WASHINGTON, Nov. 4 -- The U.S. Department of Energy issued the following news on Nov. 3, 2022: The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced that contracts have been awarded for the purchase of crude oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) following a Notice of Sale announced on October 18, 2022. These contract awards complete the President Biden's announcement on March 31, 2022, to release 180 million barrels of crude oil to address the significant global supply disruption caused   more

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, Nov. 3 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory issued the following news: A case study conducted by the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) NETL examined the performance and cost of solvent-based direct air capture (DAC) system configurations that remove carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere. DAC is an emerging carbon dioxide removal (CRD) technology that concentrates CO2 found in the ambient air rather than a power plant or industria  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 4 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory issued the following news: Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) played a prominent role in the 64th annual meeting of the American Physical Society-Division of Plasma Physics (APS-DPP). Some 170 PPPL scientists, students and others -- the largest group from the Laboratory ever -- joined the hybrid October 17-21, 2022, conference in Spokane, Washing  more