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JUNE 26, 2010

Natural gas will play a leading role in reducing greenhouse-gas emissions over the next several decades, largely by replacing older, inefficient coal plants with highly efficient combined-cycle gas generation, according to a major new interim report out from MIT. The first two reports dealt with nuclear power (2003) and coal (2007).

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JULY 18, 2015

Findings by MIT researchers could help advance the commercialization of supercritical water technology for the desulfurization and upgrading of high-sulfur crude oil into high-value, cleaner fuels such as gasoline without using hydrogen—a major change in refining technology that would reduce costs, energy use, and CO 2 emissions.

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APRIL 1, 2014

However, such arguments have been difficult to justify quantitatively, the MIT team notes; quantitative estimates of direct volcanic outgassing are much too small to account for the changes in the carbon cycle. Other proposals suggest secondary effects of the volcanism—such as raging coal fires—as the mechanism.

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JANUARY 26, 2010

The SAB is chaired by John Deutch, Institute Professor at MIT, whose government experience includes service as Director of Energy Research and Undersecretary of the Department of Energy, and Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition and Technology. Earlier post.). —John Deutch.

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JUNE 17, 2013

The new MIT proces converts furfural into GVL via a series of cascading (domino-like) reactions catalyzed by zeolites with Lewis and Brønsted acid sites. GVL could also be useful as a “green” solvent or a building block for creating renewable polymers from sustainable materials. Credit: Bui et al. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.)

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MAY 30, 2010

MIT researchers used modified M13 bacteriophages as templates to assemble noble metal allow nanowires for Li-ion anode materials. An MIT team including Drs. Credit: ACS, Lee et al. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.). The M13 biological toolkit extended its utility for the study on the basic electrochemical property of materials”.

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JUNE 10, 2011

” The MIT report said that natural gas should be seen as a “ bridge ” to a low-carbon regime, rather than as the ultimate long-term solution itself. MIT: The Future of Natural Gas. Separately, the International Energy Agency (IEA) released its own report exploring the potential for a “golden age” of gas. Source: IEA.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2017

MIT researchers have developed a new system that could potentially be used for converting power plant emissions of carbon dioxide into carbon monoxide, and thence into useful fuels for cars, trucks, and planes, as well as into chemical feedstocks for a wide variety of products. Ghoniem’s lab is exploring some of these options.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Graphic / Ruben Juanes, MIT. Researchers at MIT have elucidated how underground methane in frozen regions—e.g., In the hydrate phase, a methane gas molecule is locked inside a crystalline cage of frozen water molecules. Video / Ruben Juanes and Antone Jain, MIT. Click to enlarge.

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APRIL 15, 2017

A team of researchers at MIT has developed a coating that could stop the buildup of hydrate ices that slow or block oil and gas flow. The key to the new system is coating the inside of the pipe with a layer of a material that promotes spreading of a water-barrier layer along the pipe’s inner surface. through the MIT Energy Initiative.

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AUGUST 3, 2014

Rusatom is currently building its first floating nuclear plant, the Akademik Lomonosov ; the second of the vessel’s two reactors was installed in February. Rosatom is building its first floating NPP at the Baltiysky Zavod-Shipbuilding shipyard in St Petersburg. The Chinese delegation came to St. Petersburg and Moscow on 24-29 July.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2013

When methane hydrates are “melted,” or exposed to pressure and temperature conditions outside those where the formations are stable, the solid crystalline lattice turns to liquid water, and the enclosed methane molecules are released as gas. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). MIT will work with the U.S. Earlier post.).

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APRIL 30, 2024

The nonprofit was one of seven winners last year of MIT Solve’s Gender Equity in STEM Challenge. The MIT Solve Gender Equity in STEM Challenge thoroughly vets all applicants—their theories, practices, organizational health, and impact,” Smith says. The initiative supports organizations that work to address gender barriers.

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JUNE 4, 2021

Tesla has officially submitted amended application documents to build electric vehicle battery cells at its German production plant, Giga Berlin. mit Batteriezellenherstellung, Presswerkerweiterung & reduziertem Wasserverbrauch eingereicht. Tesla also outlined a r eduction in planned water consumption at the plant.

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JUNE 27, 2024

Stephen Casper, MIT Of course, before it could be used for these experiments, CriticGPT had to be trained itself using the usual techniques, including RLHF. student at MIT and one of the lead authors on a 2023 preprint paper about the limitations of RLHF.

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JUNE 1, 2012

The Critical Materials Hub builds on the Department’s Critical Materials Strategy report ( earlier post ), which addresses the use of rare earths and other critical materials in clean energy components, products, and processes. A Batteries and Energy Storage Innovation Hub was also announced earlier this year.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2023

Energetics Technology Center will build upon past successes with co-deposition experiments using palladium, lithium, and heavy water together to create an environment in which LENR can occur. Energetics Technology Center. CATHODE (CATHode scintillatOr Detector for Electrochemistry) - $1,500,000. Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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AUGUST 25, 2022

An international team of researchers led by Quanguan Pang at Peking University and Donald Sadoway at MIT reports a bidirectional, rapidly charging aluminum–chalcogen battery operating with a molten-salt electrolyte composed of NaCl–KCl–AlCl 3. —Pang et al.

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MAY 14, 2020

The GE Research team aims to reduce operations and maintenance (O&M) costs by moving from a time- to condition-based predictive maintenance framework, using GE Hitachi’s BWRX-300 boiling water reactor as the reference design. SSR-W is a low overnight-capital plant design, targeting a e build cost.

