U.S.: Tremendous research crosscutting potential seen for subsurface science and engineering
U.S. Geothermal Resources Map, DOE, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)
Francisco Rojas
24 Sep 2014
At a recent “ideas summit,” he said, top Department of Energy and lab officials discussed other crosscutting capabilities that the agency will propose to emphasize as part of its fiscal year 2016 budget submission.
In a recent public event, the U.S. Energy Secretary, Ernest Moniz held an event to display for US senators some of the US national laboratories’ capabilities.
Mr. Moniz cited subsurface science and engineering as “a place where we are not probably as well recognized as having tremendous capacity that cuts across so many of our programs: hydrocarbon production, geothermal, nuclear waste management, carbon sequestration etc.” The agency’s high-performance computing programs, once mainly the province of the nuclear weapons enterprise, have migrated to involve primarily the science and energy programs.
At a recent “ideas summit,” he said, top Department of Energy and lab officials discussed other crosscutting capabilities that the agency will propose to emphasize as part of its fiscal year 2016 budget submission.
Source: AIP Scitation
