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(Brighter Energy) The Tennessee Solar Institute has awarded more than $7 million in grants to 21 businesses for businesses working in or seeking work in the solar industry. Also on Monday the TSI, a center of excellence between the University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, invited applications for a further $7.25 million in grant funding....12/14
 (Oak Ridger) A team led by Jerome Baudry of the University of Tennessee-ORNL Center for Molecular Biophysics adapted a widely-used existing software to allow supercomputers such as ORNL's Jaguar to sift through immense molecular databases and pinpoint chemical compounds as potential drug candidates....12/14
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(Semiconductor Today) A $3.9m award from the US Department of Energy aims to develop a compact and highly efficient silicon carbide battery charger for plug-in hybrid electric vehicles. The grant will benefit a collaborative partnership that includes five private and public entities: project leader Arkansas Power Electronics International Inc of Fayetteville, AK; its private partner the National Center for Reliable Electric Power Transmission at the University of Arkansas; Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Cree Inc; and Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc....12/14 |
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DOE
(DOE Press Release) U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu today announced the Department is now accepting applications for up to $30 million in total funding for small-scale process integration projects that support the development of advanced biofuels that will be able to replace gasoline or diesel without requiring special upgrades or changes to the vehicle or fueling infrastructure....12/14
(DOE Press Release) Secretary Steven Chu today announced the completion of a new cool roof installation on the Department of Energy's Headquarters West Building. There was no incremental cost to adding the cool roof as part of the roof replacement project and it will save taxpayers $2,000 every year in building energy costs....12/14 |
National
(Washington Post) Weeks after swearing off earmarks, many senators stand to gain tens of millions of dollars for pet projects in a massive $1.2 trillion measure....12/15 [Registration Required]
(NPR) The White House plans to nominate Carolyn Lerner to run the Office of Special Counsel, which represents federal whistle-blowers and other victims of discrimination within the government....12/15
East Tennessee
(Knoxville News Sentinel) Members of Oak Ridge's Board of Zoning Appeals Tuesday voted to grant a variance to Omega Consultants Inc. to allow "hazardous and nuclear material" functions at a building located in front of the former K-25 uranium enrichment site....12/15 |
(New York Times) According to Arctic biologists, the quintessential example of megafaunal fortitude in the face of really bad weather is the musk ox, or Ovibos moschatus, a blocky, short-legged, highly social ungulate with distinctively curved horns and long hair that looks like shag carpeting circa 1975....12/14
(Washington Post) Light pollution may give certain male songbirds a reproductive edge, according to German scientists who have been studying small birds called blue tits for the past decade....12/13 [Registration Required]
(BBC) Scientists think they now have the best evidence yet for an ice volcano on Titan, the largest moon of Saturn. The Cassini probe has spotted a 1,500m-high mountain with a deep pit in it, and what looks like a flow of material on the surrounding surface....12/15