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(Oak Ridger)
Former Vice President Al Gore visited Oak Ridge National Laboratory with representatives of a venture capital firm on Tuesday to discuss new technologies. Barbara Penland, ORNL deputy director of communications and external relations, said Gore came with Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, a venture capital firm involved in climate technology.
According to its website, KPCB is actively working with entrepreneurs to solve the climate crisis, and Gore has joined KPCB as a partner. KPCB has also formed an alliance with Generation Investment Management, co-founded by Gore and David Blood in 2004. Blood is retired as chief executive officer of Goldman Sachs Asset Management...ORNL's Penland said the firm and former Vice President Gore were to be briefed on the lab's "cutting-edge technologies.”...8/11 |
(Science Daily) Superconducting materials, which transmit power resistance-free, are found to perform optimally when high- and low-charge density varies on the nanoscale level, according to research performed at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory...8/9
(Science News) A new experiment using powerful X-ray beams has found a surprising pattern lurking in a superconductor, a material that conducts electricity without energy-sapping resistance. In a particular kind of superconductor, oxygen atoms are physically arranged as a fractal, showing the same pattern at small and large scales...The finding is “very interesting, since it provides a much-welcomed fresh view of the high temperature superconductivity problem,” comments physicist Elbio Dagotto of the University of Tennessee in Knoxville and the Oak Ridge National Laboratory...8/11
(Knoxville News Sentinel) Preliminary work is continuing on a major Recovery Act-funded cleanup project at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, despite ongoing protests of the award (with a potential value of $50 million) and a new ruling by the Small Business Administration that could throw a wrench in the proceedings...8/11
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DOE
(DOE Press Release) U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced today the selection of 15 projects to develop technologies aimed at safely and economically storing carbon dioxide in geologic formations...8/11
State & Regional
(Knoxville News Sentinel) ...The purpose of the exercise is to sharpen abilities to stay ahead of events. Part of the test deals with technical issues such as when to open or close flood gates, operate turbines, fill up reservoirs and other actions, but communication also is vital, [David] Bowling said...8/12 |
National
(Wall Street Journal)
One in 12 babies born in the U.S. in 2008 were offspring of illegal immigrants, according to a new study, an estimate that could inflame the debate over birthright citizenship...8/12
East Tennessee
(Oak Ridger)
She was a young, beautiful starlet when she officially visited Oak Ridge for the opening of the city's gates and the American Museum of Atomic Energy -- now called the American Museum of Science and Energy...8/10 |
Former VP Gore visits lab with climate technologies firm reps
Actress here when museum, gates opened