Los Alamos County workers are on the job this morning repairing a water line break at Meadow Lane and Lejano Drive in White Rock. Photo by Bernadette Lauritzen
Water flowing from the water line break to the sewer near the entrance to Overlook Park this morning in White Rock. Photo by Bernadette Lauritzen Read More
Dr. Shari Kelley
LAGS News:
Los Alamos Geological Society (LAGS) will host its monthly meeting at 7 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 24, at the Los Alamos Christian Church at 92 East Road.
The guest speaker for the evening is Dr. Shari Kelley, presenting her talk: “Geothermal Development in New Mexico: an Update”.
Kelley is a senior research scientist at the New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources, a research division of New Mexico Tech. She served as an expert witness at committee meetings during the New Mexico Legislative session in 2023 and 2024 that led to the passing of House Bill 91, which established Read More
EMNRD News:
SANTA FE — The New Mexico Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources Department is launching a series of public forums to gather ideas for developing the state’s first Comprehensive Energy Transition Strategy.
The seven forums will be held at various locations across the state. Each individual forum will focus on how that specific region can contribute to, and benefit from, New Mexico’s transition a clean energy economy. The first forum is scheduled for Jan. 28 from 9 a.m. to noon at New Mexico Junior College in Hobbs.
“These public policy forums are a transparent way to get New Mexicans Read More
By RICK NEBEL
Los Alamos
This letter is a comment on two of the op-ed pieces that appeared in last week’s Los Alamos Daily Post: Robert Gibson’s article (link) and Paul Gessing’s article (link). Mr. Gibson pointed out that electrification is nothing new. However, the present scale of it is unprecedented. Mr. Gessing pointed this out in his article. He congratulated the governor for getting commitments to bring 3 new AI data centers to New Mexico.
The interesting part is that just 1 of those data centers consumes about 7 GW. I don’t have firm numbers on this, but the present total consumption Read More
COUNTY News:
Hot showers on cold days can feel so nice … but… time slips away, and that quick-shower intention becomes a 20…30…40…minute ordeal.
Low-flow shower heads have come a long way from their trickling past.
Some work so well it seems like you could wash an elephant!
The pressure feels great at 1.5 gallons per minute.
And at that pressure, you can enjoy that 20-minute shower and still use less water than a standard bath (40 gallons). Read More
BY ROBERT GIBSON
Chair
Los Alamos County Board of Public Utilities
Electrification is the conversion to electric power of devices or processes that previously used other forms of energy. Today, the term commonly refers to conversions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from burning hydrocarbon fuels. That is not the only motivation. It may not even be the biggest.
Americans have been electrifying since Edison’s first “grid” in the early 1880s. Electric lights replaced oil lamps and candles. Electric motors replaced muscle power. Electric refrigerators replaced ice boxes. The list is endless. Read More
Jim Ellison, Jr.
ALBUQUERQUE – James “Jim” F. Ellison, Jr., a former Commissioner of the New Mexico Public Regulation Commission (NMPRC), announced this morning his campaign for Governor of New Mexico.
In a statement announcing his candidacy, Ellison highlighted that policies under current Democratic leadership have set the stage for a dramatic increase in electric rates, and articulated his vision for a New Mexico that prioritizes affordability for its citizens and moves the economy forward.
“Over the next 10 years, electric rates will double or triple if our state continues Read More
Julien Loiseau designed the logo for the school himself, including a prickly pear and symbols for each of the main disciplines. Courtesy/LANL
LANL News:
For graduate students interested in high-performance computing, few problems today can be solved in isolation. Modern scientific challenges demand collaboration across disciplines — researchers working together to design software and algorithms that run efficiently on the world’s most powerful machines.
That philosophy Read More
Salt Waste Processing Facility, left, and Defense Waste Processing Facility at Savannah River Site. Courtesy/EM
EM News:
AIKEN, S.C. — The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Environmental Management (EM) announced the successful completion of major optimizations across the Savannah River Site’s (SRS) liquid waste treatment system, dramatically accelerating the processing rate of radioactive tank waste and supporting America’s energy and national security goals.
Recent facility optimizations at both the Salt Waste Processing Facility (SWPF) and Defense Waste Processing Read More
By transforming solution-processed nanomaterials into lasing-ready emitters, this breakthrough paves the way for compact, tunable, and energy-efficient quantum-dot light sources that will power the next generation of on-chip photonic technologies. Credit: Donghyo Hahm
LANL News:
A new study led by researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory made a major advance in quantum dot laser technology: the demonstration of low-threshold, continuous-wave (CW) lasing using solution-processed colloidal Read More