Berkeley Lab researchers David Romps and Rusen Oktem collected these images in Florida, showing 14 minutes of cloud movements.
New Solar Energy Research Center will foster development of fuels from sunlight; building will be named for Steven Chu, former Berkeley Lab Director and Energy Secretary. Berkeley, CA, May 26, 2015- Mother Nature makes it happen so effortlessly and efficiently-turning sunlight, water and carbon dioxide into the building blocks for fuel for plants, that is. Now, researchers have a new home to replicate Mother Nature's mysteries. The Solar Energy Research Center (SERC) opened today at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and will house laboratories and offices devoted to photovoltaic and electro-chemical solar energy systems designed to improve on what plants do and make transportation fuels. The building houses the lab's programs in the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis (JCAP), a Department of Energy hub led by the California Institute of Technology, with Berkeley Lab as a major partner. "We believe the opening of this building will provide a significant boost to solar fuels research," says Berkeley Lab Director Paul Alivisatos. "It puts our researchers, from various disciplines, together in a single space, close to UC Berkeley and Berkeley Lab colleagues studying similar challenges." Previously, JCAP researchers were in a leased space in West Berkeley.
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