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- A Baking Soda Solution for Clean Hydrogen Storage https://www.pnnl.gov/news-media/baking-soda-solution-clean-hydrogen-storage 30 comments
- Efficient dehumidifier makes air conditioning a breeze (2014) https://www.pnnl.gov/news-media/efficient-dehumidifier-makes-air-conditioning-breeze 209 comments
- Yarn-like material collects largest amount of uranium from seawater to date https://www.pnnl.gov/news/release.aspx?id=4514 6 comments
- Nanorods: water-oozing material could help quench thirst http://www.pnnl.gov/news/release.aspx?id=4282 15 comments
- Unexpected discovery leads to a better battery http://www.pnnl.gov/news/release.aspx?id=4269 4 comments
- Algae to crude oil: Million-year natural process takes minutes in the lab http://www.pnnl.gov/news/release.aspx?id=1029 126 comments
- Coastal Hurricanes Around the World are Intensifying Faster https://www.pnnl.gov/news-media/coastal-hurricanes-around-world-are-intensifying-faster 4 comments climate
- Vigorous exercise burns fat more in males than in females—an unexpected finding from the largest study to date involving more than 100 scientists to explore how exercise affects the body. The study subjects were rats, which share much of their basic physiology with people. https://www.pnnl.gov/news-media/when-working-out-males-are-programmed-burn-more-fat-while-females-recycle-it-least-rats 93 comments science
- People who engage in vigorous workouts may be more susceptible to viral respiratory infections in the following days. A new study of firefighters after vigorous exercise found a decrease in inflammation which leads to better breathing but leaves the body more vulnerable to viral infections. https://www.pnnl.gov/news-media/vigorous-exercise-rigorous-science-what-scientists-learned-firefighters-training 33 comments science
- Adding a simple sugar derivative helped to create a flow battery (a design optimized for electrical grid energy storage) that maintained its capacity to store and release energy for more than a year of continuous charge and discharge, with minimal loss of capacity https://www.pnnl.gov/news-media/next-generation-flow-battery-design-sets-records 42 comments science
- Researchers unveil the least costly carbon capture system to date - down to $39 per metric ton. https://www.pnnl.gov/news-media/scientists-unveil-least-costly-carbon-capture-system-date 14 comments environment
- Researchers unveil the least costly carbon capture system to date - down to $39 per metric ton. https://www.pnnl.gov/news-media/scientists-unveil-least-costly-carbon-capture-system-date 64 comments upliftingnews
- Researchers unveil the least costly carbon capture system to date - down to $39 per metric ton. https://www.pnnl.gov/news-media/scientists-unveil-least-costly-carbon-capture-system-date 154 comments science
- The world's current climate pledges are insufficient to keep global warming below 1.5 degrees Celsius. We will overshoot. In new research, scientists chart several potential courses in which the overshoot period is shortened, in some cases by decades. https://www.pnnl.gov/news-media/world-will-probably-warm-beyond-15-degree-limit-peak-warming-can-be-curbed 391 comments science
- AskScience AMA Series: We're Hayden Reeve, Steve Widergren, and Robert Pratt from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, and we study the power grid. We recently found using a transactive energy system could save U.S. consumers over $50 billion annually on their electrical bills. Ask us anything! https://www.pnnl.gov/projects/transactive-systems-program/dsot-study 100 comments askscience
- Newly Released Data Show How Fish Pass Through Dams https://www.pnnl.gov/news-media/newly-released-data-show-how-fish-pass-through-dams 5 comments science
- Waste carbon from farms, sewage and other sources can be processed into high-grade bio-based fuels more easily with a new flow cell. It removes carbon from wastewater, allowing the clean water to be reused. The system generates hydrogen, a valuable fuel that can be captured, reducing the costs. https://www.pnnl.gov/news-media/path-renewable-fuel-just-got-easier 4 comments science
- The Path to Renewable Fuel Just Got Easier https://www.pnnl.gov/news-media/path-renewable-fuel-just-got-easier 2 comments science
- Extreme heat is now listed routinely as a leading weather-related cause of death in the US. New study shows that living in a city translates to an extra two to six hours of uncomfortable weather per day in the summer for people in the eastern and central United States. https://www.pnnl.gov/news-media/mercury-rises-urban-heat-penalty-grows-especially-night 3 comments science
- Are Microgrids a Key to Grid Resiliency? https://www.pnnl.gov/news-media/are-microgrids-key-grid-resiliency 9 comments energy
- New Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) research says decentralized micro-grids may be the best future for the aging US National Grid, it says is being pushed to breaking point. https://www.pnnl.gov/news-media/are-microgrids-key-grid-resiliency 21 comments futurology
