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23 May 2016
Billions of gallons of water are used each day in the United States for energy production—for hydroelectric power generation, thermoelectric plant cooling, and countless other industrial processes, including oil and gas mining. This interdependence of water and energy is the focus of a major new research effort at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab).
23 May 2016
Berkeley Lab investigators are using fundamental research to address the interdependent challenges of water and energy, as regional climates change, and populations grow. The Berkeley Lab’s collective expertise can use both fundamental research and technological advances to meet these challenges.
21 Mar 2016
Berkeley Lab scientists in the Energy Geosciences Division (EGD) are conducting a study commissioned by California’s oil field regulating agency — the Division of Oil, Gas and Geothermal Resources — to examine possible links between oil field wastewater injection and earthquakes.
14 Apr 2016
California’s water supplies are facing unprecedented stresses, and the state’s water-management systems are struggling to meet both environmental and human needs (agricultural, municipal, industrial).
22 Jan 2016
Is it safe to use treated oilfield wastewater to irrigate almond, pistachio and citrus groves? William Stringfellow, environmental engineer in Earth and Environmental Sciences (Energy Geosciences Division), says, “We’re not able to answer the public definitely, and say there’s no problem.”
11 Dec 2015
The subsurface is being increasingly utilised both as a resource and as an energy and waste repository. Historically, there have been few issues of concern related to competition between resources, with groundwater contamination being a notable exception.
LBNL is one of the main international research organizations addressing concerns about potential impact of deployment of CO2 geological storage on the nation’s groundwater resources.
18 Nov 2015
With California in an extreme drought, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) started a number of water conservation efforts two years ago.
27 Aug 2015
This is a call for developing low-tech solutions to treat water contaminated by uranium mining in low income, developing countries.
13 Apr 2015
Berkeley Lab earth scientist Kenneth Hurst Williams, recently featured in DOE JGI’s collaborating science videos, describes the DOE-BER supported research activities at the Rifle, Colorado field site (Genomes-to-Watershed Scientific Focus Area (SFA2.0) and its relationship to other contaminated floodplains within the DOE complex.