Sentences with phrase «at the energy department»

The MOX project, at the Energy Departments Savannah River Site in South Carolina, has been kept on life support by Congress thanks to the influence of South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham and other lawmakers.

Months - long testing of the system began in November at the energy department's Nevada National Security Site, with an eye toward providing energy for future human and robotic missions in space and on the surface of Mars, the moon or other solar system destinations.

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.

Researchers at the Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) are turning to extremely tiny tubes and rods to boost power and durability in lithium - ion batteries, the energy sources for cell phones, laptops, and electric vehicles.

The Trump administration's fiscal 2018 budget proposal, which Congress must approve, would sharply reduce and in some cases eliminate funding for science programs at the Environmental Protection Agency, climate - related science research programs at NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and cut in half research and development programs at the Energy Department.

Analysts at the Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) are providing, for the first time, a method for measuring the economic potential of renewable energy across the United States.

Until recently, scientists assumed another gene was responsible for making lignin, said John Ralph, another author of the paper and a professor at the Energy Department's Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center.

The new president approved $ 120 million to resume licensing Yucca Mountain as a nuclear waste dump, but researchers at the energy department have other plans

Peter McGrail is a geochemist at the Energy Department's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, Wash..

Winberg's responsibilities at the Energy Department include natural gas R&D, and gas stakeholders have been talking up the role of natural gas in facilitating more renewable energy in the grid.

Researchers at the Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have made advances toward affordable photoelectrochemical (PEC) production of hydrogen.

This represents very responsible action, which we hope will serve as a model for research contributions from the corporate sector,» said David Slade, manager of the federal government's carbon dioxide research program at the Energy Department, in a May 1979 letter to Shaw.

George Allen (R) and was an external relations specialist at the Energy Department during the George H.W. Bush administration.

In addition, scientists at the Energy Department's National Labs are developing technologies to reduce carbon emissions and ensure fossil energy sources play a role in America's clean energy future.

For another angle on the topic of costs, take a look at the Energy Department's deep dive into the the economic value of wind power.

Not exact matches

Research from the Department of Kinesiology at Southern Illinois University showed that as little as three 11 - minute intense strength - training sessions a week resulted in an increase in fat burn at rest, and a chronic increase in energy expenditure throughout the day.

University of Virginia Lecturer Ann Reimers, a former fellow at the Department of Energy, marched on Washington during the women's march carrying a «support climate research» sign.

While the renewable industry has gained momentum in recent years, «the battle certainly got tougher» with the election of Trump, said Dan Kammen, an energy expert at the University of California, Berkeley and science envoy for the U.S. State Department.

«Climate change both threatens [Department of Defense] assets globally and appears to enhance the risk of civil conflict in conflict - prone countries,» Dr. Robert Kopp, a professor in the department of Earth and planetary sciences at Rutgers University and associate director of the Rutgers Energy Institute, told BusinesDepartment of Defense] assets globally and appears to enhance the risk of civil conflict in conflict - prone countries,» Dr. Robert Kopp, a professor in the department of Earth and planetary sciences at Rutgers University and associate director of the Rutgers Energy Institute, told Businesdepartment of Earth and planetary sciences at Rutgers University and associate director of the Rutgers Energy Institute, told Business Insider.

That puzzle continued earlier Wednesday when Labor Department data showed consumer inflation, excluding food and energy, was lower than expected at 1.7 percent in the 12 months through November.

John McCarrick, the deputy assistant secretary at the State Department's Bureau of Energy Resources, said his staff helped pave the way for some of the energy supply agreements by meeting with private and public officials in Europe and Asia to promote the strategic value of U.S. eEnergy Resources, said his staff helped pave the way for some of the energy supply agreements by meeting with private and public officials in Europe and Asia to promote the strategic value of U.S. eenergy supply agreements by meeting with private and public officials in Europe and Asia to promote the strategic value of U.S. energyenergy.

But there has been no discussion of America's corporate consolidation during the debates, nor of funding levels at federal government organizations like the NIH, DARPA or the U.S. Department of Energy.

The Department of Mines and Petroleum has denied reports of a gas leak at Buru Energy's Yulleroo project near Broome after carrying out an inspection of the site yesterday.

In total, 15 billion pages of data were stolen from at least 144 U.S. universities, 176 universities across 21 foreign countries, 47 domestic and foreign private sector companies, the U.S. Department of Labor, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the states of Hawaii and Indiana, the United Nations and the United Nations Children's Fund, the Justice Department alleged.

