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Researchers in the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) Environmental Energy Technologies Division (EETD) have teamed with Silicon Valley giants, including Sun Microsystems, Intel, and Cisco, to demonstrate technologies that could save billions of dollars a year in data center energy costs as well as improve data center reliability and lengthen equipment life. The demonstration took place this summer at a test facility at Sun Microsystems in Newark, CA. More than 20 high-technology companies participated.
Laser Ultrasonic Sensor Wins R&D 100
R&D Magazine has bestowed four of its prestigious R&D 100 Awards for 2006 on researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and their colleagues. One award went to the laser ultrasonic stiffness sensor (LUS), developed by Rick Russo and Paul Ridgway (Figure 1) of the Environmental Energy Technologies Division (EETD) along with colleagues Emmanuel Lafond, Chuck Habeger, and Ted Jackson of Georgia Tech’s Institute of Paper Science and Technology. The R&D 100 awards honor the magazine’s choices for the 100 most significant proven technological advances of the year.
Silver Anomalies in Jerusalem Pottery
Researchers in the Environmental Energy Technologies Division (EETD) of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and at Israel’s Bar-Ilan University have discovered high concentrations of silver in samples of pottery from excavations in Jerusalem (see Figure 1) dating from the late Second Temple period, i.e., the first century BCE (Before the Common Era) through 70 CE (Common Era).
GSA's Cool Coup at the Philadelphia Custom House
The U.S. General Service Administration’s (GSA) Philadelphia Custom House saved almost $70,000 in demand payments during 2005-2006, and expects savings of nearly $100,000 (about 15 percent of the facility’s annual electricity bill) in 2006-2007, thanks to a study of load management and demand response approaches conducted by the Environmental Energy Technologies Division of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). The study was sponsored by GSA and the Federal Energy Management Program (FEMP).
A team of researchers at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) Environmental Energy Technologies Division (EETD) has developed a technology that removes mercury from coal-fired power plant emissions.
- EETD's New Website
- Fan Filter Unit Test Method
- Berkeley Lab Fume Hood is Licensed for Manufacture
Darfur Stoves Effort in Progress
A recently launched Global Giving web page describes a plan to reduce hardship in the Sudan. EETD Researchers developed, in cooperation with local inhabitants and aid organizations, the Berkeley-Darfur Stove, a low-cost technology that will help minimize violence against women, increase disposable incomes, and reduce environmental degradation (http://darfurstoves.lbl.gov/).Sources and Credits