Energy

Renowned energy expert Daniel Yergin will kick off the initiative Jan. 21 with a virtual discussion of his latest book, “The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations.”

The inaugural Energy Venture Investment Summit will be held virtually Feb. 10-11, 2021.

Meagan Papac, a joint Mines-NREL PhD student, is the lead author of the new research, published today in the journal Nature Materials.

Rebekah Moline, a master's student in the Nuclear Science and Engineering Program, is one of 100 graduate students worldwide to win the competitive scholarship from the International Atomic Energy Agency.

Colorado School of Mines has entered a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Penn State University to establish a collaboration designed to be responsive in supporting the need for critical minerals

Mines' Kathryn Johnson is co-leading the controls work for the innovative 10‐MW Ultraflexible Smart Floating Offshore Wind Turbine (USFLOWT).

[Editor's note: This article first appeared on the Oak Ridge National Laboratory website. ORNL has provided Mines Newsroom with permission to re-share it here.] By Jeremy Rumsey, Oak Ridge National

“This proof-of-concept work could provide a useful starting point for the design of future materials for reversible gas storage,” Mines PhD candidate James M. Crawford said.

"A critical challenge facing the practical implementation of fusion power is the effective and safe management of tritium," said Mines' Colin Wolden, lead investigator on the new $1.4 million ARPA-E project with Idaho National Laboratory.

Applied chemistry PhD student Sarah Zaccarine will be doing electrolyzer degradation studies at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory as part of her graduate thesis research.