- LCOE for Small Modular Reactors - SMR - by MIT and the US DOE PNNL https://www.pnnl.gov/sites/default/files/media/file/PNNL%20report_Techno-economic%20assessment%20for%20Gen%20III%2B%20SMR%20Deployments%20in%20the%20PNW_April%202021.pdf 6 comments energy
- Extreme Sea Levels to Become Much More Common Worldwide as Earth Warms. Because of rising temperatures, extreme sea levels along coastlines globally will become 100 times more frequent by the end of the century in about half of the 7,283 locations studied. https://www.pnnl.gov/news-media/extreme-sea-levels-become-much-more-common-worldwide-earth-warms 11 comments science
- Making Methane from CO2: Carbon Capture Grows More Affordable https://www.pnnl.gov/news-media/making-methane-co2-carbon-capture-grows-more-affordable 7 comments futurology
- Making Methane from CO2: Carbon Capture Grows More Affordable https://www.pnnl.gov/news-media/making-methane-co2-carbon-capture-grows-more-affordable 15 comments technology
- Emissions cause delay in rainfall. From 1979 to 2019, increases in greenhouse gases and reductions in human-generated aerosols triggered an approximate four-day delay in seasonal rainfall over tropical land and the Sahel. https://www.pnnl.gov/news-media/emissions-cause-delay-rainfall 4 comments science
- Low-cost organic compounds hold promise for storing grid energy. Common fluorenone, a bright yellow powder, was at first a reluctant participant, but with enough chemical persuasion has proven to be a potent partner for energy storage in large systems that store energy for the grid. https://www.pnnl.gov/news-media/compound-commonly-found-candles-lights-way-grid-scale-energy-storage 5 comments science
- Methane emissions from coal mines are approximately 50 percent higher than previously estimated. The results have important implications for Earth’s climate because methane is about 25 times more powerful than carbon dioxide when it comes to warming the planet over a long period. https://www.pnnl.gov/news-media/methane-emissions-coal-mines-are-higher-previously-thought#:~:text=the%20study%20estimates%20that%20if,about%20the%20same%20as%202020. 105 comments science
- Researchers find that Washington and Oregon hold the greatest potential for wave energy on the West Coast. https://www.pnnl.gov/news-media/researchers-identify-which-west-coast-regions-hold-greatest-wave-energy-potential 6 comments science
- AskScience AMA Series: We're Corinne Drennan, Andy Schmidt, Justin Billing, and Tim Seiple from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). We turn wastes like sewage, old food, and manures into biocrude using Hydrothermal Liquefaction. We've got the scoop on poop. AUA! https://www.pnnl.gov/news-media/how-wastewater-treatment-plants-could-be-pumping-out-fuel-instead-sludge 209 comments askscience
- AskScience AMA Series: We're from the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and we research the blue economy: the sustainable use of the ocean and connected waterways for collective economic, social, and environmental benefits. Ask Us Anything! https://www.pnnl.gov/coastal-science 280 comments askscience
- Record Amounts of Uranium Extracted from Seawater with New Technology Made from Regular Yarn https://www.pnnl.gov/news/release.aspx?id=4514 5 comments technology
- Seawater Yields First Gram of Uranium: Researchers Extract 1 Gram of Uranium from Seawater https://www.pnnl.gov/news/release.aspx?id=4514 7 comments science
- If commercial buildings fully used controls nationwide, the U.S. could slash its energy consumption by the equivalent of what is currently used by 12 to 15 million Americans. http://www.pnnl.gov/news/release.aspx?id=4422 7 comments science
- Department of Energy researchers show that wastewater treatment plants across the US could turn sewage into biocrude oil using hydrothermal liquefaction which mimics the geological conditions required. 34 billion gallons of sewage per day could produce up to 30 million barrels of oil per year. http://www.pnnl.gov/news/release.aspx?id=4317 206 comments science
- Unexpected discovery leads to a better battery http://www.pnnl.gov/news/release.aspx?id=4269&utm_source=pnnl%20news&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=pnnl%20news%20rss%20feed 58 comments science
- Science AMA Series: We are Susannah Burrows and Scott Elliott, atmospheric scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and Los Alamos National Laboratory, who developed an approach to simulate how microscopic sea organisms impact cloud properties and the energy balance of the planet. AMA! http://www.pnnl.gov/science/staff/staff_info.asp?staff_num=7835 238 comments science
- Algae to crude oil: Million-year natural process takes minutes in the lab http://www.pnnl.gov/news/release.aspx?id=1029 161 comments technology
- Algae to crude oil: Million-year natural process takes minutes in the lab http://www.pnnl.gov/news/release.aspx?id=1029 1418 comments science