The DoE does contribute a good deal to technology, for example through the NREL (National Renewable Energy Lab).
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"Scalability is really the critical issue, " said Robert McCormick, principal engineer at the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Lab in Colorado.
He was a co-recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1997 and headed the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Lab before becoming energy secretary in 2009.
Solar Energy Storage: Researchers at Berkeley Lab have developed a system for converting solar energy to chemical energy and, subsequently, to thermal energy.
And aside from security concerns, Prof Anderson believes that outside the lab, smart energy software fails to change people's behaviour.
They're two different missions -- investing in a science lab that will help on energy independence and create scientific breakthroughs, that's certainly fine.
The Giessens, who described their energy level as medium, found a small lab mix at the DeKalb shelter that they liked.
Prompted by the ongoing fiascos, energy department officials announced that the contract to manage the lab will be put to an open competition next year.
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The Department of Homeland Security declined to comment on behalf of Idaho National Lab, which is run by the Department of Energy but has joint programs with a number of government agencies.
The existing set of technology companies have taken us part of the way there, but bridging that gap will require energy tech companies that take these exciting new technologies from the lab to the living room.
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Senator Frank Murkowski, who chairs the House committee on Energy and Natural Resources, said the energy secretary made repeatedly given assurances that improved security measures at the lab were protecting America's nuclear secrets.
By contrast, Medivation's lab studies indicate Dimebon may work by protecting mitochondria, key energy factories inside cells that break down as cells die during Alzheimer's, Hung says.
Lab rats respond by seeking pleasure, including eating high-energy food.
Sujay, who is VP of business development at a social mobile gaming company in Los Angeles, undertook serious clean energy research at age 10, contributed to several biofuel publications out of a DuPont lab where he worked from age 13, and at 15 went to Harvard.
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When she was leading InnaPhase and Energy Solutions International she applied super-computing technologies to managing oil and gas pipelines and lab equipment.
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People still do not understand how a lab works, how sequencing a complete genome still remains a very, time, energy, memory, staff consuming activity.
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