Sentences with phrase «energy laboratory found»

Regarding wind power, a February 2012 report from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory found that «Recent declines in turbine prices & improved technology have reduced the estimated LCOE [levelized cost of energy] of wind; LCOE for projects being planned today in fixed resource areas is estimated to be at an all - time low... the LCOE for 2012 - 2013 projects is estimated to be as much as ~ 24 % and ~ 39 % lower than the previous low in 2002 - 2003...»

Indeed, a study by Perry's own National Renewable Energy Laboratory found that today's renewable energy technologies are «more than adequate to supply 80 % of total U.S. electricity generation in 2050 while meeting electricity demand on an hourly basis in every region of the country,» provided that the grid itself adopts technologies to increase flexibility.

A report by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory found that in most areas, the payback period is often four years or less — meaning that installing solar panels provide 100 % ROI.

A study by the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory found that the U.S. can generate 80 percent of its electricity from renewable energy by 2050, using available technology.

With these tools, it is easy to remotely design a solar installation, which the National Renewable Energy Laboratory found can save as much as $ 850 for a 5kW system.

Recent studies by the US National Renewable Energy Laboratory found that wind could supply 20 - 30 % of electricity, given improved transmission links and a little low - cost flexible back - up.

Not exact matches

A peer - reviewed study performed at the Energy Department's Argonne National Laboratory in 2012 found that biofuels made with corn residue were 95 per cent better than gasoline in greenhouse gas emissions.

The most recent data from the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) finds that a cost - shift does not occur until distributed solar penetration reaches 10 % of electricity sales, and even then that the impact is minimal compared to other drivers of rate increases, like new gas plants or transmission lines.

In 1974, Rosenfeld founded the Center for Building Science at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and began developing energy - saving technologies such as ballasts for light bulbs and low - leakage windows.

When they switched the lasers on, the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory scientists found that more energy came out of the fuel than went in.

A scientific team led by the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory has found a new way to take the local temperature of a material from an area about a billionth of a meter wide, or approximately 100,000 times thinner than a human hair.

«Just this year, more than 20 of these dwarf satellite galaxy candidates have been spotted, with 17 of those found in Dark Energy Survey data,» said Alex Drlica - Wagner of the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, one of the leaders of the DES analysis.

Also, finding correlations among synthesis routes, composition, and phase structure and performance enables a paradigm shift toward guided synthesis,» says George Crabtree, Argonne Distinguished Fellow and director of the Joint Center for Energy Storage Research at Argonne National Laboratory.

Other priorities include: upgrading the LHC, which shut down in February for two years to boost its energies from 7 TeV to 14 TeV; plans to build an International Linear Collider in Japan, to collide beams of electrons and positrons as a complement to the LHC's proton findings; and a major US project to exploit high - intensity neutrino beams generated at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois.

To find out more about the elusive particles and their potential links to cosmic evolution, invisible dark matter and matter's dominance over antimatter in the universe, the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory is taking on key roles in four neutrino experiments: EXO, DUNE, MicroBooNE and ICARUS.

A team of researchers with the Dark Energy Survey, headquartered at the U.S. Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, and an independent group from the University of Cambridge jointly announced their findings today.

This will help in predicting the value of their magnetoelectric effect, which, in turn, will make it easier to find new and promising materials for industrial applications,» says the head of MIPT's Laboratory of physics of magnetic heterostructures and spintronics for energy - saving information technologies, Prof. Anatoly Zvezdin.

So say physicists working at the CERN laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland, who claim to have found conclusive evidence for the existence of so - called pentaquarks within the debris of high - energy proton collisions.

Now a new study by the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has found that cool roofs can also save water by reducing how much is needed for urban irrigation.

In a find that could transform some of the world's most energy - intensive manufacturing processes, researchers at Rice University's Laboratory for Nanophotonics have unveiled a new method for uniting light - capturing photonic nanomaterials and high - efficiency metal catalysts.

«We examined the scalar quantum field around a black hole and a compact object and found that around the collapsing object — the black hole, there are no bound states, but around the compact object there are,» explains FedorPopov, a member of staff at MIPT's Laboratory of High Energy Physics.

Typically, these systems are also much less efficient, but environmental engineer Peter McGrail at the U.S. Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory may have found a simple way to improve them.

Danylo Zherebetskyy and his colleagues at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) found unexpected traces of water in semiconducting nanocrystals.

The paradoxical finding — that more natural dust in the air improves air quality — comes from a team of researchers from the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California at San Diego.

«Fasting blood sugar is easily measured and our findings suggest that it could serve as a useful measure in advising some patients on the type of diet that is most beneficial for their weight loss,» said senior author Sai Krupa Das, Ph.D., scientist in the Energy Metabolism Laboratory at the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University in Boston.

