- Number 290 |
- July 6, 2009
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Lead in clouds: A bad news/good news scenario
By sampling clouds and making their own, an international team has shown for the first time that lead from the use of fossil fuels is changing the properties of clouds and, therefore, the way the sun's energy affects the atmosphere.
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Neutrino physicists count on Fermilab’s Castro
DOE’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory is home of the world’s most powerful neutrino beam. This month, Cervando Castro will make sure it stays that way. He will use a remote control crane to change a key piece of equipment in Fermilab’s neutrino beam line.
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Finding could rock electronics industry
Electronic devices of the future could be smaller, faster, more powerful and consume less energy because of a discovery by researchers at DOE's Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
The key to the finding involves a method to measure intrinsic conducting properties of ferroelectric materials, which for decades have held tremendous promise but have eluded experimental proof. -
Energy analysts dig into feed-in tariffs
Feed-in tariffs (FiTs) are driving renewable energy development worldwide. Now they are stimulating clean energy investment in North America, too. The U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory is examining these complex policies in a series of technical reports by the Laboratory's Strategic Energy Analysis and Applications Center.
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Testing of First Active Combustion Throttle Prototype Begins at NETL
Engineers from DOE's National Energy Technology Laboratory and the University of Pittsburgh have produced and begun testing the first fully integrated valve body and flow control actuator. The active combustion throttle (ACT) concept uses a fast-acting control valve to modulate fuel flow in a combustor to control emissions and improve combustion stability.