Work expected to boost U.S. leadership in hydrogen technology
U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Spencer Abraham has announced the selection of more than $75 million in research projects to support President Bush's hydrogen fuel initiative, according to an October 19 DOE press release.
The research projects address major technical and economic hurdles in renewable and distributed hydrogen-production technologies that must be overcome to make hydrogen-powered cars a reality.
"Stellarator" will be first device in its class anywhere in the world
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) has awarded two subcontracts for fabrication of major components for the National Compact Stellarator Experiment (NCSX), now under construction at the laboratory, according to an October 6 PPPL press release.
NCSX will explore the physics of an innovative concept for fusion energy production and advance the understanding of the related basic science. PPPL is building the new experiment in partnership with the DOE's Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee.
Scientists are associated with the U.S. high-energy physics program
U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Spencer Abraham has congratulated Frank Wilczek, David Politzer and David Gross for winning the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics for their groundbreaking theoretical investigation of the forces between quarks, according to an October 5 DOE press release.
"For decades," Abraham said, "the Department of Energy, and its predecessor agencies, have been the leading federal supporter of research in physics, enabling vital advances and discoveries by scientists exploring the fundamental nature of matter, energy, space and time."
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