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(Knoxville News Sentinel) ORNL communications director Billy Stair is part of a Tennessee delegation that's on a 10-day trade mission to China. The group (headed by Gov. Phil Bredesen) is courting new investments for Tennessee, and particularly studying China's work in solar and other renewable energy sources...10/26
(Knoxville News Sentinel) More than $150 million in funding for the first round of ARPA-E (Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy) projects was announced today, and among those 37 awards was $6.7 million for Delphi Automotive Systems LLC in Komomo, Indiana. The company will be supported by International Rectifier and Oak Ridge National Laboratory...10/26
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(ITVoir.com) The AMD Opteron processor-based and IBM PowerXCell processor-based “Roadrunner” system at Los Alamos National Labs again captures the number 1 spot on the bi-annual TOP500 Supercomputer Sites list, while the “Jaguar” supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory comes in at number 2 and is the highest performing entirely x86-based system ever on the survey...10/26 |
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State & Regional
(Chattanooga Times Free Press) ...Aided by projects at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and ongoing work to build a new lock at the Chickamauga Dam, Tennessee ranked fifth among the states in the number of jobs the government estimates were saved or created from contracts directly awarded by the federal government...10/27
(Knoxville News Sentinel) Appalachian leaders are seeking ways to use alternative energy initiatives to spark the 13-state region's long-sluggish economy...10/27
(Knoxville News Sentinel) When TVA adopted its last strategic plan in spring 2008, agency directors wanted to build at least three more nuclear reactors and buy several more gas-fired generators by 2020 to keep pace with the growing demand for electricity. But the slowing economy and rising concern about conservation since has caused some utility officials to rethink those plans...10/27
East Tennessee
Smokies to close roads for repairs
(Knoxville News Sentinel) The Great Smoky Mountains National Park will close 56 miles of park roads for improvements next spring and early next summer, the National Park Service announced Monday...10/27 |
National
(Wall Street Journal)
The Obama administration is expected Tuesday to name 100 utility projects that will share $3.4 billion in federal stimulus funding to speed deployment of advanced technology designed to cut energy use and make the electric-power grid more robust...10/27
DOE
(DOE Press Release) The Department of Energy today announced major funding for 37 ambitious research projects – including some that could allow intermittent energy sources like wind and solar to provide a steady flow of power, or use bacteria to produce automotive fuel from sunlight, water and carbon dioxide...10/26
(Tennessee Alumnus) Dennis McGowan, former chief of operations for the Fulton County [Georgia] Medical Examiner’s Office, rises to a podium, faces 40 or so members of the U.S. Department of Energy’s protective forces, and gives a rather unorthodox introduction to the course he’s about to teach. “With any luck, you’ll serve out your entire careers and never have to deal with the stuff we’re going to cover over the next three days,” he says...10/26
(WBIR.com) The second tank for Y-12's potable water system is now in place. Crews lifted the 215-ton tank on October 19, and as expected, it took all day. Several items still remain to be completed, however. Construction on the west water tank, as well as mechanical and electrical work for the entire system, hasn't been finished...10/26
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First Acoustic Hyperlens Boosts Power of Ultrasound and Sonar