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Energy Technologies Area (ETA) researchers are continually building on the strong scientific foundation we have developed over the past 50 years. We address the world’s most pressing climate challenges by bringing to market energy-efficient innovations across the buildings, transportation, and industrial sectors. ETA is at the forefront of developing better batteries for electric vehicles; improving the country's aging electrical grid and innovating distributed energy and storage solutions; developing grid-interactive, efficient buildings; and providing the most comprehensive market and data analysis worldwide for renewable technologies like wind and solar.
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The Energy Technologies Area (ETA) is unique in translating fundamental scientific discoveries into scalable technology adoption. Our approach combines an understanding of the marketplace and the role of state and federal regulation and policies. ETA's research drives real-world, practical results that affect and improve the everyday lives of Americans and those across the globe. Saving energy and battling the Climate Crisis are key to the foundation of our research, which is driven by technoeconomic analysis and in-lab experimentation and discovery.

Bill Nye's Climate Lab Website for Kids and Their Families Opens

March 24, 2010

Bill Nye's Climate Lab is an educational website developed and presented by Chabot Space and Science Center, Oakland, California. Chabot partnered with Emmy-award-winning science educator Bill Nye the Science Guy and science advisors, including Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and UC Berkeley, to inspire kids and families to reduce energy consumption and find solutions to a warming planet.

BillsClimateLab.org offers fun missions and activities that increase climate literacy and teach energy-saving strategies for many areas of daily life. The new hands-on exhibition, Bill Nye's Climate Lab, will open at Chabot Space and Science Center in late 2010. It explores the effects of climate change on Earth's interconnected systems; use of the sun, wind, land, and water to generate clean energy; and innovative technology and design that will yield long-term benefits for human health and the planet.

The science advisors from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), UC Berkeley, and affiliated institutions are:

Allan Chen, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
Dr. Bill Collins, Berkeley Lab and University of California, Berkeley
Dr. Inez Fung, Berkeley Lab and University of California, Berkeley
Dr. Dan Kammen, University of California, Berkeley
Dr. Susan Jenkins, Energy Biosciences Institute; University of California, Berkeley
Dr. Michael Levi, Berkeley Lab
Dr. Chris Somerville, Berkeley Lab, Energy Biosciences Institute; University of California, Berkeley
Dr. Paul Willems, BP; Energy Biosciences Institute

In addition, the following researchers from the Environmental Energy Technologies Division provided assistance to the Chabot Space and Science development team:

"Howdy" Goudey
Steve Greenberg
Christian Kohler
Mary Ann Piette
Jonathan Slack
Iain Walker
Thomas Wenzel

Author

Allan Chen