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The latest in energy from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Listen to hand-picked articles from the MIT Energy Initiative covering the future of energy.
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MIT senior Sylas Horowitz is tackling engineering projects with a focus on challenges related to clean energy, climate justice, and sustainable development. Their personal mission is to create systems and technology that "serve the well-being and longevity of communities and the ecosystems we exist within."
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A modeling framework by MIT researchers can help speed the development of flow batteries for large-scale, long-duration electricity storage on the future grid.
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Climate Action Through Education is a new multidisciplinary climate change curriculum for high schools that aims to engage and mobilize teachers and students in a range of disciplines—from science to language arts to math.
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Combustion experts at MIT have designed a system that uses flames to produce materials critical to lithium-ion batteries. Their combustion-based method promises to be simpler, much quicker, and far less energy-intensive than the conventional method now used to manufacture cathode materials.
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With the help of a children’s toy called Shrinky Dinks, carbon-based materials, nail polish, and a certain smelly bacterium, high school students spent the summer in an MIT lab creating electrodes for low-cost microbial fuel cells.
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By studying how climate change is affecting wind of the future, MIT Assistant Professor Michael Howland is optimizing wind farms and finding ways to create more reliable energy production.
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The chemical industry is the world’s largest industrial energy consumer and the third largest source of industrial emissions; and yet, the chemical industry has been largely untouched when it comes to decarbonization. In a new paper, researchers from MIT and DC-MUSE urge industry and the research community to explore electrification pathways to reduce chemical industry emissions.
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As MITEI’s director of education, Antje Danielson manages a team devoted to training the next generation of energy innovators, entrepreneurs, and policy makers. She discusses new initiatives in MITEI’s education program and how they are preparing students to take an active role in climate action.
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A new development from MIT can quickly and easily turn any surface into a power source. These thin-film solar cells weigh about 100x less than conventional solar cells while generating about 18x more power-per-kg.
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The next issue of the MIT Energy Initiative's Energy Futures magazine is releasing this month. In this episode, we are sharing a sneak peek of some of the engaging energy stories in our upcoming issue.
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At MITEI's Fall Colloquium, Philip Sharp, the former president of Resources for the Future, highlighted dramatic steps the U.S. government has recently taken to combat climate change despite a seemingly unending series of once-in-a-generation crises.
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Could battery power from electric vehicles dispatched to the grid open a fast lane to a net-zero future? A new MITEI study uncovers how electric vehicles could boost renewable energy growth by serving as "energy storage on wheels."
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1How do different carbon tax policies impact U.S. household budgets? MIT researchers have developed a method to determine which U.S. households win and lose financially under these policies and suggest corrections to avoid inequities.
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The 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27) is currently taking place in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, bringing together governments, experts, journalists, industry, and civil society to discuss climate action to enable countries to collectively sharply limit anthropogenic climate change. Before the conference, MITEI Deputy Director for Science and Technology Robert Stoner spoke with us about the climate and infrastructure laws enacted in the last year in the United States and the impact these laws can have in the global energy transition.
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MIT chemical engineers are speeding up a chemical reaction key to converting carbon dioxide emissions into useful, valuable products. The secret to their success? DNA.
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Cutting carbon emissions from transportation is essential to any strategy addressing climate change. Decarbonizing Urban Mobility, a first-of-its-kind course offered at MIT, introduces students to the many factors involved in addressing this complex challenge.
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What role will blue hydrogen play in decarbonizing the world's energy systems? MITEI Research Scientist Emre Gençer discusses findings from research analyzing the climate impacts of blue hydrogen.
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MIT researchers have demonstrated a new approach to making porous materials called zeolites designed to capture molecules for specific uses, including cleaning up exhaust gases from trucks.
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MIT spinoff Takachar is transforming waste biomass—a major contributor to air pollution—into solid, clean-burning fuel. Winner of the 2021 Earthshot Prize in the clean air category, they estimate their technology could reduce carbon dioxide equivalent emissions by gigatons per year at scale.
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MITEI's IAP course "Leading the Energy Transition" connects students with practitioners and experts to inspire new leadership in the clean energy transition.
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