Richard Baran

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

• Database Helps Building Owners, Investors Evaluate Energy Efficient Buildings
  A new database of building features and energy use data helps building managers, owners, real estate investors, and lenders evaluate the financial results of energy efficiency investment projects and identify high and low-performing buildings. […]
• California's Efforts to Clean up Diesel Engines Reduced Impact of Climate Change on State
  Berkeley Lab has partnered in a study showing that clean diesel programs have slashed black carbon, a powerful short-term contributor to global warming. […]
• Berkeley Lab Team Uncovers Secrets of Biological Soil Crusts
  A team of Lab researchers has performed molecular level analysis of desert biological soil crusts - living ground cover formed by microbial communities - to reveal how long-dormant cyanobacteria become activated by rainfall, then resume dormancy when the precipitation stops. […]
• New Imaging Technique Captures Ever-Changing World of Metabolites
  The kinetic world of metabolites comes to life thanks to a new imaging technique that maps the whereabouts of metabolites in a biological sample--and how new they are. […]
• Testing Artificial Photosynthesis
  Lab researchers, working at the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis (JCAP), have developed the first fully integrated test-bed for evaluating and optimizing solar-driven electrochemical energy conversion systems. […]

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