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High Fuel Cost And What It Means To Our Everyday Lives - According to our recent poll, the rising cost of fuel has caused many families and individuals to restrain from driving habits that weve been so accustomed to. Before the fuel cost skyrocketed we wouldnt think twice about hopping in our car for a 50 >>>

Electric Cars Zap Rising Gas Prices - Tired of paying more and more for gas? Fuel prices this year have been at the highest levels in 25 years, and with world demand for oil higher than ever, they most likely wont decrease any time soon. >>>

Gas Prices Are On Fire - As I write this article the average price for a gallon of regular gasoline is just under $3.00 for a countrywide average. The price will only continue to rise as issues continue to heat up with Iran and the price of crude oil continues to climb. I p >>>

Fuel Costs For Hybrid Cars - When thinking about buying a new car, fuel costs for hybrid cars should not necessarily be the lone deciding factor. There are many different considerations for determining the benefits of owning a car and insurance, maintenance and reliability are a >>>

High Gas Prices Inspire Con Artists - The high price of gasoline brings out the worst in some people. It also brings out the gullibility in others. A spate of rip-offs have been uncovered recently, all designed to take advantage of peoples desperation to lower their fuel bills. Texas ba >>>

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Combining chromatography, proteomics and database searching identifies hard-to-find heme proteins

May 24th, 2013
Iron is a critical part of many biological processes; however, it is often not biologically available or it can be toxic in high quantities.

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Fertilizer that fizzles in a homemade bomb could save lives around the world

May 24th, 2013
An engineer at DOE's Sandia National Laboratories who trained U.S.

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LLNL’s Maya Gokhale creates computational sleuthing tools Computer scientist Maya Gokhale of DOE’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory enjoys reading mysteries in her leisure time, which is not surprising given her aptitude for computational sleuthing, notably finding the proverbial ‘needle in the haystack,’ the key nugget of information buried in the avalanche of data today’s supercomputers produce. “Not only is the amount of data being generated growing exponentially,” Gokhale told LLNL’s Science & Technology Review in 2012, “but when the raw data are analyzed, more data ‘ called ‘metadata’ ‘ are generated as well. It’s truly an issue of ‘drowning in data.’” Recently named a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff by Lab Director Parney Albright, Gokhale leads a group developing data-intensive computing architectures and techniques for addressing the “data overload” problem. This involves the synergy of multiple disciplines including computer science, applied mathematics, and statistics. Full Story Feature–> Feature Makeover Puts CHARMM Back in Business Biofuels scientists are asking more complex questions about how molecules spin, bond, and break when enzymes attack plants ‘ all in the name of quickening the process of turning biomass into fuels for the sake of cleaner air and better energy security. They’re the kinds of questions that require trillions of mathematical operations each second on supercomputers. But, software engineers hadn’t been able to keep up with the ever-increasing demands of the scientists and the growing capabilities of modern supercomputers. That is, until unique work at DOE’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) supercharged an essential decades-old software program to run on a single high performance computer such as the new petascale computer at NREL’s Energy Systems Integration Facility. Software engineers at NREL have reworked codes and algorithms on the CHARMM (Chemistry at Harvard Molecular Mechanics) program to allow it to simulate molecular motion with millions to billions of steps of computation. It does so by simulating nanoseconds to microseconds of molecular motion, which takes days of computing time. Full Story Latest Issues March 30, 2009 March 16, 2009 March 2, 2009 February 16, 2009 February 2, 2009 Janury 19, 2009 January 5, 2009 –> New battery design could help solar and wind energy power the grid

May 24th, 2013
Researchers from DOE's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University have designed a low-cost, long-life battery that could enable solar and wind energy to become major suppliers to the electrical grid.

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GrayQbTM: A new tool for contamination mapping

May 24th, 2013
Nuclear facilities in the midst of cleanup due to normal routine or unexpected incident face a remarkable challenge ' how to safely determine the exact location of radioactive contamination.

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Flexibility in fracing reg seen still an open question

May 23rd, 2013

Increased flexibility for operators remains an open question in a revised proposal for federal regulation of hydraulic fracturing, according to a May 23 legal update by Roger W. Patrick of the law firm Mayer Brown.

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Shell lets subsea contract for Stones field development

May 23rd, 2013

Royal Dutch Shell PLC has let a subsea equipment contract to FMC Technologies Inc. in a move to continue development of Stones oil and gas field in the Gulf of Mexico.

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First Yamal hydraulic frac jobs reported

May 23rd, 2013

Gazprom Neft has conducted what it says is the first hydraulic fracturing ever on Russia’s Yamal Pensinsula at geologically complex Novoport oil and gas condensate field.

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Lundin plugging dry hole offshore Norway

May 23rd, 2013

Lundin Petroleum AS, Stockholm, is plugging its 7/4-3 exploratory well on PL495 in the North Sea offshore Norway as a dry hole (OGJ Online, Apr. 5, 2013).

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Das Island flare contracts awarded

May 23rd, 2013

Abu Dhabi Marine Operating Co. (ADMA-OPCO) has awarded Technip, Paris, a lump-sum turnkey contract for engineering, procurement, construction, precommissioning, commissioning, and start-up assistance for flare modifications and revamp on Das Island.

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Oklahoma gas plant starts up

May 23rd, 2013

Caballo Energy LLC, Tulsa, has started up a 60-MMcfd gas processing plant near Carmen, Okla., in Alfalfa County, bringing Caballo’s total processing capacity in the region to about 100 MMcfd (OGJ Online, Sept. 18, 2012).

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