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 (DOE Press Release) BMI Corporation, a company in South Carolina, and Oak Ridge National Laboratory have successfully developed a technology that will make semi trucks more fuel efficient with the potential to save millions of gallons of fuel. Utilizing Jaguar, the nation's most powerful computer, BMI Corp designed a SmartTruck UnderTray System, a set of integrated aerodynamic fairings that improve the aerodynamics of 18-wheeler long-haul trucks....2/8
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(PhysOrg) HYDROPOWER: Fishy behavior ...
BIOLOGY: Database a likely lifesaver ...
SENSORS: Setting standards ...
FUSION: Intense neutron detectives....2/8
(Ethanol Producer Magazine) The U.S. DOE's Oak Ridge National Laboratory has launched a new interactive website meant to integrate a wide variety of data and resources related to bioenergy in an attempt to provide a holistic view of bioenergy and inspire collaboration among industry experts....2/8 |
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DOE
 (Network World) The 10-petaflop IBM Blue Gene/Q supercomputer, known as "Mira", will be operational in the DoE's Argonne National Laboratory by 2012 and the lab said it anticipates the new supercomputer will be one of the fastest and most energy efficient supercomputers in the world thanks to a combination of new chip designs and efficient water cooling....2/8
(DOE Press Release) The U.S. Department of Energy today released One Million Electric Vehicles by 2015, an analysis of advances in electric vehicle deployment and progress to date in meeting President Obama's goal of putting one million electric vehicles on the road by 2015....2/8
(Knoxville News Sentinel) The U.S. Department of Energy has a special landfill on its Oak Ridge reservation that was set up specifically to receive hazardous and radioactive wastes generated during environmental cleanup activities. It also is approved for disposal of classified waste, which requires additional security....2/9 |
National
(New York Times) Protesters demanding the overthrow of President Hosni Mubarak appeared on Wednesday to have recaptured the initiative in their battle with his government, demonstrating a new ability to mobilize thousands to take over streets of the capital beyond their headquarters at Tahrir Square and to call workers out on strike....2/9
(Washington Post) House Republicans suffered an embarrassing setback Tuesday when they fell seven votes short of extending provisions of the Patriot Act, a vote that served as the first small uprising of the party's tea-party bloc....2/9 [Registration Required] |
(Vanderbilt University) Imagine a picture of the sky so big that it would take 500,000 high-definition TVs to view it at full resolution. The Sloan Digital Sky Survey-III collaboration, which includes Vanderbilt University, is making just such an image available to the public....2/8
(Washington Post) The world's newest astronomical observatory is defined by a field of 86 colored flags rippling across an ice-covered polar landscape. Each banner marks a line of glass-covered orbs that stretches down a mile and a half into the ice, like beads on a frozen string....2/7 [Registration Required]