“It’s unclear which departments were affected or which employees were based out of the lab’s headquarters in Golden. The email, sent by the ‘NREL Leadership team,’ cited shifting budget requirements, new federal directives and stop-work orders as affecting the lab’s operations.” 🤬
#Politics #USPolitics #ClimateCrisis #RenewableEnergy #Science #Research #FederalWorkforcePurges #NREL #TrumpIsANationalDisgrace #LayoffsUnderTrump
“Staff at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), the Department of Energy division that guides public and private research and development involving renewable energy and energy efficiency, were blindsided with a round of layoffs on Monday morning.” 🤬
#Politics #USPolitics #ClimateCrisis #RenewableEnergy #NREL #LayoffsUnderTrump #TrumpIsANationalDisgrace #FederalWorkersFired #DepartmentOfEnergy
Many NREL sites seem to be down as part of the trump regimes science purge.
I've relied on the research published by NREL my whole carreer. They've been doing critical work ensuring that renewables are as reliable and safe as possible.
Now I need to scour for archived documents, and forget about future research.
Esperem que Trump i el seu nou home de negre ultraliberal no se'ls hi acudeixi restar finançament o qüestionar la bona feina de #NREL 😱
Martin Keller zum neuen Präsidenten der Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft gewählt
Mit der Wahl von Martin Keller zum neuen #Helmholtz-Präsidenten schließt sich der Senat einstimmig dem ebenfalls einstimmigen Vorschlag der Mitgliederversammlung vom 23. Oktober 2024 an. Der derzeitige Präsident, Otmar D. Wiestler, hat sein Amt 2015 angetreten und scheidet kommendes Jahr satzungsgemäß nach zwei Amtszeiten aus. Martin Kellers Amtszeit beginnt am 1. November 2025.
The city of Frankfort, KY set goals in 2021 to provide 100% renewable electricity for all city operations by 2023 and 100% renewable electricty community wide by 2030. With technical assistance from NREL, they are making good progress towards their 2023 goal.
#EnergyMastodon #EnergyTransition #Climate #Kentucky #NREL #Solar
https://ket.org/program/kentucky-edition/frankforts-move-toward-clean-energy/
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May 6
The US Department of Energy sees potential in NREL’s geological H2 research.
The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)...READ More #DOEARPAEprogram #whitehydrogen #NaturalH2 #nrel #USDepartmentofEnergyAdvancedResearchProjectsAgencyEnergyprogram
I realized I did not have the link for the #NREL article on the #recyclable #polyester #PECAN resin touted as 100% #recyclable / #reusable for #WindTurbine construction. So I went and found the #doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matt.2023.10.033
Be aware this resolves via Elsevier linking hub. If you have a better solution / link, please post a response.
"Study Examines Cost Competitiveness of Zero-Emission Trucks [ZEVs] …
With continued improvements in vehicles and fuels, ZEVs are rapidly becoming commercially viable, potentially reaching total cost of driving parity or better compared to diesel vehicles by 2035 in all market segments"
https://cleantechnica.com/2024/04/04/study-examines-cost-competitiveness-of-zero-emission-trucks/
#ElectricVehicles #ElectricTrucks #ZEV #ZeroEmissionTrucks #USA #EnergyTransition #NationalRenewableEnergyLaboratory #NREL
#HeatPumps Are Still A Good Investment Even If Your Grid Is Powered By #Coal
National #Renewable Energy Laboratory researchers modeled entire #US housing stock and found that, over appliance’s expected lifetime of 16yr, switching to heat pumps for heating and cooling slashes #emissions in every one of the contiguous 48 states. #NREL found heat pumps lower household annual energy emissions an average by 36-64% or 2.5 to 4.4 metric tons of #carbondioxide equivalent per year
https://cleantechnica.com/2024/03/11/heat-pumps-are-still-a-good-investment-even-if-your-grid-is-powered-by-coal/
New High Temperature Semiconductor Diodes Operate at 600˚C
#research #news #electronics #materials #science #materialsscience #materialscience #nrel #energy #extreme
Stochastic Soaring Raptor Simulator (SSRS)
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https://github.com/NREL/SSRS <-- shared GitHub repository
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2022.109876 <-- shared paper
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #remotesensing #birds #eagles #soaring #raptors #windenergy #windturbines #model #modeling #numericmodeling #elevation #opendata #3dep #stochasticmodel #impacts #raptorstrike #3d #orographic #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #elevation #DEM #wind #weather #climate #SSRS #updraft #USWTDB #USGS #NREL #terrain #altitude #slope #aspect
#Recycling should be a no-brainer everywhere across the nation. It's not just the right thing to do for our communities & the environment. It's also a HUGE untapped feedstock for many industrial processes: https://www.nrel.gov/news/press/2023/news-release-nrel-research-quantifies-losses-from-cardboard-paper-waste.html. What are we waiting for? 🤔♻️ #NREL #supplychain #sustainability
This is a good time to watch the recording of our NASEM #TRB webinar with #NREL on Electrification and #Hydrogen Technologies in #Airports: https://www.nationalacademies.org/event/05-25-2023/trb-webinar-electrification-and-hydrogen-technologies-in-airports. Download the resources available on the webpage! 🚁🛩️✈️ #aircraft #airtravel #aviation #energytransition #hydrogen
❇️ Hi treballem des del projecte SINGULAR que desenvolupem amb Arkenova, Coopdevs, EPI, Som Energia, Som Mobilitat i Tandem Social.
♥️ Tot això és possible gràcies a la feinada i les eines #Opensource que desenvolupa molta gent arreu del món #NREL #UrbanOPT #EnergyPlus #DOE #Modelica #LadybugTools
#Perovskite: Hundreds of years after it was discovered, one material is about to change the world
#Perovskite
#SolarEnergy
#OxfordPV
#PerovskiteSiliconTandemSolarCells
#KAUST
#RenshineSolar
#PerovskiteSolarCells
#NREL
#NREL: #idroelettrico a #pompaggio, la soluzione di #accumulo con minori #emissioni
Il pompaggio idroelettrico offre il più basso potenziale di riscaldamento globale rispetto alle batterie a litio, al piombo, di flusso e ai sistemi d’accumulo ad aria compressa
https://www.rinnovabili.it/energia/idroelettrico/idroelettrico-a-pompaggio-vantaggi/
Delivering hydrogen everywhere by blending it into natural gas pipelines https://innovationtoronto.com/2023/08/delivering-hydrogen-everywhere-by-blending-it-into-natural-gas-pipelines/
