- Number 298 |
- October 26, 2009
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BOSS begins most ambitious baryon oscillation search yet
BOSS, the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey, is the most ambitious attempt yet to map the expansion history of the Universe using the technique known as baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO). The largest of four surveys in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey-III, the BOSS collaboration is led by scientists with the Physics Division of DOE's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, including principal investigator David Schlegel, survey scientist Martin White, and instrument scientist Natalie Roe. -
Team tests higher ethanol fuel mix
Researchers at DOE's National Renewable Energy Laboratory and Oak Ridge National Laboratory are trying to find out if a gasoline “diet” of traditional fuel blended with increased levels of ethanol will be good for the environment and economy without hurting cars and small engines. The hope is that new ethanol blends could play a starring role in reducing U.S. petroleum use. -
NETL Conducts SOFC Testing at PSDF Facility
The National Energy Technology Laboratory completed field deployment of a solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) test system operated on partially cleaned coal syngas at the NCCC/PSDF facility in Wilsonville, Ala. The 450-hour test operated 12 SOFC specimen in parallel at power densities ranging from 100 to 250 mW/cm2.
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Global Arrays Toolkit Version 4.2 Released
When you are working with the world's fastest computers, you need software that can keep up. Enter the Global Arrays Toolkit, known as GA. A team from DOE’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory released a new version of the award-winning software that dramatically simplifies writing code for supercomputers. -
$3 million injected into California carbon sequestration project
DOE's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has received $3 million in
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act dollars to capture and
transport 1 million tons of carbon dioxide from San Francisco Bay
Area power plants and inject it more than two miles underground.
