The Pacific Northwest National Laboratory re-launched the site earlier this month with updated data and tweaks to make it more user-friendly.

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In fact, she said, Energy Northwest is still considering whether or not to commission an 18-month-long feasibility study on the idea in partnership with the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.

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Engineers at the federally funded Pacific Northwest National Laboratory showed that by equipping appliances and thermostats with a few cheap microchips and Internet connections, they could cut peak demand by as much as 50%.

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The research by University of Idaho and Washington State University scientists in cooperation with the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory was published in Environmental Health Perspectives, a journal of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.

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As for reducing energy demand and protecting the DOD from energy fluctuations, a study undertaken at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory investigated some key conditions that will have to be met if biofuel algae were to replace 17% of U.S. petroleum as President Obama has proposed.

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Taking all these things together the burial of the charcoal and the substitution for fossil fuels of the heat, gas and oil produced by its manufacture Johannes Lehmann of Cornell University and Jim Amonette of the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Washington state suggest that a reduction of between one and two gigatonnes of carbon-emission a year might be achievable.

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