en-us Sat, 07 Nov 2009 19:00 EDT http://www.ornl.gov/info/news/pulse/ DOE Pulse highlights work being done at the Department of Energy's national laboratories. DOE's laboratories house world-class facilities where more than 30,000 scientists and engineers perform cutting-edge research spanning DOE's science, energy, National security and environmental quality missions. webmaster@ornl.gov http://www.ornl.gov/info/news/pulse/ http://www.ornl.gov/ornlhome/rss/doe_pulse.gif Sat, 7 Nov 2009 19:30:00 EDT http://www.ornl.gov/info/news/pulse/ Ninaad Desai, an electrical engineer at the DOE Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), spends half her time carrying out short-circuit analysis of the Laboratory???s power equipment, and the other half overseeing the controls of the experimental power systems for the National Spherical Torus Experiment (NSTX), a fusion device. Sat, 7 Nov 2009 19:30:00 EDT http://www.ornl.gov/info/news/pulse/ The sun may soon power many more homes and appliances, thanks to chemists at Idaho National Laboratory and Idaho State University. Sat, 7 Nov 2009 19:30:00 EDT http://www.ornl.gov/info/news/pulse/ BOSS, the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey, is the most ambitious attempt yet to map the expansion history of the Universe using the technique known as baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO). Sat, 7 Nov 2009 19:30:00 EDT http://www.ornl.gov/info/news/pulse/ Researchers at DOE's National Renewable Energy Laboratory and Oak Ridge National Laboratory are trying to find out if a gasoline ???diet??? of traditional fuel blended with increased levels of ethanol will be good for the environment and economy without hurting cars and small engines. Sat, 7 Nov 2009 19:30:00 EDT http://www.ornl.gov/info/news/pulse/ The National Energy Technology Laboratory completed field deployment of a solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) test system operated on partially cleaned coal syngas at the NCCC/PSDF facility in Wilsonville, Ala. Sat, 7 Nov 2009 19:30:00 EDT http://www.ornl.gov/info/news/pulse/ When you are working with the world's fastest computers, you need software that can keep up. Sat, 7 Nov 2009 19:30:00 EDT http://www.ornl.gov/info/news/pulse/ DOE's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has received $3 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act dollars to capture and transport 1 million tons of carbon dioxide from San Francisco Bay Area power plants and inject it more than two miles underground.