Department of Energy News

West Virginia University materials scientist Xingbo Liu is helping to improve the use of coal and winning awards in the process.

On November 20 at 4:00 p.m. EST, a clockwise circulating beam was established in the LHC's 17-mile ring.

The program, dubbed Magellan, is funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act through the U.S. Department of Energy .

Agrivida Inc. has received a $2 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to develop genetically engineered feedstocks for biofuels production.

Georgia Tech researchers building an experimental new supercomputer say graphics processors may help pave the way toward future exascale machines, which would be 1,000 times faster than today's most powerful supercomputers .

ORNL and LANL scientists are exploring the large potential of the earth's soils to sequester carbon, with estimates claiming that new land-use practices could greatly reduce U.S. carbon emissions by as much as 25 percent.

Energy adviser and former Honeywell executive Maxine Savitz says there are enormous energy savings available through increased efficiency, as much as 30 percent by 2030.

JLab experiment E03-103 made precise new measurements of the EMC effect in a variety of light nuclei.

A global sell off on equity markets dragged down crude prices by nearly 3 percent today, the first decline this week.

A Chicago-area laboratory will get $8.8 million in federal stimulus cash to help find ways to make batteries more efficient for use in cars and other vehicles.

The Energy Department on Thursday is expected to report a build of 19 billion to 23 billion cubic feet of natural gas storage inventories for the week ended Nov.

November 18, 2009: CleanFUEL USA, a leading supplier of alternative fuel infrastructure and propane engine systems, today announced the debut of its latest Liquid Propane Injection system for the General Motors 6.0-liter engine.

SC09 -- QLogic Corp. , a leading supplier of high performance network infrastructure solutions, along with other high performance computing industry leaders, was awarded HPCwire's Editor's Choice for "Best HPC Collaboration Between Government and Industry" at SC09.

India may rank only a distant fourth in terms of carbon dioxide emissions, behind China, the United States and Russia, but its rapid economic growth rate coupled with aging and inefficient energy infrastructure suggest dire environmental consequences if "business as usual" continues.

A supercomputer built on microprocessors from Advanced Micro Devices topped the semiannual TOP500 list of the world's most powerful supercomputers, but others built on Intel 's technology dominated the rest of the list.

Maine is getting nearly $10 million in stimulus funding from the U.S. Department of Energy to support clean energy projects that promote lower energy use, reduce carbon pollution and create green jobs.

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The Advanced Gas Reactor Fuel Program, initiated by the Department of Energy in 2002, used INL's unique Advanced Test Reactor in a nearly three-year experiment to subject more than 300,000 nuclear fuel particles to an intense neutron field and temperatures around 1,250 degrees Celsius.

Homes and office buildings consume three-quarters of U.S. electricity, and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory wants to lower that figure by erecting what it believes will be the largest "net-zero" energy building in the world - one that produces as much power onsite as it uses.

Pollution typically declines during a recession. Not this time. Despite a global economic slump, worldwide carbon dioxide pollution jumped 2 percent last year, most of the increase coming from China, according to a study published online Tuesday.