Sentences with phrase «researchers at the energy»

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.

Researchers at the Energy Safety Research Institute (ESRI) at Swansea University have found a way of converting waste carbon dioxide into a molecule that forms the basis of making plastics.

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

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

Debajit Palit, Senior Researcher at The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), an India - based think tank, emphasized that «energy is a necessary, but not sufficient, condition to empowerment».

Not exact matches

The experimental method uses graphene, and researchers at MIT have managed to create a super-thin graphene membrane just one atom thick, which they say will make reverse osmosis easier, less energy - intensive, and cheaper.

Alberta's oilsands operations are getting increasingly more efficient in producing energy, though they still lag behind conventional oil, according to a new study published by researchers at the Haskayne School of Business and China University of Petroleum (Beijing).

«I don't think that they really feel a sense of trust in the government,» said Dolapo Oni, energy researcher at Ecobank.

When placed inside a ring of sapphire to concentrate the microwave energy, and illuminated by green laser light, the researchers found that the maser worked at room temperature and importantly, continuously.

In the 1970s, researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in California focused on the former, boosting laser energy by routing beams through additional lasing crystals made of glass doped with neodymium.

The study calls on the Department of Energy to plan for at least one high - power laser facility, and that gives hope to researchers at the University of Rochester in New York, who are developing plans for a 75 - PW laser, the Optical Parametric Amplifier Line (OPAL).

When the researchers shined a laser on water, pairs of photons that emerged from the liquid at the same time tended to have complementary energies.

The Project 2061 authors, along with nearly 40 other scientists, science educators, science education researchers, and teachers, were invited to present their work at an international energy summit held at Michigan State University in December 2013.

Researchers at the University of Notre Dame are developing a renewable energy approach for synthesizing ammonia, an essential component of fertilizers that support the world's food production needs.

Researchers in these and other energy fields should register at DoE's e-Center or Grants.gov, the government - wide funding portal, to keep up - to - date on new opportunities.

But rather than trailing animal tracks, Lewis, a researcher at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, is more interested in marks left behind by humans.

The coating was developed by researchers at the Centre for Renewable Energy and Sustainable Technology (CREST) who believe it will be attractive to solar panel manufacturers.

«The industry needs those tools, and we need to provide them as soon as possible,» says Yuri Makarov, a blackouts researcher at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.

«At the highest temperatures, the electron temperature is much higher than that of acoustic vibrational modes of the graphene lattice, so that less energy is needed to attain temperatures needed for visible light emission,» Myung - Ho Bae, a senior researcher at KRISS and co-lead author, observeAt the highest temperatures, the electron temperature is much higher than that of acoustic vibrational modes of the graphene lattice, so that less energy is needed to attain temperatures needed for visible light emission,» Myung - Ho Bae, a senior researcher at KRISS and co-lead author, observeat KRISS and co-lead author, observes.

Erik Lundtang Petersen, a Danish researcher of the Technical University of Denmark Department of Wind Energy, discusses the details of the New European Wind Atlas aimed at improving wind energy assessment and how it will address limitations of prior methodologies in this week's Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy, from AIP PubliEnergy, discusses the details of the New European Wind Atlas aimed at improving wind energy assessment and how it will address limitations of prior methodologies in this week's Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy, from AIP Publienergy assessment and how it will address limitations of prior methodologies in this week's Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy, from AIP PubliEnergy, from AIP Publishing.

The researchers also estimated the effect of contaminated wash water on the fish» condition, a kind of a «fish BMI,» expressed at excess energy available for the fish to grow and reproduce.

The researchers» calculations show that if gravitational waves are found to travel at the speed of light, this would rule out alternative gravity theories, with no dark energy, in support of Einstein's Cosmological Constant.

Touch and go The N.C. State researchers are experimenting with two different approaches they hope will cut the costs and energy requirements of Braille displays in the future, and presented their latest research at the International Conference on Electroactive Polymer Actuators and Devices in San Diego last month.

Researchers at Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands are using iCat, a robotic cat made by Philips, to advise on energy use.

But the study, announced here 24 March at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society's High - Energy Astrophysics Division, drew criticism from researchers who say the analysis is flawed.

A research group led by Chengsi Pan, Postdoctoral Researcher, and Tsuyoshi Takata, NIMS Special Researcher, at the Global Research Center for Environment and Energy Based on Nanomaterials Science (GREEN; Director - General: Kohei Uosaki) of the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS; President: Sukekatsu Ushioda), and Kazunari Domen, a professor of the Department of Chemical System Engineering, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo (President: Junichi Hamada) newly developed a water - splitting photocatalyst that is operable over a wider range of the visible light spectrum than before.

Researchers are proposing a new «hydricity» concept aimed at creating a sustainable economy by not only generating electricity with solar energy but also producing and storing hydrogen from superheated water for round - the - clock power production.