That's similar to the shocking situation scientists found themselves in when analyzing results of spinning protons striking different sized atomic nuclei at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC)-- a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science User Facility for nuclear physics research at DOE's Brookhaven National Laboratory.

Researchers at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory are trying to find out why uranium persists in groundwater at former uranium ore processing sites despite remediation of contaminated surface materials two decades ago.

A new study from the U.S. Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) in Richland, Wash., for example, finds that during Salmonella infection the pathogen may use fucose to fortify itself and find its way through a host's body

A study by the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the Medical University of Graz has found that the skin microbiome also contains archaea, a type of extreme - loving microbe, and that the amount of it varies with age.

Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) projects would add additional value of 5 or 6 cents per kilowatt hour to utility - scale solar energy in California where 33 percent renewables will be mandated in six years, a new report by the Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory has energy in California where 33 percent renewables will be mandated in six years, a new report by the Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory has Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory has Energy Laboratory has found.

Now, scientists from the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the California Institute of Technology think they've found a better way.

The result, led by researchers at Stanford University and the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, is the culmination of 20 years of research aimed at finding out whether the pseudogap helps or hinders superconductivity, which could transform society by making electrical transmission, computing and other areas much more energy effiEnergy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, is the culmination of 20 years of research aimed at finding out whether the pseudogap helps or hinders superconductivity, which could transform society by making electrical transmission, computing and other areas much more energy effienergy efficient.

While hydropower and fossil fuel power plants are favored approaches in some quarters, a new assessment by the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has found that wind and solar can be economically and environmentally competitive options and can contribute significantly to the rising demand.

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), who have made important findings on the dangers of thirdhand smoke and how it adsorbs strongly onto indoor surfaces, have published a new study assessing the health effects of thirdhand smoke constituents present in indoor air.

Like astronomers tweaking images to gain a more detailed glimpse of distant stars, physicists at Brookhaven National Laboratory have found ways to sharpen images of the energy spectra in high - temperature superconductors â $» materials that carry electrical current effortlessly when cooled below a certain temperature.

Nagrath, who directs Rice's Laboratory for Systems Biology of Human Diseases, found that some cancer cells are capable of using these information packets as a source of energy to fuel tumor growth.

But in the most comprehensive study to date of overcast versus cloud - free days in China, a team led by the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, reporting in the current advance online issue of Geophysical Research Letters, has found that cloud cover has been decreasing for the past 50 years.

«Conventional methods used to find interacting proteins have limitations that we are trying to circumvent,» said biochemist Uljana Mayer of the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.

New research indicates that understanding the combined heating shows how we could improve the production of fusion in ITER and other next - generation fusion facilities — a key finding of physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), the DIII - D National Fusion Facility that General Atomics operates for the DOE, and other collaborators.

Lithium compounds improve plasma performance in fusion devices just as well as pure lithium does, a team of physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) has found.

OAK RIDGE, Tenn. — After more than a year of operation at the Department of Energy's (DOE's) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), the COHERENT experiment, using the world's smallest neutrino detector, has found a big fingerprint of the elusive, electrically neutral particles that interact only weakly with matter.

Results: In an unprecedented find, a research team including scientists from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory discovered that the three electronic and electrochemical properties having to do with the energy necessary for electrons and molecules to assemble or break apart are not always correlated.

On Monday, the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory released its detailed analysis of energy use in the US during 2009, finding that energy use dropped nearly 5 percent over the last year.

To find out, atmospheric experts at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory compared six reanalyses products against observational data from the U.S. Department of Energy's Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Climate Research Facility in Oklahoma.

Early evidence for the waves was found several decades ago by Princeton astrophysicist Joseph Taylor and Russell Hulse, a former physicist for the U.S. Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory.

RICHLAND, Wash. — Inactive enzymes entombed in tiny honeycomb - shaped holes in silica can spring to life, scientists at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have found.

The results, demonstrated by scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) and collaborators on China's Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) found that lithium powder can eliminate instabilities known as edge - localized modes (ELMs) when used to coat a tungsten plasma - facing component called the «divertor» — the unit that exhausts waste heat and particles from plasma that fuels fusion reactions.

«The findings address an ongoing debate about crystallization pathways,» said materials scientist Jim De Yoreo at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and the University of Washington.

The Cambridge findings are being jointly released today with the results of a separate survey by astronomers with the Dark Energy Survey, headquartered at the US Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.

Find out how researchers are using data from U.S. Department of Energy's Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Climate Research Facility — the world's most comprehensive outdoor laboratory and data archive for research related to atmospheric processes that affect Earth's climate — to improving regional and global climate models.