Presolicitation: Brookhaven National Laboratory $184,300,000
Project Type: Presolicitation
Project Owner: US Department of Energy
Location: New York, United States, Suffolk (NY), Upton (NY), 11973
Estimated Value: $184,300,000
Estimated Jobs: N/A - Congressional Budget Office
As compared with
2009 - White House Council of Economic Advisors
Category: Construction - Hospitals and Medical Facilities, Research and Development Facilities, Laboratory Equipment and Supplies
Market Sector: Federal
Publication Date: 03/25/2009
Additional Documents: Presolicitation
Description: FEDERAL ECONOMIC RECOVERY SPENDING. Brookhaven National Laboratory (Upton, NY) -- $184.3 million The largest share for accelerated construction of NSLS-II, as noted above. Smaller sums for construction of an Interdisciplinary Sciences Building, to house high-accuracy instruments for research in solar energy, biofuels, solid state lighting, and superconductivity. Building repairs and improvements, and accelerated acquisition of equipment for experiments at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider,...

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Here is what 116 people think:
73.3% - Worthwhile (85 Votes)
23 - Energy Efficiency
16 - Environmental
34 - Long-Term Value
12 - Short-Term Value
26.7% - Unnecessary (31 Votes)
9 - Fraud/Abuse
6 - Not Competitive
16 - Too Costly

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Karl  Nov-19-2009 12:12:35 PM
Brookhaven is a dinosaur of a lab. I thought it was being phased out and condemned. No "bang" for the buck here--vastly increases opportunity cost for very little benefit. The experiments would be better moved to CERN, a state-of-the-art facility, rather than a cold war relic. Reply

Jon  Nov-11-2009 05:47:33 PM
Honestly, I do wish something could be done to bring alternative energies to long island. I just read an article about an Alaskan entrepreneur who devised a system to leverage water deep in the earth, which is roughly the temperature of a cup of coffee, and they use it to expand refrigerant which generates the pressure to turn a turbine. The government and DOE should be connecting the intellect in BNL to his idea and a viable deployment strategy for long island. Reply

Suzhou  Nov-11-2009 05:00:39 PM
This is a worth while project but it should be funded by the normal budget not the Recovery Funds. This has almost nothing to do with the recession. Reply

Carlitos  Aug-17-2009 01:09:19 PM
Big energy research and superfund clean up projects seem to be getting a disproportionate share of the stimulus money. Reply

C  Sep-23-2009 06:43:34 AM
Reply to Carlitos : Big energy research was slashed for the eight years prior under Bush II. And, you do know that Superfund is the gov's effort to clean up messes abandoned by companies. I'd like to know what you'd prefer to spend it on. Reply

Eric  Nov-18-2009 05:58:48 AM
Reply to C : I agree with C's reply to Carlitos Reply

Adam  May-21-2009 04:52:57 AM
Yes, Super Colliders are important to science, but the Swiss already have a state if the art collider and BNL is a bureacratic waste of tax money. $184 million sounds to good to be true and what about the $43 million to demantle the 2 experimental reactors and clean up the contaminated soil. All this with out cost overuns??? I doubt it! Reply

Doug  Jul-27-2009 11:15:28 AM
Reply to Adam : I see that Suffolk County too has not had much stimulus money spent on local projects to help reduce local taxes. Must be all this money spent on all these federal projects will give us all big tax refunds from what it will save the federal government, eh? Are people being hired with stimulus money that is just money already IN the federal budget ? Shuffling, not adding money. Federal Abracadabra-Poof! here's something NEW??!! Reply

C  Sep-23-2009 06:51:51 AM
Reply to Adam : Adam this isn't a supercollider, it is a multi experiment facility. If these types of things are to continue to be useful; they'll need an upgrade every now and again. I'll agree that BNL is a terrible buearucracy (I work for them). Reactors don't have a darn thing in common with this type of research. Did you ever hear of a gov project without cost overruns? It has something to do with the way gov works; not the projects themselves. Reply

B C  May-20-2009 10:49:02 AM
Great. Another giant collider. Seems like a bargain for $184 million. Reply

Barack  Sep-23-2009 06:55:39 AM
Reply to B C : Oops, should I have ordered more army tanks instead? Pls post your answer soon, people keep calling, asking for jobs. Reply

fed up  Nov-19-2009 07:41:31 AM
Reply to Barack : 1 very simple suggestion...how about investing border and port security dumbass Reply

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