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(Tennessee Today) The Romanian ambassador to the United States is at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, this week to give a public lecture, talk with students, tour the city, and meet with local dignitaries...On Friday, Vierita will tour Oak Ridge National Laboratory and meet with UT President Joseph DiPietro...10/26 |
(Physorg.com) Taking a cue from Mother Nature, researchers at the Department of Energy's BioEnergy Science Center have undertaken a first-of-its-kind study of a naturally occurring phenomenon in trees to spur the development of more efficient bioenergy crops...10/26
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DOE
(DOE Press Release) Recently, researchers in the Energy Department’s Brookhaven National Laboratory figured out how an enzyme, a protein machine that specializes in driving high-speed chemical reactions, “knows” how to insert double bonds with pinpoint precision in plants' fatty acids...10/26
State & Regional
(Tennessean) TVA is eager to help lead the way to a new concept in nuclear plants — small reactors that would be factory-built, hauled to a location and buried underground...10/27 |
National
(USA Today)
The congressional "supercommittee" seemed skeptical that discretionary budget cuts could do much to help meet their $1.5 trillion deficit-reduction goal, even as they held a rare public hearing Wednesday to discuss the 40% of the budget that goes to non-entitlement spending...10/27
East Tennessee
(Knoxville News Sentinel)
While making fuel from grass is still a dream in the pipeline, farmers, researchers and industry representatives gathered on a perfect autumn Tuesday at the Color Wheel Farm in Monroe County to take stock of the road traveled so far...10/25 |
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energy & science policy
(AIP) In an effort to get the FY 2012 appropriations bills passed, the Senate is taking a new approach by bundling three of the twelve funding measures into a single bill...10/25
10/26 A daily report on U.S. energy policy
[ORNL users only]
- Interior plans to combine OSM, BLM
- Democrats seek probe of nuclear loan aid
- Offshore drilling safety group forms
- BP gets first gulf permit since Macondo
- Peak oil advocates press DOE for action
science & technology
(Science Daily)
New research from SMU's Geothermal Laboratory, funded by a grant from Google.org, documents significant geothermal resources across the United States capable of producing more than three million megawatts of green power -- 10 times the installed capacity of coal power plants today...10/26
(Physorg.com) When it comes to fabricating stretchable, transparent electronics, finding a material to make transistors from has been a significant challenge for researchers...10/26
(Scientific American)
Armed with new drones, Brazilian authorities are sending them out over the wilderness to hunt for poachers and illegal mining and logging...10/26
Other Stories
(Nature News) The disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in March released far more radiation than the Japanese government has claimed...10/25
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Field of pipe dreams? ET switchgrass at a crossroads 
Geothermal Mapping Report Confirms Vast Coast-To-Coast Clean Energy Source in U.S.