Fatima Maria Ahmad, fellow at the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions, former Interior Department staffer

Contract workers at the U.S. Department of Energys Pantex facility gingerly remove the plutonium cores from retired nuclear warheads.

Cornell's April Salas oversees planning and analysis for emergency response at the U.S. Department of Energy.

A Harvard Law graduate, Saba has served as an assistant secretary in the U.S. Department of Energy and taught at Georgetown and American University.

Much of Americas plutonium currently is stored in a building at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina - like Pantex, an Energy Department site.

Nevertheless, Vincent DeVito, the counselor for energy policy at the Department of the Interior, has contended that «American energy production can be competitive while remaining safe and environmentally sound.»

How you conduct yourself offstage carries just as much weight, according to Tabrez Ebrahim, co-founder of Evanston, Ill. - based NuMat Technologies, a clean - energy technology company that has won about $ 1.3 million in contests this year, including top honors at the U.S. Department of Energy's first National Clean Energy Business Plan Competenergy technology company that has won about $ 1.3 million in contests this year, including top honors at the U.S. Department of Energy's first National Clean Energy Business Plan CompetEnergy's first National Clean Energy Business Plan CompetEnergy Business Plan Competition.

«You look at the high speed bullet train in China or other parts of the world — any place there's a transit hub, they have an economic vitality, economic improvement,» Dane Egli, a senior advisor at the U.S. Department of Energy, told Fortune.

Officials from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and U.S. Department of Energy, at a news conference in Las Vegas, detailed the development of the nuclear fission system under NASA's Kilopower project.

She is a policy entrepreneur who developed motor vehicle feebates while at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory under a grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

There's also $ 400 million over five years, starting next year, for Sustainable Development Technology Canada's very effective SD Tech Fund, and over $ 400 million (over four years, starting in 2017) to a mix of federal departments for research and development aimed at clean energy, clean transportation and cleaner resource development.

Washington, D.C., 16 January 2014: The Pew Charitable Trusts today announced the release of its substantive report on the status of Department of Defense (DoD) use of clean energy technology at its extensive base facilities worldwide.

At the federal level, the US Department of Energy's much - anticipated study on grid reliability deliberately removed language noting harm from climate change between the draft and final versions.

Tesla's loan from the Energy Department requires Mr. Musk to hold at least 65 percent of Tesla.

The U.S. Department of Energy puts the drop at 64 per cent for utility - scale solar power and 41 per cent for land - based wind since 2008.

At the same time, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is awarding a $ 241 million loan guarantee — its first for a biofuel plant — to Diamond Green Diesel.

The Department of Energy found that if there is a charger installed at a workplace, employees are 20 times more likely to actually by a plug - in vehicle.

Laura Wellesley is a Research Fellow in the Energy, Environment and Resources Department at the Royal Institute for International Affairs (Chatham House).

While the EPA is busy punishing commercially competitive sources of energy, a class of bureaucrats at the Department of Energy has been acting like the world's worst venture capital fund, spending recklessly on politically favored alternaenergy, a class of bureaucrats at the Department of Energy has been acting like the world's worst venture capital fund, spending recklessly on politically favored alternaEnergy has been acting like the world's worst venture capital fund, spending recklessly on politically favored alternatives.

The Department of Energy estimates that it generally takes 1,500 years for the relative biohazard index of high - level wastes to arrive at that of the ore from which it was made.

A team of scientists and Ph.D's, known as the Rate Group, gathered fossilized wood samples (some specimens previously aged at 250 million years) and coal, from the Department of Energy Coal Sample Bank.

At our U.S. plant, we've partnered with the University of Syracuse to do a similar energy study, which has been funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, sheenergy study, which has been funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, sheEnergy, she adds.

According to the US Department of Energy, though, your mileage goes down starting at 35 mph.

«We weren't researching energy drinks,» says Dr. John Sproule, lead author of the sports drink study and a professor in the Department of Physical Education, Sport and Leisure Studies at the University of Edinburgh.

«Fermi is not generating any new waste,» said Jon Cooper, an environmental scientist at the U.S. Department of Energy's Batavia branch.

(Reuters)- Government scientists have not been able to replicate a chemical reaction suspected of causing a radiation leak at a U.S. nuclear waste dump in New Mexico, complicating efforts to understand what went wrong, a U.S. Energy Department official said Friday.