Solar is growing rapidly, and the concentrating photovoltaics industry-both high- and low-concentration cell approaches-may be ready to ramp production in 2009.

In the United States, concentrating solar power (CSP) is one of the most promising renewable energy (RE) technologies for reduction of electric sector greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and for rapid capacity expansion. It is also one of the most price-competitive RE technologies, thanks in large measure to decades of field experience and consistent improvements in design. One of the key design features that makes CSP more attractive than many other RE technologies, like solar photovoltaics and wind, is the potential for including relatively low-cost and efficient thermal energy storage (TES), which can smooth the daily fluctuation of electricity production and extend its duration into the evening peak hours or longer. Because operational environmental burdens are typically small for RE technologies, life cycle assessment (LCA) is recognized as the most appropriate analytical approach for determining their environmental impacts of these technologies, including CSP. An LCA accounts for impacts from all stages in the development, operation, and decommissioning of a CSP plant, including such upstream stages as the extraction of raw materials used in system components, manufacturing of those components, and construction of the plant. The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) is undertaking an LCA of modern CSP plants, starting with those …

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Comparison of the metal reduction efforts between a sampled acidophile alphaprotebacteria (Acidiphilium cryptum JF-5) and a neutrophile deltaprotebacteria (Geobacter spp.), for the purposes of discovering if the two samples reduce metal with similar structured organelles.

The overall objective of this paper is to carry out field investigations to assess the potential for immobilizing and detoxifying chromium-contaminated groundwater using lactate-stimulated bioreduction of Cr(VI) to Cr(III) at the Hanford 100H site.

Stimulation of U(VI) bioreduction is becoming an attractive in-situ method for stabilizing U in contaminated sediments. After reduction of U(VI) is completed in sediments, how stable is bioreduced U(IV) upon exposure to oxidizing groundwaters?

Plutonium contamination in the environment is generally low-level and may be present and transported in a range of forms (IV, V, VI). Current remediation strategies are costly, financially and in terms of increased exposure risk to people and the environment. In situ bacterial biostabilization is a promising alternative.

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This presentation provides the results, as of Spring 2007, for the fuel cell vehicle learning demonstration conducted by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory.

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The objectives of this meeting are: (1) Understand fundamental biogeochemical processes influencing the use of bioremediation approaches for cleaning up, managing, or understanding fate and transport of metals and radionuclides at DOE's contaminated legacy waste sites; and (2) Promote coordination and efficient use of resources, and facilitate comparison and integration of data.

Image collection of composition, reactivity, and regulation of extracellular metal-reducing structures (nanowires) produced by dissimilatory metal reducing bacteria.

This presentation discusses on the job training opportunities for women in each State Department of Transportation. They discuss why the program was created and which U.S. Code created the funding to make the program possible.

Presentation of Blade Testing at NREL's National Wind Technology Center for the 2010 Sandia National Laboratories Blade Testing Workshop.

This presentation was given at the DOE Office of Science-Environmental Management Science Program (EMSP) High-Level Waste Workshop held on January 19-20, 2005 at the Savannah River Site.

This presentation was given at the DOE Office of Science-Environmental Management Science Program (EMSP) High-Level Waste Workshop held on January 19-20, 2005 at the Savannah River Site.

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This presentation was given at the DOE Office of Science-Environmental Management Science Program (EMSP) High-Level Waste Workshop held on January 19-20, 2005 at the Savannah River Site.

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This presentation was given at the DOE Office of Science-Environmental Management Science Program (EMSP) High-Level Waste Workshop held on January 19-20, 2005 at the Savannah River Site.

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