11, 2010California college has announced plans to become the first "grid-positive" school, using solar arrays to supply more than 100% of the college's electricity needs. […]
- DOE Finalizes $43 Million Loan Guarantee for New York State Energy Storage August 11, 2010DOE has announced it finalized a $43 million loan guarantee for an innovative flywheel energy storage plant in New York. DOE also announced it is extending the application deadline for another renewable energy loan guarantee solicitation. […]
- 2009 a Year of Growth, Challenge for U.S. Wind Power: Report August 11, 2010
- Renewable Energy
- Renewable Energy at Work in War ZonesParticipant in NREL's executive leadership class aims to bring solar and wind energy to Afghan farms; researchers advise military on powering bases. […]
- NREL Solar Technology Will Warm Air at 'Home'Transpired solar collector technology developed at NREL boosts the efficiency of the new Research Support Facility on the Lab's campus. […]
- NREL Scholarship Gives Columbine Grads a BoostTen years ago, in the wake of tragedy, NREL set up a fund to help students at Columbine High School. The investment still pays dividends. […]
- Renewable Energy at Work in War Zones
- Energy And The Environment
- Energy Research
- Alaskan research is a new frontier for ORNL ecologist August 13, 2010If anything could lure Stan Wullschleger to the frozen reaches of Alaska, he always figured it would be his love of mountaineering. […]
- First LCLS results document single-shot imaging August 13, 2010In the first published scientific results from the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS), an international collaboration led by Nora Berrah and Matthias Hoener of Western Michigan University (WMU) tested the concept of single-shot imaging by blowing apart nitrogen molecules with shorter and shorter bursts of intense x-rays. […]
- Ames Laboratory scientists develop real-time vertical engineering design software August 13, 2010Researchers at DOE???s Ames Laboratory recently won a 2010 R&D 100 Award for a software application that helps create high-resolution, real-time, 3-D computer simulations, called osgBullet. […]
- Alaskan research is a new frontier for ORNL ecologist August 13, 2010
- Agriculture
- Practical Method to Speed Up Scab-Resistant Wheat BreedingARS scientists have developed a way to easily screen individual kernels of wheat and barley for resistance to the fungus that causes scab, shown here in barley. Click the image for more information about it. Diverse wheat tapped for antifungal genes New Durum wheat line resists scab disease ARS scientist honored for transfer of technology Practical Scr […]
- USDA, Israeli Agricultural Ministry Sign AgreementUSDA Research Agency, Israeli Agricultural Ministry Sign Agreement on Cooperative Research By Ann Perry August 10, 2010 Officials with the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service (ARS) and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MOARD) of the State of Israel today signed a formal agreement in Washington, DC, to collabor […]
- Adequate Zinc Eases Pneumonia in ElderlyAn observational study has found that elderly residents in nursing facilities with normal blood zinc concentrations were about 50 percent less likely to develop pneumonia. Click the image for more information about it. Less is more when restraining calories boosts immunity With inflammation, it's better to have a cool head Panting through your wor […]
- Practical Method to Speed Up Scab-Resistant Wheat Breeding
- Food, Drugs And Health
- FDA: Aseptic Meningitis Risk with Use of Seizure Drug LamictalThe U.S. Food and Drug Administration today warned that the drug Lamictal (lamotrigine), approved to treat seizures and bipolar disorder, can cause aseptic meningitis, an inflammation of the protective membranes (meninges) that cover the brain and spinal cord not caused by bacterial infection. […]
- FDA: Salmonella risk from frozen rodents fed to reptilesThe U.S. Food and Drug Administration is warning U.S. and international customers who may have purchased frozen mice, rats and chicks from Biggers and Callaham LLC, dba/MiceDirect.com, that these products, which are used as food for reptiles, have the potential to be contaminated with Salmonella. […]
- FDA Seeks Injunction Against Colorado Manufacturer of Cultured Cell ProductThe U.S. Food and Drug Administration is seeking an injunction in federal court against Regenerative Sciences LLC, of Broomfield, Colo., citing violations of current good manufacturing practice (cGMP) that cause its cultured cell product to be adulterated. The product is also misbranded due to the lack of adequate directions for use and the failure to bear t […]
- FDA Issues Assessments of the 510(k) Program and Use of Science in Decision-MakingThe U.S. Food and Drug Administration today issued two comprehensive evaluations containing recommendations that address three key objectives of the agency’s public health mission as it relates to medical devices – foster device innovation, create a more predictable regulatory environment, and enhance device safety. […]
- Statement by Margaret A. Hamburg, Commissioner of Food and Drugs on the Reopening of Florida State Waters to Commercial FishingWe are pleased to be able to support the state of Florida as it reopens state waters off Pensacola to commercial fishing. Through close coordination with our state and federal partners, we are confident all appropriate steps have been taken to ensure that seafood harvested from the waters being opened today is safe and that Gulf seafood lovers everywhere can […]
- FDA: Aseptic Meningitis Risk with Use of Seizure Drug Lamictal
Fuels From Sunlight
It would seem that the sun is one of the only places to take advantage of nuclear fusion.
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The Department Of Energy the creation of the Fuels from Sunlight Energy Innovation Hub to develop revolutionary methods of generating fuels directly from sunlight. The Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis (JCAP), led by the California Institute of Technology in partnership with the DOE’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, will operate the initiative. JCAP will bring together leading researchers in an effort to simulate natural photosynthesis for practical energy production. The goal is to build an integrated solar energy-to-chemical fuel conversion system before moving the system from the discovery phase to a commercial scale. To fulfill its mission, the hub will receive up to $22 million in Fiscal Year 2010, then an estimated $25 million per year for the next four fiscal years.
Research will be directed at finding the functional components needed to assemble a complete artificial photosynthetic system, including light absorbers, catalysts, molecular linkers, and separation membranes. The hub will then integrate those components into an operational solar fuel system and will develop scale-up strategies to move the product from the laboratory to commercial viability. The ultimate objective is to move from fundamental to applied research and technology development, setting the stage for a direct solar fuels industry. If successful, the concept—to combine sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide to make a clean fuel—would be an energy sector game changer. DOE’s Office of Science will oversee the project. The Fuels from Sunlight Energy Innovation Hub is the second of three such interdisciplinary hubs that will receive funding in FY 2010. In May, DOE announced that a team led by DOE’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory will establish a hub on modeling and simulation for nuclear reactors. The selection for the remaining hub will be announced in the coming months.