High‑performance grout aims to encapsulate Hanford secondary waste
A WSU Tri-Cities civil engineering team, armed with a new $300,000 grant, is pursuing a cost-effective, sustainable grout to contain contamination at the Hanford nuclear site.
Department of Energy
WSU part of $2.2M grant to advance liquid hydrogen power
PULLMAN, Wash. – Washington State University researchers are part of a team receiving $2.2 million to develop an efficient and inexpensive hydrogen liquefaction system that could pave the way for mainstream availability of hydrogen fuels and hydrogen-powered vehicles.
U.S. Energy Secretary recognizes Link contribution
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Secretary of Energy, Steven Chu, recently honored Lee Link of the WSU Extension Energy Program with the Secretary’s Appreciation Award. The award recognized the “superior performance and leadership to assure success for the U.S. Department of Energy in efforts associated with the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act” of Link and […]
WSU students to show off solar home in national competition
After three years of hard work, students who designed a homemade solar home will watch it drive away.The home was disassembled last week and loaded onto flatbed trucks to travel to Washington D.C., where it will be one of 18 solar homes in the national Department of Energy’s Solar Decathlon competition.On Friday, the container of […]
Students begin construction on solar home project
A group of Washington State University engineering and architecture students are beginning construction on a solar home that will become part of the Department of Energy’s Solar Decathlon competition in Washington, D.C., this October. A groundbreaking ceremony for the project will be held at noon on March 31 in the Thermal Fluids Laboratory on the […]