LIVERMORE, California, Nov. 13 -- The U.S. Department of Energy Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory issued the following news: The architectural design of electrodes offers new opportunities for next-generation electrochemical energy storage devices (EESDs) by increasing surface area, thickness and storage capacity. But conventional thick electrodes increase ion diffusion length and cause larger ion-concentration gradients, limiting reaction kinetics, including storage capacity. To overcom  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 13 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy issued the following news: Large-scale renewable energy and battery energy storage projects have a pivotal role as the United States moves to a clean energy system. Where and how these facilities are sited is a complex process that involves many considerations and parties. To further support state and local governments and Tribal nations with this process, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Nov. 13 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: The world's fastest supercomputer could help bring up-to-the-minute, pinpoint weather forecasts weeks in advance to your laptop, tablet or phone. Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory used Frontier, the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility's 2-exaflop HPE Cray EX supercomputing system, to train the world's largest artificial inte  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Nov. 12 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: A research team led by the University of Maryland has been nominated for the Association for Computing Machinery's Gordon Bell Prize. The team is being recognized for developing a scalable, distributed training framework called AxoNN, which leverages GPUs to rapidly train large language models, or LLMs. Winners of the Gordon Bell Prize will be announced at the Inter  more

LIVERMORE, California, Nov. 14 -- The U.S. Department of Energy Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory issued the following news: Technology designed to aid on-the-field diagnostics for military applications is gaining a wider reach as Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and BioVind, LLC achieved a milestone in their partnership: the exclusive licensing of LLNL pathogen diagnostics technology focused on oil and gas applications. The technology, called BioID, is a rapid and portable m  more

ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, Nov. 13 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories issued the following news release: Batteries in electric vehicles can fail quickly, sometimes catching fire without much warning. Sandia National Laboratories is working to detect these failures early and provide sufficient warning time to vehicle occupants. While electric vehicles have systems to detect performance issues with lithium-ion batteries, these systems are not focused on imminent safety  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 13 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory issued the following news: By Jeanne Jackson DeVoe For early career fusion scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (https://www.energy.gov/) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) and Princeton University, the Second Annual Research SLAM is the closest they might come to talent shows like "The Voice" or "America's Got Talent." In this contest, scientists get to show off their ability to clearly  more

GOLDEN, Colorado, Nov. 14 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory issued the following news: * * * NREL-Led Research Reveals Amount of Humidity Considered Key to Performance * * * Energy stored in thermochemical materials can effectively heat indoor spaces, particularly in humid regions, according to researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). Working with industry representatives and researchers from  more