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15-Nov-2022

Sandia studies vulnerabilities of electric vehicle charging infrastructure

With electric vehicles becoming more and more common, the risks and hazards of a cyber attack on electric vehicle charging equipment and systems also increases. Jay Johnson, an electrical engineer at Sandia National Laboratories, has been studying the varied vulnerabilities of electric vehicle charging infrastructure for the past four years.

Journal: Energies
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

17-Oct-2022

Burping bacteria: Identifying Arctic microbes that produce greenhouse gases

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories

As greenhouse gases bubble up across the rapidly thawing Arctic, Sandia National Laboratories researchers are trying to identify other trace gases from soil microbes that could shed some light on what is occurring biologically in melting permafrost in the Arctic.

29-Sep-2022

Propelling wind energy innovation

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories

Motivated by the need to eliminate expensive rare-earth magnets in utility-scale direct-drive wind turbines, Sandia National Laboratories researchers developed a fundamentally new type of rotary electrical contact. Sandia is now ready to partner with the renewable energy industry to develop the next generation of direct-drive wind turbines.

28-Sep-2022

Scientists chip away at a metallic mystery, one atom at a time

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories

Based at Sandia National Laboratories, a team of scientists believes the key to preventing large-scale, catastrophic failures in bridges, airplanes and power plants is to look — very closely — at damage as it first appears at the atomic and nanoscale levels.

Journal: Science Advances

16-Aug-2022

Back to the drawing board: Reinventing offshore wind turbines

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories

In order to design radically new idea offshore wind turbines, Sandia National Laboratories engineers first needed to build a design tool capable of modeling the physics vertical-axis wind turbine, or a new "drawing board."

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

9-Aug-2022

“We’ve Got the Power”: Sandia technology test delivers electricity to the grid

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories

For the first time, Sandia National Laboratories researchers delivered electricity produced by a new power-generating system to the Sandia-Kirtland Air Force Base electrical grid.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

21-Jul-2022

Sandia applied mathematician wins DOE Early Career Research Award

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories

Examination of very fine real-world data can improve the fidelity by which complex computer simulations are guided, says Sandia National Laboratories applied mathematician Pete Bosler. Bosler investigates multiscale simulations that, integrated, could combine individual raindrops, thunderstorms and the entire global atmosphere, guided by data currently thought too fine to be used, that is, too small to be seen on a data grid, or in other words, subgrid.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

19-Jul-2022

Radar gets a major makeover

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories

Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories are working to replace legacy analog radars commonly used by the military with a new, digital, software-defined system called Multi-Mission Radio Frequency Architecture.

13-Jul-2022

20th anniversary of Sandia tribal energy internship program

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories

2022 marks a major milestone for Sandia National Laboratories’ groundbreaking tribal energy internship program: two decades of meeting the growing renewable energy technical needs of Native American tribes and providing valuable, real-world experience for Native and Alaska Native STEM students.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

21-Jun-2022

Exploring explosives for expanding geothermal energy

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories

Why are scientists setting off small-scale explosions inside 1-foot cubes of plexiglass? They’re watching how fractures form and grow in a rock-like substance to see if explosives or propellants, similar to jet fuel, can connect geothermal wells in a predictable manner.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy