National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Whoa look out geeks working towards the future. My dad always talked about this place since I was a kid. Back then it was called SERI (Solar Energy Research Institute). When I was in high school I was so into the idea of electrolysis I got my mom to take me on a tour here and got the offer to come do a volunteer internship or something. I came back a few years later with the MIT solar race car crushed all competition in 96′ or 95′.
So pre ⁹⁄₁₁ you were able to pretty much come and go as you pleased. fast forward to today and when a tour was offered as an even for the DNC I said «Sweet let’s see the advances they have made in 15 years». Little did I know that despite staying very near the place I would have to drive to Denver take a bus to the site get the tour ride the bus back and then drive all the way back. Can you say paranoid. Are they afraid that someone will steal the defunct research on cold-​fusion? Is it really that high of profile place. I decided to save the fossil fuels and wait to take a tour when I wouldn’t need a full body cavity search.
But the place is still sweet and the work they do there is awesome too.