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APRIL 30, 2010

ARPA-E’s first solicitation awarded $151 million to 37 projects aimed at transformational innovations in energy storage, biofuels, carbon capture, renewable power, building efficiency, vehicles, and other areas. Water will be the primary byproduct. Earlier post.). Earlier post.) per gallon. Harvard, Univ. of Delaware). Michigan State).

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DECEMBER 30, 2024

In 2025, China plans to start building a demonstration thorium-based molten-salt reactor in the Gobi Desert. Molten-salt breeder reactors are the most viable designs for thorium fuel, says Charles Forsberg , a nuclear scientist at MIT. The fuel is designed for heavy-water reactors.

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JULY 15, 2020

Later in the program, teams that move to Phase 2 will focus on building components, unit operations, and prototype systems to reduce technical risks and costs. The post-combustion outlet gas is more easily separated into water and CO 2 to the pipeline, thereby lowering the electricity costs of grids with high levels of VRE.

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MAY 15, 2021

LanzaTech will create transformative technology to enable direct conversion of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) to ethanol, a building block for low carbon intensity fuels and chemicals, at 100% carbon conversion efficiency to products. MIT proposes to reduce or eliminate CO 2 generation during lipid production by (1) engineering Y.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Building this technology is whats motivating the work at my 2D bioelectronics lab , where we study atomically thin materials such as graphene. We started that work with Akinwande of UT Austin in collaboration with Roozbeh Jafari of Texas A&M University (now at MITs Lincoln Laboratory).

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NOVEMBER 28, 2012

decrease water use compared to conventional algae reactors. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) will develop a. deployed remotely, MIT’s reformer could be used for small, remote sources of gas. engineered to use fertilizer and water more efficiently and. convert sunlight, carbon dioxide, and water into fuel.

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JUNE 3, 2016

Researchers at Harvard have created a hybrid water splitting–biosynthetic system based on a biocompatible Earth-abundant inorganic catalyst system to split water into molecular hydrogen and oxygen (H 2 and O 2 ) at low driving voltages. It takes sunlight, water and air—and then look at a tree. and Onie H. Silver, Daniel G.

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AUGUST 29, 2021

A team at MITEI (MIT Energy Initiative) has found that hydrogen-generated electricity can be a cost-competitive option for backing up wind and solar. They also ran the numbers on retrofitting natural gas plants to burn hydrogen as opposed to building entirely new facilities.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2025

This robot is smaller than a credit card, and propels on the water surface using a pair of undulating soft fins. Clone Robotics ] Happy 40th Birthday to the MIT Media Lab! Tufts University Human-Robot Interaction Lab ] Meet the Mind: MIT Professor Andreea Bobu. [ MagicLab ] Thanks, Ni Tao! No, Im not creeped out at all, why?

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NOVEMBER 16, 2010

CleanFUEL USA, a leading supplier of alternative fuel infrastructure and propane engine systems, will build and certify a multi-purpose 8-liter General Motors (GM) propane engine in partnership with Freightliner Custom Chassis Corporation (FCCC), a subsidiary of Daimler Trucks North America.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Engineers at Georgia Tech are the first to study the mechanics of springtails, which leap in the water to avoid predators. The team used the findings to build penny-sized jumping robots. The researchers learned how the tiny hexapods control their jump, self-right in midair, and land on their feet in the blink of an eye.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

This guest article is adapted from the author’s new book From Pessimism to Promise: Lessons from the Global South on Designing Inclusive Tech , published by MIT Press. MIT Press The hunger for AI-based solutions is understandable. Building proper roads or paying your rangers on time is not an innovation, it’s common sense.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2022

MIT ] In this video we demonstrate fully autonomous multi-contact locomotion for our humanoid robot LOLA. Paper ] The ExynAeo autonomously explores a water-logged stope in Alaska while a survey team monitors the robot's real-time progress while warm and dry in their vehicle.

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AUGUST 12, 2021

Commercial trucks already have guard bars on the back to prevent such accidents, so instead of looking to improve trucks, Bayhan decided to build an attachment for cars. The incoming freshman at MIT won $600. He says that the unsustainable cost of building spaceships is what prevents long-term space travel. According to the.

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APRIL 8, 2022

Measuring water quality throughout river networks with precision, speed and at lower cost than traditional methods is now possible with AquaBOT, an aquatic drone developed by Oak Ridge National Laboratory. As the first exploration of EMS for head actuation, we characterized which muscles can be robustly actuated. PneuBots ]. Thanks, Mirek!

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

During the virtual visioning event in December, experts explored solar and renewable energy, carbon sequestration, water management, and geoengineering. One identified priority was research to develop low-cost coatings for buildings and roads to reduce heat effects and increase self-cooling.

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APRIL 20, 2024

In 1965, Larry Roberts, then at the MIT Lincoln Laboratory , connected one computer in Massachusetts to another in California over a telephone line. The next thing I know,” Kahn says, “there’s an RFQ [request for quotation] from ARPA for building a four-node net.” Bob Kahn served on the MIT faculty from 1964 to 1966.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

that produces large quantities of sugar and requires less water. Thermal Fuel: HybriSol Hybrid nanostructures for high-energy-density solar thermal fuels Using innovative nanomaterials, MIT will develop a thermal. heating and water purification. energy storage MIT and Boston College will develop phase change materials.

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