While at UT, David was a researcher in the Webber Energy Group, where his research focused on advanced biofuel production to offset petroleum use in the transportation sector.

At a Los Angeles tech show in August, Japanese researchers vaporized visitors» fingertips with high - energy lasers.

Chris Randall walks through the halls of Huntsville, Alabama's A&M University proudly carrying the souvenir bag he got from being an undergraduate researcher at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), the Department of Energy's (DOE) largest science laboratory, and one of the most prestigious government - run labs in the U.S..

The swirls, especially a bright inner ring, may trace the long - sought «power conduits» that pump energy from the pulsar to the glowing nebula, according to researchers who spoke today at NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.C.

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have demonstrated in the laboratory a lithium - sulfur (Li / S) battery that has more than twice the specific energy of lithium - ion batteries, and that lasts for more than 1,500 cycles of charge - discharge with minimal decay of the battery's capEnergy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have demonstrated in the laboratory a lithium - sulfur (Li / S) battery that has more than twice the specific energy of lithium - ion batteries, and that lasts for more than 1,500 cycles of charge - discharge with minimal decay of the battery's capenergy of lithium - ion batteries, and that lasts for more than 1,500 cycles of charge - discharge with minimal decay of the battery's capacity.

Even if renewable energy goes mainstream, INL researchers still believe nuclear will be essential for supporting the electrical grid's base load — that portion of the nation's electricity that must be supplied at a constant rate, in contrast to the variable supplies from the sun and wind.

«We then studied the chemistry of these materials in greater detail and calculated the energy that would be needed to separate the layers, focusing primarily on materials where interactions between atoms of different layers are weak, something known as Van der Waals bonding,» says Marco Gibertini, a researcher at THEOS and the second author of the study.

Their software system, designed by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, asks new customers to enter their energy preferences — how they want their energy generated, and the prices they are willing to pay.

When the team looked at the overall balance between the radiation upward from the surface of the ice sheet and the radiation both upward and downward from the upper levels of the atmosphere across all infrared wavelengths over the course of a year, they found that in central Antarctica the surface and lower atmosphere, against expectation, actually lose more energy to space if the air contains greenhouse gases, the researchers report online and in a forthcoming Geophysical Research Letters.

Now, researchers report that by creating a fuel cell that can run at a midrange temperature, they've made an inexpensive, powerful version that could boost the prospects for plentiful green energy.

A third laser shot a pulse of light at the atoms to provide a boost of energy that helped the atoms bond into a sodium cesium molecule, researchers report online April 12 in Science.

In addition, the movements required less energy,» adds Joan Lobo - Prat, researcher at the MIRA research centre for Biomedical Technology and Technical Medicine.

Now researchers at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) report major progress in cathodes made with so - called «disordered» materials, a promising new type of lithium battery.

The research was undertaken by the University College London Energy & Development group, a group of researchers and academics at UCL who work on issues related to energy in low and middle - income counEnergy & Development group, a group of researchers and academics at UCL who work on issues related to energy in low and middle - income counenergy in low and middle - income countries.

To cut down on the environmental waste and provide storage for rural communities, researchers at Kyung Hee University in Seoul have proposed a model for recycling unspent lithium ion batteries into energy storage units for solar - powered LED lamps.

Cao Zexian, a researcher at CAS's Institute of Physics here, contends that Chinese high - energy physicists lack the ability to steer or lead research in the field.

If there is an overload, there is excess energy on the grid,» explained Chandrika Kamath, a researcher at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

«When you get a lot of structures forming next to one another that are different but still have similar internal energies, you get a sort of frustration as the material tries to crystalize,» said Eric Perim, a postdoctoral researcher working in the laboratory of Stefano Curtarolo, professor of mechanical engineering and materials science and director of the Center for Materials Genomics at Duke.

Researchers compared simulations of current and future sea level and reef conditions at four sites with differing wave energy near the French Polynesian islands of Moorea and Tahiti.

Neutron scattering at the Department of Energy's (DOE's) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) helped a multi-institutional team led by Tulane University investigate a graphene - like strontium - manganese - antimony material (Sr1 - yMn1 - zSb2) that hosts what researchers suspect is a Weyl semimetal phase.

That's probably because, as researchers at Tel Aviv University revealed, nanostructures in the insect's exoskeleton form a kind of solar cell, harvesting light energy that could power the hornet's work.

To address this concern, a team of researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Tennessee has developed a prototype system they say could let drivers cut the time needed to fully recharge from a home electrical outlet by a factor of 10 — from about eight hours to about 45 minutes.

By arranging their detectors at the edge of a fusion device, researchers have found that they are able to measure high energy particles kicked out of the plasma by a type of wave that exists in fusion plasmas called an Alfvén wave (named after their discoverer, the Nobel Prize winner Hannes Alfvén).