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Global Monitor: Tenaska proposes first new coal-fired plant with carbon capture
Tenaska Inc. is developing a site near Sweetwater, Texas, for a new 765-MW gross, 600-MW net supercritical coal-fired power plant that will capture up to 90% of the COface=+Subscript; 2face=-Subscript; in the stack gas. The captured COface=+Subscript; 2face=-Subscript; will to be used in enhancing oil production...
Tags: American Electric Power Co. Inc., Sandia National Laboratories, Tenaska Inc.
Research articles 2008-04-01
New Book Provides a Comprehensive Overview of the Fundamental Aspects of Microjoining Processes and Techniques.
M2 PRESSWIRE-22 February 2008-Research and Markets: New Book Provides a Comprehensive Overview of the Fundamental Aspects of Microjoining Processes and TechniquesC1994-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:25022008 Dublin - Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c83718) has announced the addition of Microjoining and...
Tags: Canada, fusion, HEALTHCARE, metallurgy, PRODUCTIVITY, Sandia National Laboratories, technique, University of Waterloo
Research articles 2008-02-22
The creation of tiny carbon spheres finally revealed.(NANOMATERIALS)
The birth secret of buckyballs-hollow spheres of carbon no wider than a strand of DNA-has been recorded by researchers at Sandia National Laboratories and Rice University, USA.An electron microscope video and computer simulations show that "shrink-wrapping" is the key: buckyballs start life as distorted, unstable sheets...
Tags: carbon, MARKETING, Nanotechnology, PRODUCTIVITY, Rice University, Sandia National Laboratories
Research articles 2007-12-01
Algae-Based Energy Burns With Potential
Common aquatic plants offer economies of scale without affecting competition for food, land resources. Scientists are turning humble pond scum into fuel. A research effort seeks to develop techniques to grow algae economically and to convert the oils produced by the tiny plants into biodiesel on an industrial...
Tags: Algae, biodiesel, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Sandia National Laboratories
Research articles 2007-04-01
Industry, Government Secure Infrastructure With LOGIIC
However consumers may think of oil companies as they fill their gas tanks these days, they might be surprised that the oil and gas industry is leading the way in cybersecurity with some significant work. The result of a workshop that took place more than two years ago, the project...
Tags: Cook, government, network, Sandia National Laboratories, SECURITY, Strategy, team, U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Research articles 2007-02-01
High-tech chemical nose: the Department of Homeland Security is rolling out a new system that can detect dozens of chemical agents, from chlorine to sarin.(Homeland Security)
A GROUND SEGMENT OF the Department of Homeland Security's Rapidly Deployable Chemical Detection System RDCDS will be rolled out before the end of the year. The system is designed to sniff out suspicious chemicals in public venues that have been designated as a National Security Special...
Tags: agent, chemicals, chlorine, Sandia National Laboratories, U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Research articles 2006-11-01
Feds may compensate Sandia workers
WASHINGTON -- Some ailing San Joaquin Valley residents who have worked at a top-secret Livermore facility might receive $150,000 payments. First, though, the X-ray technicians and scientists from Sandia National Laboratories need a green light from federal officials. If they get it, they will become the first...
Tags: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, petition, Sandia National Laboratories, worker
Research articles 2006-10-27
Software Gives Utilities Real Time Water Contamination Warnings
ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico ENS — --> Contaminant warning systems that monitor municipal drinking water systems in real time are the latest direct result of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, DC. No monitoring system is yet in place but software that can show when and where a...
Tags: contaminant, contamination, Sandia National Laboratories, software, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Research articles 2006-10-10
Detonators, rocket motors.(Did You Know That?)(Brief article)
DETONATORS, ROCKET MOTORS, and bulk explosive powders were among at least 410 items that Sandia National Laboratories could not account for when audited by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Inspector General. Auditors found other problems with explosives handling and processing at both Sandia and...
Tags: powder, Sandia National Laboratories, SOFTWARE, U.S. Department of Energy
Research articles 2006-10-01
Database for wind turbine materials.(Energy/power generation)
Researchers at Montana State University's Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering have developed a database of information to predict how the different composites used in modern wind turbine blades will perform during their lifetimes. The work is being conducted by Professor John Mandell and...
Tags: database, Montana State University, professor, Sandia National Laboratories, turbine
Research articles 2006-10-01
ANS Fusion Technology Meeting.
