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(The Seattle Times) While there is plenty of research and information about how electromagnetic fields from power lines affect animal life on land, it is unknown how marine life would respond to tidal turbines on the ocean floor. That's why super-sized electromagnetic coils are being used in an experiment in the aquatic lab at the Sequim Marine Research Operation for Pacific Northwest National Laboratory near the mouth of Sequim Bay, said Charlie Brandt, the lab's director...As part of the project, scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee are examining how electromagnetic fields created by hydrokinetic devices affect freshwater animals in rivers and streams...10/6
(News Blaze) Low-income families under stress from high utility bills can find relief through a new energy savings program supported by UT-Battelle...UT-Battelle has donated more than $5.7 million to civic and cultural outreach initiatives and economic development programs since becoming the managing contractor of ORNL in 2000...10/6 |
(Examiner.com) Simulations done by a supercomputer at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory are giving a peek into what contributed to the origins of life. A team of researchers led by the director of ORNL's Center for Molecular Biophysics, Jeremy Smith, used a simulation of molecular dynamics to analyze an organic chemical reaction that could have contributed to the RNA (Ribonucleic acids) evolution into the first life forms on Earth...10/5
(L&Si Online) Bandit Lites going green might have taken many more years had it not been for Jackson Browne and Crosby, Stills and Nash...Bandit worked with teams from Oak Ridge National Labs and a new firm called GRNLite to develop products that were high quality, bright, feature laden and affordable. After a great deal of collaboration with the think tank in Oak Ridge a number of fixtures emerged that fit the bill...10/6
(Knoxville News Sentinel) The long-contested, much disrupted cleanup of old hot cells at Oak Ridge National Laboratory is apparently getting underway, in a real way, although there are lingering issues from contract protests. Safety and Ecology Corp. of Knoxville won the contract award valued at about $50 million back in the spring, but there have been ongoing protests of that work and DOE at one point overrode the protest hold on the contract -- citing the urgency of the threat posed by highly radioactive leaks at the site...10/5
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DOE
(Knoxville News Sentinel) The U.S. Department of Energy received an enormous amount of money via the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, and one of the requirements was that the money be invested quickly in order to create jobs and help rebuild the economy...10/6
(DOE Press Release) The U.S. Department of Energy announced today that it will hold the second annual ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit February 28 - March 2, 2011 at the Gaylord Convention Center just outside Washington, D.C...10/6
State & Regional
(Tennessean) TVA will hold a public hearing in Nashville today on the Tennessee Valley Authority's future in terms of the mix of its power sources, including nuclear...10/6
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National
(CS Monitor) The United States may still have the world’s largest economy, but it is no longer the economic engine the world looks to for pulling out of a recession – at least not this time...10/6
East Tennessee
(WBIR.com) Members of the University of Tennessee Presidential Search Advisory Council met Wednesday morning to discuss the top 15 candidates for the next president of the university...10/6
(Tennessee Alumnus) UT Knoxville’s nuclear engineering graduate program is now a top 10 program, according to the U.S. News and World Report 2011 graduate rankings. The program was ranked ninth in the country, rising three spots from last year...10/6 |
