Center for Advanced BioEnergy Research, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Monday, October 22, 2007

Sandia National Lab Focusing On Using Less Oil

Some of the same institutions that brought you the hydrogen bomb are now working on a new mission: Figuring out how to build a hydrogen car.

Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore, Calif., is part of a complex of government funded institutions where, during the Cold War, teams of scientists did heavy thinking about nuclear weaponry and other super secret military technologies. The national laboratories still do a lot of that kind of work. But at Sandia, about 20% of the lab's effort is now focused on a different security issue – how to reduce consumption of oil.

Technologists at the Sandia Lab are researching the basic science of a variety of alternative approaches to the gasoline-fueled internal-combustion engines. Some of this work is funded by auto makers and truck engine builders. Some of it is your tax dollars at work.

Wall Street Journal Online, Oct. 22, 2007

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