UPTON, New York, March 8 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory issued the following news release: Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory are leading a new effort to land a radio telescope on the moon. If successful, the project will mark the first step towards exploring the Dark Ages of the universe. The Dark Ages are an early era of cosmological history starting about 380,000 years after the Big Bang. There were no stars   more

WASHINGTON, March 8 -- The Department of Energy's Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability issued the following news on March 8, 2023: The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) Office of Electricity (OE) today announced two new funding pathways for energy storage innovation. Grid-scale energy storage is critical to supporting a resilient and secure electricity grid that can more efficiently transmit clean energy in the United States. The need for longer-duration storage technologies  more

LIVERMORE, California, March 8 (TNSjou) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory issued the following news release: A series of experiments conducted at the Omega Laser, part of the University of Rochester's Laboratory for Laser Energetics, provide new insights into magnetic reconnection, a process that could help explain stellar flares and other astrophysical phenomena. The research confirmed that unstable ion-acoustic waves (IAWs) could be important to further  more

WASHINGTON, March 9 (TNSrep) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory issued the following report (No. 33734) entitled "Modeling Value Flows in Utility Rate Structures." The report was written by Danielle Preziuso, Daniel Boff and Sadie Bender. Here are excerpts: * * * Contents Abstract ... ii Acknowledgments ... iii Acronyms and Abbreviations ... iv 1.0 Introduction ... 1 2.0 Rates ... 3 2.1 Flat Rates ... 3 2.2 Critical Peak Pricing ... 3 2.3 Time of  more