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July 14, 2016AIKEN, S.C. – Proposing to increase efficiency at H Canyon and attract job candidates, early-career professionals for the Savannah River Site’s (SRS) management and operations contractor put their ideas to the test before judges at an inaugural inn...Office of Management
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July 12, 2016In an advance that helps pave the way for next-generation electronics and computing technologies—and possibly paper-thin gadgets—scientists with the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) developed a way ...Office of Technology Commercialization
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June 17, 2016Preliminary tests have demonstrated that a new device may enable existing breast cancer imagers to provide up to six times better contrast of tumors in the breast, while maintaining the same or better image quality and halving the radiation dose to pat...Office of Technology Commercialization
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June 7, 2016Thanks to a DOE Building Technologies Office funding award, QM Power is demonstrating its technology, called the Q-Sync fan motor, in supermarkets.Success Stories
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Press ReleasesMay 18, 2016Energy Department releases the On the Path to SunShot reports, a series of eight research papers examining the state of the U.S. solar energy industry and the progress made to date toward the SunShot Initiative’s goal to make solar energy cost-compet...Energy.gov
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May 18, 2016Scientists curb the energy appetite of the nation’s “answer machines.”Office of Science
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May 16, 2016Trane Commercial Systems and ORNL have attained 25% greater performance out of a baseline commercial RTU.Buildings
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May 11, 2016Researchers Achieve Breakthrough in Solving Leading Cause of Gearbox FailuresIntegrated Energy Systems Office
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May 11, 2016This spring edition of the Wind Program Newsletter comes at the juncture of two important events for the wind industry: the 1-year anniversary of the U.S. Department of Energy Wind Program’s historic Wind Vision Report and the start of American Wind ...Integrated Energy Systems Office
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May 10, 2016With support from BTO, Oak Ridge National Laboratory and GE Appliances are changing the way Americans do laundry—using vibrations instead of heat.Office of Critical Minerals and Energy Innovation