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December 2001
- Ashok Gadgil Elected as a Fellow of the American Physical Society
- EETD Scientist Profiled in Book on Major American Inventors
- "Laser Ultrasonic Sensor developed by EETD Researchers Gets High Marks From Mead Paper"
August 2001
May 2001
- Web Site Advises Californians How to Cut Energy Use 20%
- California Electricity Supply and Demand in Real Time
March 2001
January 2001
December 2001
Ashok Gadgil Elected as a Fellow of the American Physical Society.
Ashok Gadgil has been elected as a Fellow of the American Physical Society "for his outstanding work modeling air and pollutant transport inside buildings, analyzing energy issues in developing countries, and developing "UV" waterworks" for inexpensively disinfecting drinking water in such countries". He was nominated by the Forum on Physics & Society.
EETD Scientist Profiled in Book on Major American Inventors
A new book profiling 35 major American inventors includes a chapter on Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory scientist and inventor Ashok Gadgil. Inventing Modern America: From the Microwave to the Mouse was released December 1, 2001 by MIT Press of Cambridge, Massachusetts. Gadgil is the inventor of UV Waterworks, a device that disinfects drinking water inexpensively and energy-efficiently using ultraviolet light.
Read more about Ashok Gadgil and "Inventing Modern America: From the Microwave to the Mouse".
"Laser Ultrasonic Sensor developed by EETD Researchers Gets High Marks From Mead Paper"
Hoping to save the paper manufacturing industry millions of dollars in energy costs, scientists at the Environmental Energy Technologies Division have developed a laser ultrasonic sensor that measures paper's flexibility as it courses through a production web at up to 65 miles per hour.
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August 2001
Energy-Efficient Fume Hoods Cut Energy Use in Half
A single fume hood running 24 hours a day uses as much energy as an entire house. New fume hood technology developed by researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory reduces energy use by 50 percent or more. This technology has been demonstrated successfully in testing at Berkeley Lab and at the University of California, San Francisco's Department of Pathology.
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May 2001
Web Site Advises Californians How to Cut Energy Use 20%
Energy efficiency researchers have released a web site, The 20% Solution, that can help Californians reduce energy use by 20 percent or more. The site, which was developed by scientists in the Lab's Environmental Energy Technologies Division, identifies energy-efficiency measures and their predicted percentage savings.
California Electricity Supply and Demand in Real Time
Energy efficiency researchers have released a web site at http://energycrisis.lbl.gov, that in real time shows the total demand for electricity in California, and the supply available to meet that demand. The site at Berkeley shows minute-to-minute changes in California's supply and demand balance.
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March 2001
New Energy-Efficient Table Lamp Shines Light Where You Need It
EETD researchers have developed a new high-performance, energy-efficient table lamp that is designed to save energy in homes and offices while greatly increasing lighting quality and visibility.
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January 2001
Energy Smart School Inventors
Four creative elementary school students will meet with the nation's top energy scientists and engineers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory to build their energy-saving ideas through a national invention contest sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy and Owens Corning.
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