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New National Lab Supercomputer Inches America Closer to the Exascale Era New National Lab Supercomputer Inches America Closer to the Exascale Era July 13, 2019 Berkeley / CA / USA - View towards Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) at UC Berkeley is a US national lab that conducts scientific research on behalf of the Department Energy Sundry Photography/istockphoto Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. email Perlmut...

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Adapted from a release by Bill Schulz, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. A five-year quest to map the universe and unravel the mysteries of dark energy began officially on May 17, 2021, at Kitt Peak National Observatory near Tucson, Arizona. The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) will capture and study the light from more than 30 million galaxies and other distant objects, allowing scientists to construct a 3-D map of the universe with unprecedented detail. DESI is an internationa...

by Bill Schulz, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. A five-year quest to map the universe and unravel the mysteries of dark energy began officially on May 17, 2021, at Kitt Peak National Observatory near Tucson, Arizona. The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) will capture and study the light from more than 30 million galaxies and other distant objects, allowing scientists to construct a 3-D map of the universe with unprecedented detail. DESI is an international science collaboratio...

25 May 2021 A new study published by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s Electricity Markets and Policy group (EMP) shows that the queue of new wind and solar capacity in the United States scheduled for connection to the grid has reached record levels, alongside the new capacity of battery storage projects. “We find that the total capacity active in the queues is growing year-over-year, with over 750 GW of generation and an estimated 200 GW of storage capacity as of the end of 2020�...

Record 462GW of solar capacity seeking grid interconnection across the US Email A solar-plus-storage installation in North Carolina. More than one-third of the solar in the interconnection queues is proposed as a hybrid plant. Image: Lockheed Martin. A record amount of solar capacity and energy storage is currently in US transmission interconnection queues, according to a new study from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). At 462GW, solar accounts for most o...

Published: 24 May 2021, 11:22 By: Image: 8minute Solar Energy. Standalone battery energy storage can potentially offer better value to the US electricity system than pairing batteries directly with solar or wind generation, but the pros and cons of each approach vary greatly from project to project. This is largely because siting the resources separately means the optimum location where batteries in particular offer most value to the electricity network can be chosen, according to...

Thinning forests to prevent wildfires include the removal of diseased trees and other debris by private, state, and federal land managers. The byproduct of that thinning is called woody biomass....

Berkeley Lab scientists take soil samples at Blodgett Forest (Credit: Roy Kaltschmidt/Berkeley Lab) A new study led by Berkeley Lab has provided the first physical evidence that warmer temperatures lead to a significant drop in the stored carbon stock in deep forest soils. An experiment in California’s Sierra Nevada forest found that the carbon content in subsoils dropped 33% over five years. The research team, led by Margaret Torn, artificially heated plots of soil down to 1 meter deep by 4 ...

Scientists Have Developed Truly Biodegradable Plastics Typical plastics, even ones dubbed as biodegradable, may not biodegrade in certain environments. Since the 1950s, only 600 million metric tons of plastic have been recycled, compared to the 4.9 billion metric tons in landfill or polluting the planet. Researchers at the University of California have found a way to make plastics disappear, using plastic-eating enzymes. Please share this article - Go to very top of page, right hand side, for s...