Environment

Peloton To Participate In DOE-Funded Team To Cut Heavy Truck Fuel Use By 20 Percent

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DOE News:
 
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. ― Peloton Technology, a connected and automated vehicle technology company dedicated to improving the safety and efficiency of freight transportation, announced its participation in the Next-Generation Energy Technologies for Connected and Autonomous On-Road Vehicles (NEXTCAR) program sponsored by the U.S Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E).
 
The project will apply next-generation truck platooning technology and concepts for smart, cloud-connected powertrains to achieve 20 percent
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Christmas Trees At Valles Caldera – Help Restore Forest!

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Freshly cut Christmas Trees will be available 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily at the Valle Grande Staging Area starting the Friday after Thanksgiving until Dec. 18. Courtesy/VCNP
 
VCNP News:
 
Los Amigos de Valles Caldera will once again be helping the Valles Caldera National Preserve to thin overgrown forested areas to protect it from further large wildfires.
 
These freshly cut Christmas Trees will be available 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily at the Valle Grande Staging Area, off N.M. 4 between mile marker 39 and 40, starting the Friday after Thanksgiving, Nov. 25, until Dec.
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Los Alamos Honored For Industry Collaboration In 2016 HPCwire Awards

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Gary Grider, right, division leader for High Performance Computing at Los Alamos National Laboratory, accepts the HPCwire Readers’ Choice award from Tom Tabor, CEO of Tabor Communications, publisher of HPCwire. Courtesy/HPCwire

 

LANL News:

 

SALT LAKE CITY—Los Alamos National Laboratory has been recognized with an HPCwire Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Award for the Lab’s collaboration with Seagate on next-generation data storage technologies. The award was presented at the 2016 International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis Read More

Rotary Club Prepares Library Garden For Winter

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Rotarians Bev Cooper and Phil Dabney (front) with Chuck Tallman, Jane Phillips, Paul Frederickson, Melanie Bennett and Jean Gindreau take a moment to pose for Nina Thayer after a full Saturday morning at work preparing the Mesa Public Library for the winter season ahead. The work party was organized by Melanie Bennett as part of the Rotary Club of Los Alamos’s commitment to maintain the garden through spring and fall mowing, weeding, trimming and planting. Photo by Nina Thayer

Rotarians Paul Frederickson, Chuck Tallman, Nina Thayer and Jean Gindreau filled Tallman’s Read More

Atomic Beltway May Solve Problems Of Cosmic Gravity

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Courtesy/NIST
 
NIST News:
 
When is a traffic jam not a traffic jam? When it’s a quantum traffic jam, of course. Only in quantum physics can traffic be standing still and moving at the same time.
 
A new theoretical paper from scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Maryland suggests that intentionally creating just such a traffic jam out of a ring of several thousand ultracold atoms could enable precise measurements of motion. If implemented with the right experimental setup, the atoms could provide a measurement
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Landmark Rules Will Reduce Oil And Gas Waste, Pollution On BLM Lands

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BLM News:
 
WASHINGTON, D.C. ― The U.S. Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) finalized new rules to reduce the amount of methane that oil and gas companies leak, vent and flare on our nation’s public and tribal-owned lands.
 
These new rules are the first national standards that target methane emissions from existing oil and gas sources – reducing waste and pollution. They also set an important precedent for continued action.
 
Statement from EDF President Fred Krupp:
 
“Natural gas is a valuable American resource, but when wasted
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Monday’s Supermoon Closest To Earth Since 1948

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The supermoon shines in the sky Monday night over Los Alamos. This amazing spectacle is the first such event in almost 70 years. During Monday’s event, the moon is the closest it has been to Earth since 1948. It appears 14 percent bigger and 30 percent brighter than the average monthly full moon. The next supermoon is scheduled to appear Nov. 25, 2034. Photo by Leland Lehman/ladailypost.com

Monday’s supermoon as seen  from Los Alamos. Photo by Leland Lehman/ladailypost.com Read More

Five Los Alamos Innovations Win R&D 100 Awards

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LANL News:

 

‘Oscars of Innovation’ go to CCSI, Entropy Engine, Pathscan, PulMo and VERA

 

Five Los Alamos National Laboratory technologies won R&D 100 Awards last week at R&D Magazine’s annual ceremony in Washington, D.C.

 

“These awards are representative of the multidisciplinary character of the work we do at Los Alamos, and result from partnerships with other national laboratories, private industry, and universities,” LANL Director Charlie McMillan said. “I applaud all of the R&D 100 award winners for their success and for showcasing the innovative science Read More

Letter To The Editor: Los Alamos Has A Responsibility To Its Wildlife

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Dumpsters behind LAMC. Photo by Debbi Miller

 

By DEBBI MILLER
Los Alamos

Among the many things that make Los Alamos unique is its proximity to open space and the wildlife that lives here.

As citizens of this urban interface, we have a responsibility to act as good stewards to protect the natural resources and wildlife

This year, there have been numerous reports of bears throughout town, mainly taking advantage of easy food sources provided by humans. For the most part, these incidents resulted in nothing more than the cleaning up after the occasional overturned trash carts.

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Two Shows At Nature Center Planetarium Nov. 18-20

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Courtesy/PEEC

Courtesy/PEEC

PEEC News:

The Los Alamos Nature Center planetarium is starting the weekend at 7 p.m., Friday with a fascinating show and presentation about Pueblo Astronomy that unearths the wisdom of ancestral Puebloans and their relationship with celestial events.

The captivating film Black Holes – a voyage through the galaxies in search of answers to the mysteries of black holes – is playing at 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.

For more information about these and future planetarium shows, visit www.peecnature. org/planetarium or Read More