Forging the Future Newsletter - What's Inside: Seattle building tune-ups, biofuel matchmaker, CO2 injection pilot & more

FORGING THE FUTURE

Research towards a clean energy future.

February 2017

In this issue: Power Grid | Efficient Buildings | Environment
Transportation | Renewable Energy | Fossil Energy

Power Grid


Grid Smart: PNNL's Transactive Energy Expertise Featured Special issue of IEEE's Electrification Magazine focuses on transactive energy... read more.	Grid Architecture: Building Consensus for Grid Modernization Research team led by PNNL has developed tools needed by the electricity industry... read more.

Efficient Buildings


Tune-Ups: Servicing Buildings from the Roof, Down Timeline highlights successful development of building Re-tuning ™ methodology... read more.	Hawaii Says Aloha to Building Energy Savings State looks to adopt updated energy conservation code, cites PNNL report as a key driver for change... read more.	ASME Special Issue on Buildings of the Future Journal of Solar Energy Engineering featured research from DOE's Buildings of the Future project... read more.

Environment


Sawdust Reinvented into Super Sponge for Oil Spills Researchers chemically modified sawdust to make it oil-attracting and buoyant... read more.	Separation Technique for Radioactive Technetium A composite synthesized by researchers at PNNL has separated pertechnetate, preventing it from escaping... read more.

Transportation


Biofuel Matchmaker: Finding the Perfect Algae for Fuel New process quickly pares down heaps of algae species into those that hold promise... read more.	Researchers to Play Key Role in Manufacturing USA Institute PNNL and Oregon State University are co-leading Module and Component focus area... read more.

Renewable Energy


Geothermal Community Ups the Game for Computer Codes PNNL-led code comparison study brought together 11 research institutions to collaborate... read more.	The Buoy is Back: What Data Can Tell Us About Offshore Wind After a 19-month deployment in ocean waters, a research buoy has returned... read more.	Research Featured on Advanced Materials Interfaces Cover Researchers developed a non-toxic MOF coating using a layer-by-layer technique... read more.

Fossil Energy

Carbon Dioxide Tucked into Basalt Converts to Rock

Researchers at PNNL injected carbon dioxide into basalt lava flows a half mile underground near Wallula, Wash. In just two years, it converted to a carbonate mineral or solid rock. Conventional wisdom said it would take thousands of years for this to occur. PNNL researchers thought differently after their lab tests demonstrated that the unique geochemical nature of basalts quickly react with carbon dioxide to form carbonate minerals - something akin to limestone... read more.

#ARPAE17

Energy technologies from PNNL are among the 300 that will be featured at the 2017 ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit. From Feb 27 to March 1, you can visit our researchers at one of our six booths. See what we're showcasing on our website.

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