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2006 Archives
Contents
December 2006
October 2006
September 2006
- Energy Expert Among MIT Review's Top 35
- Silver Anomalies Found in Jerusalem Pottery Hint at Wealth During Second Temple Period
July 2006
- EETD Wins a 2006 R&D 100 Award
- Energy Efficient Buildings and Appliances: From Berkeley Lab to the Marketplace
June 2006
April 2006
March 2006
January 2006
December 2006
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/). The stoves require 75% less fuel than current stoves, and reduce exposure to rape, hunger, physical hardship, and humiliation.
Please visit the Global Giving website.
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October 2006
White House Honors Federal Agency Teams for Saving Energy
Alex Lekov of LBNL's EES Group (together with Bill Golove) was a recipient of the 2006 Presidential Award for Leadership in Federal Energy Management as part of a larger team representing the U.S. Postal Service Pacific Area Energy Program Committee. The USPS received this award for completing over $100 million of clean energy retrofits in their facilities during FY 2004 and 2005. Berkeley Lab team was instrumental both in designing the administrative structure of the program and providing comprehensive technical assistance with the selection of technologies and the calculation of benefits. In the DOE press release, note that the USPS project is responsible for savings of 9 million dollars and 340 billion Btu, which represents about three-quarters of both the dollars and the annual energy savings for all five projects.
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September 2006
Energy Expert Among MIT Review's Top 35
Christina Galitsky, a researcher in the Lab's Environmental Energy Technologies Division, has been named one of 35 top innovators in science and technology under the age of 35 by MIT's Technology Review magazine. She was also honored as Humanitarian of the Year.
Full article | The Review's feature story
Silver Anomalies Found in Jerusalem Pottery Hint at Wealth During Second Temple Period
Scientists at EETD and Bar-Ilan University have discovered unusually high concentrations of silver in samples of many different types of pottery from excavations in Jerusalem of the late Second Temple period, the first century BCE (Before the Common Era) through 70 CE (Common Era). This is the first study ever conducted on silver in archaeological ceramics.
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July 2006
EETD Wins a 2006 R&D 100 Award
One of four of R&D Magazine's prestigious R&D 100 Awards given to Berkeley Lab for 2006, the editors' choices for the 100 most significant proven technological advances of the year, has gone to researchers at Berkeley Lab's Environmental Energy Technologies Division. The Laser Ultrasonic Sensor, developed by members of EETD and colleagues at the Institute of Paper Science and Technology at the Georgia Institute of Technology is a sensor and control system to ensure optimum paper quality and efficient use of trees, chemicals, and energy by measuring stiffness and shear strength as paper speeds through the production web.
Energy Efficient Buildings and Appliances: From Berkeley Lab to the Marketplace
Summer Lecture Series
Berkeley, California
July 10, 2006
California Energy Commissioner and Professor Emeritus Art Rosenfeld discusses the contributions of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory to improving America's energy efficiency.
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June 2006
Energy-Efficient Direct-Current-Powering Technology Reduces Energy Use in Data Centers By Up to 20 Percent
Researchers at EETD have teamed with Silicon Valley giants including Sun Microsystems, Intel, Cisco, and others to demonstrate technologies that could save billions of dollars a year in the energy costs of operating data centers, as well as improve reliability and lengthen equipment life.
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April 2006
Berkeley's Art Rosenfeld Wins Fermi Award
Arthur Rosenfeld, 79, acclaimed high-energy physicist turned energy-conservation savant, veteran researcher/educator for Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of California at Berkeley, and two-time appointee to the California Energy Commission, has won the Enrico Fermi Award, one of the nation's oldest and most prestigious awards for scientific achievement.
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March 2006
A Mission to Darfur
Ashok Gadgil and Christina Galitsky were among a team of researchers from the Environmental Energy Technologies Division who recently went to Darfur to test simple cookstoves made of sheet metal or cast iron, designed to use less wood or alternative fuels such as animal dung. A critical lack of fuel for cooking drives women to leave the safety of the camps, where they are exposed to potential violence as they walk farther and farther every day to find firewood.
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January 2006
Lighting it Right with Smart Dust
EETD researchers are developing an automated lighting control technology that takes advantage of daylighting to give the electric lights a rest.
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