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(WBIR.com) A new generation of car batteries just arrived in Oak Ridge.
"This is what the tape looks like when it comes off. It peels off in a nice sheet. So you can imagine this being able to be cut and sized appropriately for the battery," said ORNL scientist Beth Armstrong, while peeling off tape that goes into the new batteries. The process is similiar to current methods used to make batteries used in hybrid cars. What's different is that these batteries are lithium ion batteries.
"Lithium ion batteries such as this one have the potential for the full electrification of the drive range," said ORNL research tem leader Claus Daniel...11/2
(TechNews World) MainGear has introduced Shift, a new line of gaming desktop PCs designed to offer high performance, easy component customization and efficient temperature control....What this computer shares with supercomputers used in places like the Oak Ridge National Laboratory is a heavy emphasis on the processing ability found in latest-generation graphics chips...11/2
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(Forbes) General Electric builds new nuclear plants, fixes broken ones and makes old ones generate more power. It packages reactor fuel into bundles for nuke operators. There is one lucrative stop on the nuclear fuel train where GE doesn't collect a toll, though: enriching uranium into nuclear fuel...General Electric has now decided it wants into the enrichment business and is doing so with an unproved but potentially disruptive technology. It is a highly classified system of using lasers to extract fissile uranium more cheaply and efficiently than methods used today...Kent Williams, a senior researcher at Oak Ridge National Laboratory who has worked on other laser enrichment technologies, says laser concentration can be more efficient simply because it doesn't have to be repeated as often. Still, using lasers to enrich uranium has been tried and abandoned before. The U.S. spent $2 billion on a laser technology called Avlis in the 1980s before giving up...10/29 |
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National
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The pain of the financial crisis has economists striving to understand precisely why it happened and how to prevent a repeat. For that task, John Geanakoplos of Yale University takes inspiration from Shakespeare's "Merchant of Venice."...11/3
State & Regional
(Knoxville News Sentinel) Tennessee earned another Top 5 finish in a national business-climate ranking, but fell slightly compared to last year’s finish...11/2
East Tennessee
(Knoxville News Sentinel) Responding to residents' concerns, the Tennessee Valley Authority has scrapped plans to allow unfettered public access to an observation post overlooking the Kingston ash spill cleanup site...11/3
(Knoxville News Sentinel) ...Last week, KUB won a $3.585 million federal grant to install smart meters at about 3,800 homes in the University of Tennessee and Fort Sanders service...11/3 |
DOE
(Knoxville News Sentinel) Oak Ridge retirees didn't get a much-desired pension increase during the past year, but some positive things happened, the president of the Coalition of Oak Ridge Retired Employees said Monday at the group's annual meeting...11/3
(DOE Press Release) Today, U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu invited energy ministers from across the Western Hemisphere to attend the Energy and Climate Ministerial of the Americas in Washington, DC on April 15-16, 2010. This Ministerial will bring energy leaders together to advance the goals of the Energy and Climate Partnership of the Americas, announced by President Obama in Trinidad and Tobago earlier this year...11/2
(DOE Press Release) Energy Secretary Steven Chu today announced that the Department of Energy is providing up to $5.5 million in funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to support the X PRIZE Foundation’s work to inspire a new generation of energy efficient vehicles...11/2 |
Little X-Plane Pushes Bottom Edge of the Envelope