Scientists have to determine how sensitive the earth is to added greenhouse gases before exploring whether and how much earth shading might help augment emissions reductions. If it's not very sensitive, emissions reductions might be enough to prevent the most disastrous effects of climate change. [Full Story…]
A technology that has potential for integrating energy from wind and solar power onto the electricity grid has been licensed to a Washington state firm. [Full Story…]
PNNL Scientist Jason Fuller is at the White House today to demonstrate how PNNL's GridLAB-D™ tool works to simulate all aspects of the energy grid from generation to end use, including markets, in unprecedented detail. [Full Story…]
The Washington State Academy of Sciences has named Subhash Singhal, a Battelle Fellow Emeritus at PNNL and a member or the National Academy of Engineering, its president-elect. [Full Story…]
In lithium ion battery materials, nickel doesn't spread itself out properly, slowing down the speed of charging and discharging. [Full Story…]
Columbia Basin College is starting a new, comprehensive program in cybersecurity. Battelle is contributing $118,000 for development and implementation of the first year of the Bachelor of Applied Science program. [Full Story…]
Darrell Fisher, a radiation scientist with the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, has been elected President of the Health Physics Society. [Full Story…]
The polaron model of semiconduction explains why electrons move so much slower in iron oxide than in a wire. [Full Story…]
PNNL’s detailed analysis of the resources needed to make, use and dispose of light bulbs found light-emitting diodes, also known as LEDs, are more environmentally friendly than compact fluorescent and incandescent lights. [Full Story…]
Scientists at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have found that their mass spectrometry-based technique, called PRISM, performed as accurately as standard clinical tests known as ELISAs. The technique should be able to speed up development of protein-specific diagnostic tests and treatment. [Full Story…]