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Chu on CMRR
I took the opportunity of Energy Secretary Steven Chu’s Sandia Labs visit this morning to ask about the fate of the Chemistry and Metallurgy Research Replacement building, the multi-billion dollar... Read more »
Chu talks renewables at Sandia
It would be hard to find a better ambassador for the promise of solar energy research that Cliff Ho. Journal readers have met the Sandia Labs researcher before, when in... Read more »
Around the tubes
Some links worth reading: a road built for 10 trucks a day carries 800 – North Dakota’s oil boom in a nutshell R. Jeffrey Smith untangles the rhetoric surrounding defense... Read more »
Sandia solar center: a favorite photo op
In preparing for tomorrow’s visit to Sandia Labs by Energy Secretary Steven Chu, I ran across this 2005 picture by then-Journal photographer Josh Stephenson of George Bush at the same... Read more »
Chu to visit Sandia Thursday
Energy Secretary Steven Chu is scheduled to visit Sandia National Laboratories Thursday as DOE officials spread out across the United States in an effort to sell the renewable energy and... Read more »
Tiny, inadequate summary of Los Alamos award fee made public
The National Nuclear Security Administration has generously shared a one page summary of its Los Alamos National Laboratory award fee: FY 11 LANL_Fee_Determination Summar For non-Scribd users, the document is... Read more »
Drought update: a bad 2011 for NM ranchers, not much hope in the forecast
As drought ate into rangeland grass, New Mexico’s ranchers ended 2011 with the lowest cattle inventory in 26 years, according to preliminary data presented today (Thurs. 1/19/12) at a state-federal... Read more »
Thinking about WIPP’s future
The folks in Carlsbad have an odd problem with respect to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant – WIPP. It’s the only deep geologic radioactive waste repository in the country, and... Read more »
Hearing in Hobbs Feb. 2 on proposed southeast New Mexico nuclear project
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has scheduled a meeting Feb. 2 in Hobbs to discuss the draft environmental impact statement for a proposed uranium waste treatment plant. The project, proposed... Read more »
Around the Tubes, Ecological Economics Edition
Amid the snap-snap quick hit Internet linkage, a useful designation has grown up on Twitter: #longread, a tip that you should slow down and spend some time. So here’s one... Read more »
Sandia Solar Tower Gets an Upgrade
Sandia Labs’ iconic solar “power tower” is getting an upgrade. Photographer Jim Thompson and I spent the morning touring the site with Cheryl Ghabari, the project manager, who said the... Read more »
Around the tubes
Some links: Bill deBuys points out that which should be obvious: “Even Lake Mead, the biggest reservoir in the country, will eventually run dry if its outgo consistently exceeds income.”... Read more »