The 17th American Nuclear Society ANS Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy TOFE will be held on November 13-15, 2006 in Albuquerque, NM, as an embedded meeting during the 2006 Winter ANS Meeting in Albuquerque, NM on November 12-16. Albuquerque is home...
Tags: Air Force, INTERNET, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Sandia National Laboratories
Research articles 2006-09-01
Brijot Imaging Systems, Inc.(GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS)(BIS-WDS Prime weapon-detection system is used by Sandia National Laboratories)(Brief article)
Brijot Imaging Systems, Inc., has announced that its BIS-WDS Prime weapon-detection system has been selected by Sandia National Laboratories for testing as part of the Rail Security Pilot Project, a Department of Homeland Security DHS initiative.
Tags: Sandia National Laboratories, U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Research articles 2006-08-01
Translation time: design and analysis programs don't speak the same language; getting around that can be costly.
You would imagine that Sandia National Laboratories would employ a number of expert analysts to study every aspect of potential designs, and you'd imagine right. Sandia, in Albuquerque, N.M., is responsible for national-security hardware and software You would imagine that Sandia National Laboratories would employ a...
Tags: analysis, Sandia National Laboratories
Research articles 2006-10-01
Sandia researchers working on miniature terahertz device.(TESTING/CHARACTERIZATION)(Sandia National Laboratories)(Brief article)
The development of terahertz (T-rays) screening devices has begun to advance quickly, primarily due to the revolutionary development of terahertz quantum cascade lasers, say researchers at Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, N.M. They are deve The development of terahertz (T-rays) screening devices has begun to advance...
Tags: Sandia National Laboratories
Research articles 2007-04-01
Lab sprouts population growth in Livermore
Editors note: The following historical account is based on information obtained from Gary Drummonds Glimpses of Livermores Past adult education class. This is the final installment of Livermore 101. LIVERMORE -- Population began to boom in Livermore by the mid- 1900s. Military bases, a...
Tags: HEALTHCARE, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Sandia National Laboratories
Research articles 2006-04-07
Sandia Lab Receives $1 Million for Arsenic Rural Outreach Program
ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico ENS — --> New Mexico water systems do not have to deal with meeting new U.S. Environmental Protection Agency EPA arsenic standards on their own. Sandia National Laboratories has received nearly $1 million from the U.S. Department of Energy to reach out to the approximately 80...
Tags: Government, Quality, Regulations, Sandia National Laboratories, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Research articles 2005-11-21
STRESS IS WHERE YOU FIND IT
You'd think that the slow-roll jaunt the Space Shuttle Discovery made from the assembly building out to the launch pad in July would be the least stressful portion of its mission. And, you'd be right. The shuttle, its external tank, and solid rocket boosters sat on a mobile launch platform...
Tags: analysis, MARKETING, mobile, NASA, Sandia National Laboratories, shuttle, vibration
Research articles 2005-09-01
Priority no. 1: Homeland Security: federal agencies and the military are using wireless communications more for homeland security applications such as surveillance.(National Security Agency)
During a recent homeland security conference, an official of the National Security Agency NSA outlined the agency's plans to build its own secure wireless handset capable of voice and data communications over public networks, including CDMA, GSM and Wi-Fi. The handset,...
Tags: agency, camera, Government, National Security Agency, network, Sandia National Laboratories, security, UWB, Wi-Fi, WIRELESS
Research articles 2005-08-01
HARM'S WAY
Engineering software and microtechnology prepare the defense against bioterrorism. What would happen if a group of terrorists were to casually slink into the New York subway system and unleash an airborne contaminant like Sarin or mustard gas? That's a scenario no one wants to think about. Yet it...
Tags: agent, attack, bioterrorism, chip, contaminant, handheld, HARDWARE, NETWORKING, researcher, Sandia National Laboratories, Semiconductors, U.S. Department of Defense
Research articles 2005-08-01
Sandia Investigates Active Denial System for Security Applications
A multi-organizational team is adapting for Department of Energy use a technology that can help keep security adversaries out of DOE sites that contain nuclear assets.The DOE Office of Security and Safety Performance Assurance SSA is exploring the potential to use directed energy weapons technology sponsored by the Department of...
Tags: Sandia National Laboratories, SECURITY, U.S. Department of Defense
Research articles 2005-08-01
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