Vorbeck Materials has licensed an enhanced battery technology that was developed at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and could reduce the time it takes to charge cell phones and other battery-powered devices. [Full Story…]
PNNL’s energy management technology for smart grid operations has been licensed to Calico Energy Services of Bellevue, Wash. [Full Story…]
PNNL has been awarded $2.8 million to adapt its energy-efficient adsorption chilling system for field military bases. The system could use up to half as much diesel as today’s technology, which could also save soldiers’ lives by reducing attacks on troops who transport fuel in the battlefield. [Full Story…]
A new $17 million supercomputer coming soon to a national laboratory near you. [Full Story…]
PNNL and the University of Washington are forming the Northwest Institute for Advanced Computing to ensure the next generation of computers and the methods used to run them can address the most pressing problems facing science and society. [Full Story…]
PNNL’s Will Shaw will describe plans for Reference Facility for Offshore Renewable Energy, a Department of Energy Facility where offshore wind power measurement technologies will be tested, at
the 93rd American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting. [Full Story…]
Brian Abrahamson replaces Jerry Johnson as CIO at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. [Full Story…]
PNNL has been recognized for commercializing technologies or processes that can store large amounts of renewable energy until it’s needed, fight cancer and detect explosives. [Full Story…]
The American Physical Society is inducting two PNNL researchers as fellows, bringing the number of APS Fellows at PNNL to 11. [Full Story…]
PNNL researchers will discuss improving solar power forecasting, the resources needed to grow algae for biofuel, and predicting the environmental impacts of ocean energy at the 2012 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting. [Full Story…]
