Energy
“If one advance could transform America's prospects, it would be ready access, at scale, to a range of affordable, renewable, low-carbon energy technologies. Only one path will lead to such transformative technologies: research.” - Susan Hockfield
Deploying solar power at the scale needed to alleviate climate change will pose serious challenges for today’s electric power system, finds a study performed by researchers at MIT and the...
From the run-up to the Paris climate talks (COP21) this month to the weeks following their conclusion, the press has repeatedly probed the question of whether the collective climate pledges...
Infrastructure is the material backbone of society — the structures and systems that allow people to live and work and build societal wealth. Planning, building, and operating infrastructure has...
MIT researchers have developed a simple procedure for making a promising type of solar cell using lead recovered from discarded lead-acid car batteries — a practice that could benefit both the...
One day before the Paris climate summit concluded with an agreement to curb greenhouse gas emissions around the globe, MIT students, faculty, and staff packed a room in the Green Building to hear...
Bradford Hager, the Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Earth Sciences at MIT and director of the Earth...
Have you ever wondered what radiation actually is or where you can find it? It turns out that radiation is all around us and its unique properties make it useful for curing diseases, producing...
MIT is determined to support its research and other world-changing activities with efficient, reliable power and utilities. To achieve this in the context of its recent commitment to at least a 32...
An MIT assessment of solar energy technologies concludes that today’s widely used crystalline silicon technology is efficient and reliable and could feasibly be deployed at the large scale needed...
Advances in wireless technology continue to pave the way for better consumer devices. In the future, however, wireless devices could also benefit the automotive industry, by helping diesel engines...
The MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI) is sharing updates on MIT activities at COP21 in Paris. For additional coverage of MIT’s COP21-related news and analysis, visit ...
For D-Lab’s Eric Verploegen Phd '08, statistics are more than, well, statistics — especially when they concern the quality of life for people living in poverty. So when he read about the more than...
While government leaders tackle long-term climate and energy issues on a global scale, the MIT community and others recently joined together for a weekend to solve current industry energy...
Members of MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center (PSFC) community are cheering the start of a long-anticipated physics experiment at the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics in Greifswald,...
A key concern at the Paris climate negotiations (COP21) is to find a fair, effective, and economically viable way to curb greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in developing countries, which are expected...
The “spirit and joy of working on complex but compelling problems and looking for solutions,” as Department of Chemical Engineering head Paula Hammond aptly put it in her opening remarks, brought...
Girls and young women who like to make things should have the opportunity to "build and fail fast," says Grace Overlander SM '08, MBA '08, who recently received the Business Leadership Award...
What attracts students from all over the world to Masdar Institute, a...
U.S. Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter visited MIT on Wednesday, engaging with Institute President L. Rafael Reif and faculty in a roundtable discussion about cutting-edge innovation in...
Meet Joseff Kolman. A junior majoring in both physics and political science, Kolman is the only MIT undergraduate joining three graduate students and numerous MIT faculty in attending this year’s...
When members of the MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center (PSFC) community attended the American Physical Society — Division of Plasma Physics (APS-DPP) meeting in Savannah, Georgia, Nov. 16-20, it...
A group of recommendations issued today sets MIT on a path to align its campus operations along a core set of sustainability principles, setting a strong foundation for rigorous and innovative...
How much heat can two bodies exchange without touching? For over a century, scientists have been able to answer this question for virtually any pair of objects in the macroscopic world, from the...
Today, more than 780 million people worldwide are living without access to fresh water. Drinking the contaminated water they can access often leads to health concerns like diarrhea, diseases, or...
The MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI) has issued the 2015-2016 Research Seed Fund Program supporting innovative early-stage research. This year’s Seed Fund Program is calling for proposals from MIT...