WASHINGTON, June 8 (TNStalk) -- The U.S. Department of Energy issued the following statement on June 7, 2023: * * * U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer M. Granholm issued the following statement today following the U.S. Senate's bipartisan confirmation of David Crane by a vote of 56 to 43 to serve as Under Secretary for Infrastructure at the U.S. Department of Energy: "David Crane has spent his career in the private sector shaping the ideas and ambition at the heart of President Biden's clean e  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, June 8 (TNSjou) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: Scientists at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have invented a coating that could dramatically reduce friction in common load-bearing systems with moving parts, from vehicle drive trains to wind and hydroelectric turbines. It reduces the friction of steel rubbing on steel at least a hundredfold. The novel ORNL coating could help grease  more