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A Vision for the Modern Grid

Given the vision, one can create the alignment necessary to inspire passion, investment, and progress toward an advanced US grid for the 21st century. A modernized grid is a necessary enabler for a successful society in the future. Modernizing today's grid will require a unified effort by all stakeholders rallying...

Tags: U.S., National Energy Technology Laboratory, Vision, Grid

White papers 2007-03-01

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Nvidia: Next big supercomputer player?

Nvidia unveiled its next-generation graphics processing unit GPU architecture, dubbed Fermi, and announced a key supercomputing win with the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The takeaway: Graphics and visualization are becoming key to scientific discoveries. And Nvidia could be a major player. Oak Ridge's supercomputer will be used...

Tags: Supercomputer, NVidia Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Graphics, Supercomputing, GPU, Fermi, Oak Ridge, CNET News, JMP Securities Alex Gauna, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-01

Getting smarter about the smart grid. Standards group to tackle interoperability.

OASIS aka the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards is forming a new committee that will focus on creating Web services models for things such as exchanging dynamic pricing, reliability and emergency signal alerts across the smart grid. The group is called the OASIS Energy...

Tags: The Group Inc., Interoperability, Grid, OASIS, Standards, NIST, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-08-27

Academic Competition Leads the Way to a New Electric Car

The University of Ontario Institute of Technology UOIT is one of 17 North American Universities participating in EcoCAR: The NeXt Challenge, a three-year engineering competition established by the United States Department of Energy and General Motors, and managed by Argonne National Laboratory. The challenge was to integrate an electric motor...

Tags: Car, Electric Car, Siemens AG, Performance Management, Storage, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Hardware

Case studies 2009-07-01

Billion-year ultra-dense memory chip developed

There's always been an inverse relationship between density and durability when it comes to data storage. Today's silicon memory chips contain a lot of density, but with a lifespan of just a few decades, they lack durability.  Yet primitive forms of storage such as information carved in stone are highly...

Tags: Shuttle, Nanotube, Carbon Nanotube, Nanoparticle, Memory Chip, Chip, Memory Device, Shuttle Memory, Nanotechnology, Storage, Emerging Technologies, Hardware, Chris Jablonski

Blog posts 2009-06-04

Here comes some R and D: nanotech in carville

Some brave Angelenos will be working on nano-tech for combatting global warming. Yes, right there amid freeways and palpable smog and all the gas-burning cars in Los Angeles, some engineers will be using federal money to find nano-ways to more efficiently capture solar energy. Also, they're looking for...

Tags: Alternative Energy, Car, California, Nanotechnology, DOE, Telecom & Utilities, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-05-05

Thirsty ethanol? An insider's view.

An exec from an energy company has repliedc to my earlier blog on a study of ethanol production and its water requirements. Here are some comments from Growth Energy’s CEO, Tom Buis. “America’s ethanol producers recognize that water is a precious natural resource that must be...

Tags: Production, Ethanol Production, Recruitment & Selection, Strategy, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Management, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-04-14

Fusion, or confusion?

Laser chamber. National Ignition Facility, Livermore. An MSM columnist seems to be touting fusion as a future cure for our energy problems. Turning mass into energy. E=mc2. Fusion powers the planet as it does our Sun. Nirvana for all except the oil...

Tags: Fusion, Wiki, Online Communications, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-03-16

Algae to oil: big step toward realization

One of the federal energy labs charged with getting us to the next generation of American energy is thinking "algae." I recently blogged about Origin Oil in southern California, their algae-based bioreactors designed to produce hydrocarbons to compete with traditional fossil fuels. Origin's tech is targeted at fundamentally...

Tags: Food, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-02-22

Obama's Dr. Energy

The nominee for next Energy Secretary faced his Senate hearing today. Dr. Steven Chu, head of the Lawrence Berkeley Lab, has been outspoken in his views on global warming, energy conservation and fossil fuels. For today's purpose, getting confirmed, the Nobel Prize winning physicist tempered some of his...

Tags: Dr., Obama, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-01-13

Microsoft still fighting a losing battle against Google

Microsoft still fighting a losing battle against Googlebut MS has shown they can't think outside the box...all they do is make 'me too' products and add on gimmicky low utility features like "the social" with the Zune. Seach is not different... they add nothing to the mix that really...

Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Zune, Apple iPod

Discussion threads 2008-11-26

The time is now for a Microsoft-Yahoo search deal

The time is now for a Microsoft-Yahoo search dealThe chattering class???"The patience over Microsoft and Yahoo's never-ending deal dance is wearing thin among the chattering class–bloggers, analysts and folks sick of following this dysfunctional courtship" ...Why would companies like Microsoft and Yahoo let their business strategies be driven by "the...

Tags: Yahoo Search, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-11-11

All that solar energy is wasted overnight, but now there's a way to capture it

The folks at the Idaho National Laboratory say they've come up with a way to make solar energy work round the clock. The sporadic nature of solar energy and the need thus to store day-time solar for night-time use has long been one of the biggest bugaboos cited by...

Tags: Solar Energy, Telecom & Utilities, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-08-23

A new career: isotope designer

According to a Michigan State University MSU news release, 'Made-to-order isotopes hold promise on science's frontier,' nuclear physicists can now start a new career as isotope designers. These scientists can build specific rare isotopes to solve scientific problems and open doors to new technologies. The lead researcher says this approach...

Tags: Michigan State University, Nanotechnology, Semiconductors, Professional Development, Productivity, Emerging Technologies, Hardware, Career, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-05-10

The Texas petawatt laser

According to the University of Texas at Austin in a very short news release, the most powerful laser in the world fired up last week. The researchers said that this laser is 2,000 times more powerful than all power plants in the United States. But, as in previous experiments with...

Tags: Laser, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-04-08

Money flowing into investments on route distant from Wall Street

One Silicon Valley venture capital firm announced they'll put a quarter-billion dollars into green tech. Runs counter to the frenzied state of Wall Street and the Federal Reserve where they think a bunch of bankers missing their annual bonuses is somehow a really important economic problem. Meanwhile, energy...

Tags: Green Technology, Wall, Investment, Finance, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-04-07

Hybrid cars and the power grid

Today, people who care about the environment are attracted by hybrid electric cars. But in 2020, hybrid cars and trucks might represent 25% of all the vehicles in the U.S. Of course, these vehicles will need to be plugged to the power grid to recharge their batteries. A recent Oak...

Tags: Consumer, Car, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Grid, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-03-13

Get Smart: Researchers call results of GridWise energy demand-response project encouraging

If this blog takes the form of a news story, that's because it kinda is. In some ways this is a phenomenon I’ve been writing about for years -- the fact that headless devices like sensors and meters and intelligent appliances will start driving more traffic on the Internet than...

Tags: Homeowner, Grid, Technology, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-01-09

Red shift meets event horizon

I was amazed to read reports of a dinner last week at which top Sun executives sitting around the same table seem to have made statements that totally contradict one another. On the one hand, Greg Papadopoulos, Sun CTO and executive vice president of R&D, was telling...

Tags: Danger, Data Center, Sun Microsystems Inc., Solar Energy, Power Generation, Grid, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2007-12-13

Haephrati technique used to crack US research lab

The New York Times is reporting that they obtained a copy of a report from US-CERT that attacks eminating from Chinese IP addresses successfully targeted employees of Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee. In addition to research in energy, nanotechnology and "isotope production", Oak Ridge ...

Tags: Technique, New York Times Co., Attack, Homeland Security, Nanotechnology, Wiki, Security, Government, Emerging Technologies, Online Communications, Richard Stiennon

Blog posts 2007-12-10