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NREL invites robots to help make wind turbine blades

DOE/National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have successfully leveraged robotic assistance in the manufacture of wind turbine blades, allowing for the elimination of difficult working conditions for humans and the potential to improve the consistency of the product.

Journal: Wind Energy

NREL proof of concept shows path to easier recycling of solar modules

DOE/National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The use of femtosecond lasers to form glass-to-glass welds for solar modules would make the panels easier to recycle, according to a proof-of-concept study conducted by researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL).

Journal: IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics

When working out, males are programmed to burn more fat, while females recycle it—at least in rats

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Vigorous exercise burns fat more in males than in females, but the benefits of exercise are broad for both sexes.

Journal: Nature Metabolism
Funder: National Institutes of Health

Researchers offer US roadmap to close the carbon cycle

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and six other Department of Energy national laboratories have developed a United States-based perspective for achieving net-zero carbon emissions. The roadmap was recently published in the journal Nature Reviews Chemistry.

Journal: Nature Reviews Chemistry

Roadmap to close the carbon cycle

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Reaching net-zero carbon emissions goals requires finding transformative paths to manage carbon in difficult-to-electrify economic sectors.

Journal: Nature Reviews Chemistry
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

New findings point to an Earth-like environment on ancient Mars

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A research team using the ChemCam instrument onboard NASA’s Curiosity rover discovered higher-than-usual amounts of manganese in lakebed rocks within Gale Crater on Mars, which indicates that the sediments were formed in a river, delta, or near the shoreline of an ancient lake. The results were published today in Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets.A research team using the ChemCam instrument onboard NASA’s Curiosity rover discovered higher-than-usual amounts of manganese in lakebed rocks within Gale Crater on Mars, which indicates that the sediments were formed in a river, delta, or near the shoreline of an ancient lake. The results were published today in Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets.

Journal: Journal of Geophysical Research Planets

Electric vehicle drivers can estimate their personalized fuel savings with new Argonne tool

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Reports and Proceedings

Argonne National Laboratory's new tool lets drivers estimate personalized fuel savings for electric vehicles, based on local factors.

Curran named Fellow of SAE, ASME

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

Scott Curran, group leader for Fuel Science and Engine Technologies Research at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has been named a Fellow of SAE International and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, or ASME.

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