Obsidian—volcanic glass—was a material of choice for prehistoric tool and weapon makers. Determining the age of the objects they left behind has always been a challenge for archaeologists. Several ...

The printers available on the ORNL Visitor Wireless Network are listed below. Configuring Your PC to Print via the ORNL Visitor Wireless Network Windows - you can ...

What is a radiant barrier? Radiant barriers are materials that are installed in buildings to reduce summer heat gain and winter heat loss, and hence to reduce building heating and cooling energy usage ...

Estimates Cooling and Heating Savings for Flat Roofs with Non-Black Surfaces ...

Adding more insulation where you already have some, such as in an attic, will save energy. You can save even greater amounts of energy if you install insulation into ...

Atomic models are the basic building blocks of a DEVS model. The behavior of an atomic model is described by its state transition functions (internal, external, and confluent), its output function, ...

If you are buying or building a new house, make sure that energy-saving features are included. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) home insulation rule requires the ...

Inaugurated in 1979, the "Buildings Conference" takes place every three years allowing time to develop new research and technology applications and to document the findings. Attendance is ...

The structures were relaxed by performing highly converged density functional calculations. The geometries were obtained from all-electron calculations [157] using the B3LYP hybrid functional [154] ...

Here's some help for entering values in the DOE Cool Roof Calculator, either the CoolCalcEnergy or the CoolCalcPeak versions There are 243 different locations built into the pull-down lists in the ...

ORNL helped the Southwire Company set technological history February 18 when the cable manufacturing company energized an electrical power cable utilizing superconductivity. Secretary of Energy Bill ...

ORNL researchers, support staff, leadership, and a beta group of more than 200 staff from throughout the laboratory helped shape RESolution’s functionality. Further development is ongoing, based ...