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Civil war in the Sudan has made the Darfur area of western Sudan into one of the world’s largest refugee zones. Aid organizations estimate that two million people are in refugee camps in the Darfur area. Since 2003, between 200,000 and 300,000 people have been killed there. The complex reasons for this humanitarian crisis stem from the region’s ethnic and religious differences.
Lighting it Right with Smart Dust
The next time you walk into a sunlit, empty meeting room or office, notice whether the lights are on. If the answer is yes, you might wonder why someone—or some automatic system—hasn’t turned them off to save energy.
How much energy does the California economy use, how is the energy supplied, and what is it used for? For economic, environmental, and energy security reasons, many people are interested in the answers to these questions. The California Energy Commission (CEC) recently funded scientists in the Environmental Energy Technologies Division (EETD) at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) to help find the answers.
Cost to Reduce Carbon Emissions in Developing World Higher than in Industrial Nations
Knowing the costs of reducing carbon emissions from power plants and other sources is crucial to calculating the overall costs of mitigating climate change. Previous calculations used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the United Nations-sponsored organization that studies the issue, suggested that reducing carbon emissions in the developing world was cheaper than reducing them in the industrial world.
Gold Rush Stil Haunts San Francisco Bay
More than 150 years ago, California’s Sierra Nevada foothills echoed with the jubilant cry, "There’s gold in them thar hills!" Today, those words have morphed into a more subdued but equally urgent warning: there’s mercury in the San Francisco Bay, and it isn’t going anywhere soon.
Arthur Rosenfeld, 79, acclaimed high-energy physicist turned energy-conservation savant, veteran researcher/educator for Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of California at Berkeley, and two-time appointee to the California Energy Commission, has won the Enrico Fermi Award, one of the nation’s oldest and most prestigious awards for scientific achievement.
China’s rapidly growing economy, its need to meet mounting energy demand, and its increasing greenhouse gas emissions have raised interest in energy efficiency among Chinese government officials. In November 2005, Environmental Energy Technologies Division (EETD) Director Mark Levine and several other EETD members accompanied Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) Director Steven Chu on a week-long visit to China to discuss energy efficiency.
- Contamination Control Technology
- Traffic Physics
- Benner Award goes to Mary Ann Piette
- EETD, Jordanians Sign Energy MOU