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
As international negotiators discuss global efforts to confront climate change at the 19th United Nation’s Conference of Parties (COP19), a group of MIT researchers suggest that the current regional...
In deciding how best to meet the world’s growing needs for energy, the answers depend crucially on how the question is framed. Looking for the most cost-effective path provides one set of answers;...
In deciding how best to meet the world’s growing needs for energy, the answers depend crucially on how the question is framed. Looking for the most cost-effective path provides one set of answers;...
The White House announced today that President Barack Obama intends to nominate MIT’s Marc Kastner to head the Department of Energy’s Office of Science, which manages much of the nation’s basic...
As international climate negotiators meet this month for the 19th meeting of the UN Conference of Parties (COP19), there’s an increasing realization that top-down efforts to confront climate change...
The White House announced today that President Barack Obama intends to nominate MIT’s Marc Kastner to head the Department of Energy’s Office of Science, which manages much of the nation’s basic...
As international climate negotiators meet this month for the 19th meeting of the UN Conference of Parties (COP19), there’s an increasing realization that top-down efforts to confront climate change...
Lithium-air batteries have become a hot research area in recent years: They hold the promise of drastically increasing power per battery weight, which could lead, for example, to electric cars with a...
Lithium-air batteries have become a hot research area in recent years: They hold the promise of drastically increasing power per battery weight, which could lead, for example, to electric cars with a...
When an earthquake and tsunami struck Japan’s Fukushima nuclear power plant in 2011, knocking out emergency power supplies, crews sprayed seawater on the reactors to cool them — to no avail.
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When an earthquake and tsunami struck Japan’s Fukushima nuclear power plant in 2011, knocking out emergency power supplies, crews sprayed seawater on the reactors to cool them — to no avail.
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Many efforts to smooth out the variability of renewable energy sources — such as wind and solar power — have focused on batteries, which could fill gaps lasting hours or days.
But MIT...
The concept of a market-based mechanism to curb emissions of greenhouse gases — and thus slow the pace of climate change — has often been suggested in recent decades. But one particular version of...
Many efforts to smooth out the variability of renewable energy sources — such as wind and solar power — have focused on batteries, which could fill gaps lasting hours or days.
But MIT’s...
But MIT’s...
The concept of a market-based mechanism to curb emissions of greenhouse gases — and thus slow the pace of climate change — has often been suggested in recent decades. But one particular version of...
United States Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi, the U.S. House Democratic Leader, visited the Plasma Science and Fusion Center (PSFC) on Oct. 31 to learn about MIT’s fusion experiment, Alcator C-Mod. The C...
Efficient heat and mass transfer for devices from a thermal battery to air condition electric vehicles to cooling for steam power plants is the focus of Evelyn Wang, Associate Professor of Mechanical...
United States Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi, the U.S. House Democratic Leader, visited the Plasma Science and Fusion Center (PSFC) on Oct. 31 to learn about MIT’s fusion experiment, Alcator C-Mod. The C...
Efficient heat and mass transfer for devices from a thermal battery to air condition electric vehicles to cooling for steam power plants is the focus of Evelyn Wang, Associate Professor of Mechanical...
How can technical analyses better inform policies? This question was the focus of a three-day forum hosted by the MIT Leading Technology and Policy (LTP) Initiative at Endicott House from Sept. 25-27...
How can technical analyses better inform policies? This question was the focus of a three-day forum hosted by the MIT Leading Technology and Policy (LTP) Initiative at Endicott House from Sept. 25-27...
As the U.S. and other large nations experience the benefits of a natural gas boom, smaller countries — from Tanzania to Cyprus — are hoping to reap the rewards too and use the resource to spur their...
As the U.S. and other large nations experience the benefits of a natural gas boom, smaller countries — from Tanzania to Cyprus — are hoping to reap the rewards too and use the resource to spur their...
As dark clouds blew over Cambridge on Oct. 7, it was the first time that the luminous “Fantasies from Verdi’s Operas” — pieces composed by Giuseppe Verdi’s friends and colleagues in homage to the...
As dark clouds blew over Cambridge on Oct. 7, it was the first time that the luminous “Fantasies from Verdi’s Operas” — pieces composed by Giuseppe Verdi’s friends and colleagues in homage to the...