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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) Strategic Plan is the guiding force for our research and development for the next ten years. It clearly charts a path toward clean-energy solutions and focuses on five detailed Strategic Initiatives. The Plan provides an in-depth look at how ETA is accelerating research to provide affordable, clean energy to all while accomplishing deep, economy-wide decarbonization, looking to avoid a rise in global average temperature while simultaneously developing solutions to increase humanity's resilience to extreme weather volatility.
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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.

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2001

McKone, Thomas E, Agnes Bodnar, and Edgar G Hertwich."Development and evaluation of state-specific landscape data sets for multimedia source-to-dose models." (2001).

Sohn, Michael D, Thomas E McKone, Mark L Rigas, Jerry N Blancato, and Frederick W Power."Reconstructing exposure scenarios using dose biomarkers: An application of Bayesian uncertainty analysis." (2001).

2000

Hopke, Philip K, Thomas B Borak, John Doull, James E Cleaver, Keith F Eckerman, Linda C.S Gundersen, Naomi H Harley, C. C Thomas Hess, Nancy E Kinner, Kenneth J Kopecky, Thomas E McKone, Richard G Sextro, and Steven L Simon."Health Risks Due to Radon in Drinking Water."Environmental Science & Technology 34.6 (2000) 921-926. DOI

Bennett, Deborah H, Thomas E McKone, William E Kastenberg, Robert L Lipnick, Bo Janson, Donald Mackay, and Myrto Petreas."CART screening level analysis of characteristic time -- a case study. ACS Symposium Series 773."Persistent, Bioaccumulative, Toxic Chemicals II Assessment and New Chemicals (2000).

Bennett, Deborah H, Thomas E McKone, William E Kastenberg, Robert L Lipnick, Bo Janson, Donald Mackay, and Myrto Petreas."CART screening level analysis of characteristic time — a case study. ACS Symposium Series 773."Persistent, Bioaccumulative, Toxic Chemicals II Assessment and New Chemicals (2000).

Bennett, Deborah H, Thomas E McKone, and William E Kastenberg."Evaluating multimedia chemical persistence in a multimedia environment: A CART analysis."Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 19 (2000) 810-819.

van de Meent, Dik, Thomas E McKone, Thomas F Parkerton, Michael Matthies, Martin Scheringer, Frank Wania, Rich Purdy, Deborah H Bennett, Gary M Klečka, Robert S Boethling, Diana Graham, Les Grady Jr, James G.M Franklin, Philip H Howard, Kurunthachalam Kannan, Robert J Larson, Donald Mackay, and Derek Muir."Persistence and Transport Potential of Chemicals In A Multimedia Environment."Persistence and Long-Range Transport of Organic Chemicals in the Environment:Guidelines and Criteria for Evaluation and Assessment (2000).

1999

Hertwich, Edgar G, Thomas E McKone, and William S Pease."Parameter uncertainty and variability in evaluative fate and exposure models."Risk Analysis 19.6 (1999) 1193-1204. DOI

McKone, Thomas E."The rise of exposure assessment among the risk sciences: an evaluation through case studies."Inhalation Toxicology 11.6-7 (1999) 101-112. DOI

Bennett, Deborah H, William E Kastenberg, and Thomas E McKone."A multimedia, multiple pathway exposure assessment of atrazine: the impact of age differentiated exposure including joint uncertainty and variability."Reliability Engineering and System Safety 63.2 (1999) 185-198.

Maddalena, Randy L, Thomas E McKone, Agnes Bodnar, and Janet Jacobson."Development and Evaluation of Probability Density Functions for a Set of Human Exposure Factors." (1999).

1998

Bennett, Deborah H, A L James, Thomas E McKone, and Curtis M Oldenburg."On uncertainty in remediation analysis: variance propagation for subsurface transport to exposure modeling."Reliability Engineering and System Safety 62.1-2 (1998) 117-129. DOI

McKone, Thomas E, and Agnes Bodnar."Improved Landfill Simulations Based on the CalTOX Framework." (1998).

1997

McKone, Thomas E, and Randy L Maddalena."Soil Contamination and Human Exposure: A Comprehensive Assessment Framework."International Journal of Toxicology 16 (1997) 319-337.

1996

Dowdy, Deanna L, Thomas E McKone, and Dennis P.H Hsieh."The Use of the Molecular Connectivity Index for Estimating Biotransfer Factors."Environmental Science & Technology 30.3 (1996) 984-989. DOI

McKone, Thomas E."Overview of the risk analysis approach and terminology: The merging of science, judgment, and values."Food Control 7.2 (1996) 69-76. DOI