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Tipoffs for Santa Fe, New Mexico (Los Alamos) Newsletter for Sunday November 28, 2021 ( 3 items )  

House Natural Resources Subcommittee Issues Testimony From New Mexico Renewable Energy Transmission Authority Chairman
WASHINGTON, Nov. 25 -- The House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources issued the following testimony by Robert Busch, chairman of the New Mexico Renewable Energy Transmission Authority, involving a remote oversight hearing on Nov. 16, 2021, entitled "Plugging in Public Lands: Transmission Infrastructure for Renewable Energy". Busch was ex-president and chief operating officer of the Public Service Enterprise Group Services Corporation and the ex-CFO of Public Service G  more

Los Alamos Activity Report for Week Ending Nov. 5, 2021
WASHINGTON, Nov. 24 -- The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board's Resident Inspector in Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following weekly report: MEMORANDUM FOR: Christopher J. Roscetti, Technical Director FROM: D. Gutowski, Resident Inspector SUBJECT: Los Alamos Activity Report for Week Ending November 5, 2021 Plutonium Facility-Infrastructure: The resident inspector joined Triad personnel to observe off-shift deactivation and decommissioning and construction activities supporti  more

Rice University: Ultrathin Solar Cells Get a Boost
HOUSTON, Texas, Nov. 23 (TNSJou) -- Rice University issued the following news release: * * * Rice lab finds 2D perovskite compound has the right stuff to challenge bulkier products * * * Rice University engineers have achieved a new benchmark in the design of atomically thin solar cells made of semiconducting perovskites, boosting their efficiency while retaining their ability to stand up to the environment. The lab of Aditya Mohite of Rice's George R. Brown School of Engineering discovered  more