[ad_1] “Artificial intelligence enables us to address some of humanity’s greatest challenges, and in this case, improve disaster resilience for populations around the world,” Toni Townes-Whitley, President of US Regulated Industries, Microsoft, said in a statement. “As evidenced by this consortium we have joined with the DOE and DoD, it’s critical that private and public […]
Category: department of energy
Energy Department unveils roadmap for a national quantum internet
[ad_1] The funding for the network would come from part of the nearly $1.3 billion budget devoted to the National Quantum Initiative. There’s already some progress toward these goals. The Wall Street Journal noted that Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago built a 52-mile quantum network through unused fiber, and it should expand […]
Department of Energy will invest $300 million in green transportation research
[ad_1] The second, meanwhile, has the agency’s Fuel Cells Technologies Office prepared to give up to $64 million to support the development of new hydrogen fuel cell technologies. Lastly, the department’s Bioenergy Technologies Office has $100 million to finance alternative fuel advancements. The goal here is to support breakthroughs that reduce the cost of biofuels […]
Trump admin blocks expanded rules against inefficient lightbulbs
[ad_1] On Friday the Department of Energy announced it will not allow amended standards for incandescent lamps to go into effect. Following the passage of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 there was talk of a “ban” on incandescent lights, but that wasn’t exactly what the rules mandated. While there has been a […]
X-ray lasers can spot elusive electron motion
[ad_1] X-ray lasers like SLAC’s Linac Coherent Lightsource have an undulator, or a magnet that converts some of the energy from electron beams into X-ray bursts. The team added two magnets in front of the undulator to shape the electron groups into narrow, very intense spikes (some nearly 500 megawatts) with a wide variety of […]
AMD and Cray are building the ‘world’s most powerful supercomputer’
[ad_1] “Frontier’s record-breaking performance will ensure our country’s ability to lead the world in science that improves the lives and economic prosperity of all Americans and the entire world,” Secretary of Energy Rick Perry said in a statement. “Frontier will accelerate innovation in AI by giving American researchers world-class data and computing resources to ensure […]
Researchers want to store excess renewable energy as methane
[ad_1] Their idea is to use microbes to convert excess renewable energy into methane, which could be burned as needed. In nature, the microorganism Methanococcus maripaludis consumes hydrogen and carbon dioxide and exudes methane. So, the researchers are using renewable energy-powered electrodes to split water and free its hydrogen atoms. Those hydrogen atoms are fed […]