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(Knoxville News Sentinel) During a recent visit to Oak Ridge, DOE science chief William Brinkman said security agencies are supporting a plan, currently under review at the U.S. Office of Management and Budget, to use private financing for construction of a major new computer center at ORNL....5/21 |
 (Daily Tech) The scientists at ORNL estimate that billions of dollars is lost every year in waste heat from electronic devices like central processing units....5/18
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DOE
(DOE Press Release) While visiting the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colorado, Vice President Biden announced that a Colorado-based start-up company has signed the first option agreement under the Department of Energy's new "America's Next Top Energy Innovator" challenge....5/20
East Tennessee
(Knoxville News Sentinel) Observers say the Knoxville area has been successful at shaking off the Great Recession's cobwebs and adding jobs, many of which are coming through the creation or expansion of small- or mid-size businesses....5/22 |
National
(NPR) Authorities said at least 89 people have died in the southwest Missouri city of Joplin after a massive tornado blasted through with cataclysmic force, ripping into a hospital, upending cars and leaving only a forest of splintered tree trunks behind where entire neighborhoods once stood....5/23
State & Regional
(Tennessean) Tennessee's new education commissioner says he'd consider longer school days and years as one way the state can toss out antiquated education practices and help students improve more quickly....5/23
Other Stories
(BBC) An ash cloud from the Grimsvotn volcano in Iceland is expected to reach the UK by the early hours of Tuesday morning, the Met Office has said....5/23 |
(BBC) Researchers have set a new record for the rate of data transfer using a single laser: 26 terabits per second. At those speeds, the entire Library of Congress collections could be sent down an optical fibre in 10 seconds....5/22