Story tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, September 2004
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31-Aug-2004
ORNL's high temperature materials laboratory assists NASCAR teams
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You might say some scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory hang with a fast crowd. More and more, NASCAR teams seeking a racing edge are making pit stops at ORNL's High Temperature Materials Laboratory for high-tech tips to better performance.
24-Aug-2004
Sensors at Watts Bar being evaluated by ORNL
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Hundreds of barges, tow boats and recreational craft passing through Watts Bar on the Tennessee River will be monitored for nuclear material as part of an effort to thwart terrorists.
23-Aug-2004
Homeland security initiative takes Memphis' ORNL technologies to the nation
DOE/Oak Ridge National LaboratoryBusiness Announcement
The Department of Homeland Security's recent selection of Memphis as a "best practices" model for high-tech security measures could speed the implementation of similar technologies in other cities.
13-Aug-2004
Story tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, August 2004
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Story ideas from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory include
Grains of insight into the grid, more bang for the buck and good vibrations.
11-Aug-2004
Uncovering secrets of living cells
DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Probing microbes to determine what they are made of and what drives them requires more than mass spectrometers, microarrays, and microscopes. Computational models run on supercomputers have been key contributors to our growing understanding of these single-cell organisms.
11-Aug-2004
Progress through computation
DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
If we continue to burn fossil fuels for energy at the current rate, they will last only another few hundred years. In the context of civilization, the fossil fuel era is drawing to a close. In addition, it would be wise to reduce our combustion of oil, gas, and coal because the process produces pollutants that are bad for our health and carbon dioxide that could change our climate in undesirable ways. One possible future source of electricity for the world is fusion energy.
11-Aug-2004
Near-zero-energy buildings blessing to owners, environment
DOE/Oak Ridge National LaboratoryPeer-Reviewed Publication
An electricity meter that sometimes runs backwards is just one of the cool aspects of Department of Energy near-zero-energy homes.
11-Aug-2004
Glimpses of global warming
DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
As greenhouse gases accumulate in the atmosphere, many questions arise concerning how fast and in what ways Earth's environment will change. For example, in the United States, will increased emissions of carbon dioxide from coal combustion in the 21 st century make the Southeast wetter or drier over the next 100 years? Will changes in temperature and moisture conditions make certain U.S. regions more vulnerable to insect-borne diseases?
1-Aug-2004
Tomorrow's molecular and nanoscale devices
DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Chemists are now about to cross a remarkable threshold and expect a dramatic expansion in their ability to make reliable predictions about molecular structure and processes.