Can solar energy be harnessed to address climate change and other impacts of the world’s dependence on carbon-based fuels? A Sandia team that includes principal investigator Tony McDaniel in the Hydrogen and Combustion Research Department and Ivan Ermanoski in the Materials, Devices, and Energy Technologies Department, has taken significant steps toward an intriguing possibility: creating…
The Fuel Cell Mobile Light has been field-tested in a number of interesting locations—highway shoulder work for Caltrans, airfield maintenance operations at San Francisco International Airport (SFO), at Hollywood awards ceremonies like the Academy Awards, Golden Globes, and Grammy’s, and at the final Space Shuttle launch in 2011. The Connecticut Department of Transportation (CT DOT)…
At the 22nd annual Sandia/California Math & Science Awards last month, CRF researchers Patricia Gharagozloo, a mechanical engineer, and Karla Morris, a software engineer, shared their career journeys with the award recipients, 22 young women from area high schools. While their paths were quite different, they started with something in common—in high school, neither saw…