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(Fleetowner.com) PeopleNet announced here at the annual ATA meeting a new wireless roadside-inspection solution in conjunction with the FMCSA Commercial Motor Vehicle Safety Technology Showcase held last week in Tennessee. Four leading PeopleNet customer fleets are participating in an operational test of the technology...PeopleNet said the solution is the result of a joint effort with FMCSA and the Oak Ridge National Laboratory to improve motor carrier safety through increasing the frequency of roadside inspections using wireless technologies...10/19
(Cellular News) In a laboratory at Ohio State University, an ongoing experiment is studying why batteries lose their ability to hold a charge as they age -- specifically lithium-ion batteries..."We can clearly see that an aged sample versus and unaged sample has much lower lithium concentration in the cathode," said [Giorgio] Rizzoni, director of the Center for Automotive Research at OSU. "It has essentially combined with anode material in an irreversible way." This research is being performed by Center for Automotive Research at OSU in collaboration with Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the National Institute of Standards Technology...10/20
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(PR-USA) Cray Inc., Data Direct Networks Inc., Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Oak Ridge National Laboratory today announced the incorporation of Open Scalable File Systems, Inc. (OpenSFS) -- a California nonprofit mutual benefit corporation. OpenSFS will support the requirements of the data-intensive computing community by fostering the practical development of high performance computing storage software technology...10/21
(NAFB News Service) Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory will soon publish a paper which concludes that indirect land use change, resulting from expanded corn ethanol production over the past decade, has likely been minimal to zero. The Oak Ridge analysis looked at real world data on land use from 2001 to 2008. The researchers found that empirical evidence does not support significant effects on U.S. commodity exports and other crops or cropland expansion in the U.S...10/20 |
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DOE
(Knoxville News Sentinel) For the second time, the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education has been named a Legacy of Stars site for safety and health excellence. The 2010 designation -- reportedly held by only nine Dept. of Energy sites -- is the second one for ORISE, which is managed by Oak Ridge Associated Universities. This is the second consecutive time ORISE has received the designation, which is held by only nine U.S. Department of Energy sites nationwide. ORISE first achieved this honor in 2008...10/20
(Knoxville News Sentinel) The Dept. of Energy Site Specific Advisory Board in Oak Ridge annually surveys residents in Oak Ridge and surrounding communities on issues pertaining to enviroinmental mangement and cleanup...10/20
(Knoxville News Sentinel) Greg Schaaff has been selected as the first Technology Fellow at the Y-12 National Security Complex. The new program is an effort to advance the science and technology base at Y-12 while the plant moves forward and evolves in the 21st century...10/20
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National
(USA Today) Along the Gulf Coast, scientists from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and their state counterparts are counting dead and oiled wildlife, testing water and photographing marshes and shorelines to document damage done by the oil spill, which followed an explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig and the blowout of BP's well...10/20
East Tennessee
(The Daily Beacon) The UT Presidential Search Committee selected presidential candidates Brian Noland and Joe DiPietro on Wednesday as nominees to be considered by the UT Board of Trustees Friday for the position of UT system president...10/21
State & Regional
(PR Newswire) Notwithstanding its economic and political problems, more Americans would like to live in California than in any other state...10/19
(Knoxville News Sentinel) A TVA economic development program has identified 12 sites in the Southeast as prime locations for developing the region's data center industry...10/21 |
