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.
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