ARTICLES AND
NEWS RELEASES
Berkeley Lab Receives $7 Million for Enhanced Geothermal Energy Technologies
October 29, 2009
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has been awarded $7 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funding for four projects that seek to advance Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS), which is capable of harnessing the Earth’s heat where conventional geothermal technologies cannot. More>
Small Businesses Benefit from Berkeley Lab's Recovery Act Funds
October 28, 2009
As funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act start to flow into Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, much of that funding is flowing out to small businesses. More>
On the Road to Fusion Energy, an Accelerator to Study Warm Dense Matter
October 14, 2009
Imagine yourself at the core of Jupiter, a planet 300 times the mass of Earth. At 35,000 degrees Fahrenheit, you and I might think it’s hot in here, but to a physicist it’s merely warm – warm dense matter, to be precise, stuff that hasn’t quite undergone thermonuclear fusion yet. More>
DOE to explore scientific cloud computing at Argonne, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories
October 14, 2009
Cloud computing is gaining traction in the commercial world, but can such an approach also meet the computing and data storage demands of the nation’s scientific community? A new program funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act through the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) will examine cloud computing as a cost-effective and energy-efficient computing paradigm for scientists to accelerate discoveries in a variety of disciplines, including analysis of scientific data sets in biology, climate change and physics. More>
Berkeley Lab Receives $1.8 Million in Recovery Act
Funding to Help Federal Agencies Improve Energy Efficiency
September 9, 2009
Through $1.8 million in funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Berkeley Lab scientists will provide technical expertise to help federal energy managers with advanced energy-efficient technologies in lighting, HVAC (heating, ventilation and air conditioning), and control systems. More >
Berkeley Lab Researchers Receive Recovery Act Funds
to Help Improve Reliability of Electrical Grid
September 1, 2009
The Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) announced today that mathematicians from its Computational Research Division (CRD) are receiving Recovery Act funds to help increase the reliability of the electrical grid and improve the nation's ability to respond to energy disruptions. More >
Advanced Light Source Receives $11.3 Million
to Enable New Types of Scientific Inquiry
August 19, 2009
What can you do with x-rays that are 10 billion times brighter than those from your doctor’s x-ray machine? A lot! Scientists using the powerful beam lines at Berkeley Lab’s Advanced Light Source in recent years have conducted breakthrough research on platinum-nickel alloys as a catalyst for fuel cells, made a discovery about the Ebola virus structure that could lead to a vaccine, and crafted a new technique for guiding self-assembly of nanostructures that should open up vistas for entirely new applications. More >
Berkeley Lab’s ESnet Receives $62 Million
to Develop World’s Fastest Computer Network
August 10, 2009
As scientists in a wide variety of disciplines increasingly rely on supercomputers and collaboration with colleagues around the world to advance their research, managing and sharing the mountain of data generated by their investigations will soon become a choking point. In order to facilitate such data-intensive research, ESnet, the Department of Energy’s high-performance networking facility managed by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, is receiving $62 million to develop what will be the world’s fastest computer network, designed specifically to support science. More >
Berkeley Lab Receives an Additional $40.3 Million
in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Funding
August 4, 2009
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced that the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) will receive $40.3 million in funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to support research in biofuels, fusion energy and the nation’s power grid and to ensure scientists have state-of-the-art equipment for their investigations. More >
BELLA Accelerating Science by Accelerating Electrons
June 25, 2009
Berkeley Lab scientists stunned the world in 2006 when they proved they could accelerate electrons to very high energies (1 GeV, or a billion electron volts) in a distance of centimeters rather than hundreds of meters. Using the same concepts, those scientists plan to take the project to the next level and build a laser-based accelerator capable of zapping electron beams to energies exceeding 10 GeV in a distance of just one meter. More >
Federal Stimulus Funds Get to Work at Berkeley Lab
May 1, 2009
With the arrival of the first portion of the $115.8 million in federal stimulus funding allocated to Berkeley Lab, work has already started to inject the money directly into the economy. The Lab’s Facilities division, which will receive the majority of the funds, since much of it is slated for laboratory construction and infrastructure, has hired project managers and other personnel and is poised to assign new work to subcontractors. More >
Berkeley Lab to Receive $115.8 Million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Funding
March 23, 2009
BERKELEY, CA – The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced that the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) will receive $115.8 million from President Obama’s American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. More >
