WASHINGTON, June 13 -- The U.S. Department of Energy issued the following news on June 12, 2023: The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced more than $192 million in new funding for recycling batteries from consumer products, launching an advanced battery research and development (R&D) consortium, and the continuation of the Lithium-Ion Battery Recycling Prize, which began in 2019. With the demand for electric vehicles (EVs) and stationary energy storage projected to increase the lithi  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, June 13 (TNSjou) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release on June 12, 2023: Like most scientists, Chengping Chai is not content with the surface of things: He wants to probe beyond to learn what's really going on. But in his case, he is literally building a map of the world beneath, using seismic and acoustic data that reveal when and where the earth moves. Yet earthquakes are not the focus of Chai's research at the  more

WASHINGTON, June 13 (TNSjou) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory issued the following web feature: * * * PNNL scientists investigate the promising properties of a common, Earth-abundant salt * * * In a world of continuously warmer temperatures, a growing consensus demands that energy sources have zero, or next-to-zero, carbon emissions. That means growing beyond coal, oil, and natural gas by getting more energy from renewable sources. One of the most pro  more