Sandia experiments may reduce possibility of future water wars
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - A method that uses roughly only one-hundredth the fresh water customarily needed to grow forage for livestock may leave much more water available for human consumption, as well as for residential and industrial uses. As a byproduct, it also may add formerly untapped solar energy to the electrical grid.... ...The method for lessening water use is being tested by 42 wireless sen...$6 million appropriation to focus Sandia research on drinking water desalination, removal of arsenic
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Research in the areas of desalination and removal of arsenic in water will step up at the National Nuclear Security Administration's Sandia National Laboratories over the next few years, the result of a $6 million allocation in the FY2004 federal Energy and Water Development Appropriations bill.... ...The allocation will include $3 million for desalination and $3 million for a...Sandia-aided method to heal wounded and diseased achieves US government acceptance
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - A disposable plastic bag resembling the common kitchen garbage bag, its interior fed by a simple oxygen canister monitored by inexpensive, deceptively simple plastic instruments, has been licensed by the federal government as a tool to heal the sick and the wounded in the nation's military, both active and retired. The healing tool also is being tested for use by the elderly,...Sandia pursues biotechnology as new technology focus area
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Sandia National Laboratories is expanding its work in biotechnology - combining traditional inorganic sciences with biology - to push scientific discovery and development into such areas as the creation of new materials and to help in America's war on terrorism. ......"The same way computers dominated the past 20 years, biology is going to dominate this new century like nothin...Sandia-developed formulation among products selected to help rid U.S. facilities of anthrax
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. Federal authorities are using a decontamination formulation developed at the National Nuclear Security Administrations (NNSA) Sandia National Laboratories to help rid Capitol Hill buildings of anthrax this week.... Cleanup workers have taken quantities of the formulation with them into Congressional office buildings as one of the decontamination products selected to help remed...Sandia portable chemical sensor system promises new way of detecting underwater explosives
.ALBUQUERQUE, NM -- A portable chemical sensor system the size of a soccer ball.being developed by scientists at the Department of Energy's Sandia National.Laboratories, promises a new way of detecting and identifying even the smallest.traces of explosives under water, whether in a rice paddy or deep in the ocean.. .The chemical sensor system consists of separate components that take a sample of...Sandia-developed remote sensor expected to analyze gases up to two miles away
.ALBUQUERQUE-- A new remote sensor the size of a dime being developed by the.Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories should allow users to.rapidly detect dangerous gases from up to two miles away.. .Called Polychromator, the device will use a combination of optics and.microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) to determine gas types. It is joint effort.of Honeywell, Massachusetts Institut...Sandia, University Of Montana Researchers Try Training Bees To Find Buried Landmines
.ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.--Bees dutifully going about their daily.business -- gathering nectar and pollen and taking it back.to the hive -- may one day help protect the lives and limbs.of people, literally, if a landmine-detection demonstration.at the Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories.is successful.. .Sandia chemists are working with entomologists at the.University of Montana to see i...Sandia Discovery About Protein May Help Clean Up Pollutants, Find Cures For Diseases
.ALBUQUERQUE, N.M -- A discovery linking the shape of a unit called the heme in a.protein to protein function may prove useful in a range of scientific.advances, including finding cures for diseases and cleaning up pollutants, says.discoverer John Shelnutt, a physicist at the Department of Energy's Sandia.National Laboratories. The first time such a correlation has been made, the.discovery is...Sandia Decontamination Foam May Be Tomorrow's Best First Response In A Chem-Bio Attack
.ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Emergency personnel responding to a terrorist release of.chemical or biological warfare agents will be faced with a dilemma: If they.enter the scene without knowing the dangers, they might become a victim. If they.wait to evaluate, more people might die -- or worse, an agent could spread and.cause widespread casualties.. .A better option may be available soon. Researchers a....ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.--In the presence of wheelchair-bound Bill "Willie" Shoemaker--America's .winningest jockey until he suffered a severe spinal injury in an.auto accident in 1991--representatives of the Department of Energy's Sandia.National Laboratories signed a $5.76 million cooperative research and.development agreement (CRADA) with Northridge, California-based Numotech, Inc.,.a company that....ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.--As part of a Sandia National Laboratories-led effort to.create a worldwide disease tracking network, hospital emergency rooms in three.New Mexico cities and in a formerly secret Russian city this week began.gathering and posting on the Internet information about an emerging disease,.hepatitis C, that physicians say could have major world health implications.. The Centers for...