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NOVEMBER 23, 2011

Aviation climate change impacts pathway. A new study by researchers at MIT has found that factoring the non-CO 2 combustion emissions and effects into the lifecycle of a Synthetic Paraffinic Kerosene (SPK) aviation fuel can lead to a decrease in the relative environmental merit of the SPK fuel compared to conventional jet fuel.

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AUGUST 25, 2014

The human health benefits associated with improvements in air quality related to the reduction in greenhouse gas emissions improvements can offset 26–1,050% of the cost of US carbon policies, depending upon the type of policy, according to a new study by a team from MIT. Climate Change Emissions Health Policy' Thompson, R.

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OCTOBER 27, 2013

Based on the interim results of a new study, MIT researchers are warning smaller nations to proceed with caution in pursuing the development of their natural gas resources. —Sergey Paltsev, an author of the study and a principal research scientist at the MIT Energy Initiative. Cyprus offshore hydrocarbon exploration blocks.

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AUGUST 27, 2012

The analysis used the MIT US Regional Energy Policy (USREP) model to evaluate the effect of a carbon tax as part of a Federal budget deal. The second win—these cuts in income taxes would spur the economy, encouraging more private spending and hence more employment and investment. —Rausch and Reilly (2012).

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APRIL 3, 2010

A new MIT report outlines a system-oriented set of coordinated policies to help the light-duty vehicle sector reduce petroleum-based consumption and its accompanying global warming emissions. The study was supported in part by the MIT Energy Initiative. Tags: Climate Change Emissions Fuel Efficiency Policy. Heywood et al.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Graphic / Ruben Juanes, MIT. Researchers at MIT have elucidated how underground methane in frozen regions—e.g., Some scientists have associated the release, both gradual and fast, of subsurface ocean methane with climate change of the past and future. Video / Ruben Juanes and Antone Jain, MIT. Click to enlarge.

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OCTOBER 25, 2009

Normalized well-to-wake GHG emissions for low-, baseline- and high-emission cases for jet fuel pathways under different land use change scenarios. It is the result of research and analysis performed under the Partnership for AiR Transportation Noise and Emission Reduction (PARTNER) at MIT and RAND. From Hileman et al. Hileman, David S.

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JUNE 10, 2011

The new report, part of the World Energy Outlook (WEO) 2011 series, examines the key factors that could result in a more prominent role for natural gas in the global energy mix, and the implications for other fuels, energy security and climate change. MIT: The Future of Natural Gas. The Future of Natural Gas (MIT).

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

MIT researchers have found a new family of highly active catalyst materials that provides the best performance yet in the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) in electrochemical water-splitting—a key requirement for energy storage and delivery systems such as advanced fuel cells and lithium-air batteries. Source: MIT. Grimaud et al.

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MARCH 9, 2021

Fast charging is incredibly stressful and damaging to batteries, and solving this problem is key to expanding the nation’s fleet of electric vehicles as part of the overall strategy for fighting climate change. Hongbo Zhao/MIT). —Will Chueh. This uneven pattern stresses the battery and reduces its lifetime.

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AUGUST 29, 2011

Researchers at MIT have developed a new detailed air-quality model to simulate the effects of physical, chemical, and meteorological processing of highly reactive trace species in urban areas.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2019

The report is the culmination of MITEI’s three-year Mobility of the Future study, which is part of MIT’s Plan for Action on Climate Change. Armstrong, a professor of chemical engineering at MIT. The study team of MIT faculty, researchers, and students focused on five main. —MITEI Director Robert C.

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JUNE 20, 2009

The MIT Energy Initiative has released a new report on reducing carbon dioxide emissions from existing coal plants. Professor Ernest Moniz, director of the MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI). Bilateral approaches on climate change should be encouraged and supported as a matter of US policy.

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OCTOBER 22, 2019

ExxonMobil said extended its support of the MIT Energy Initiative’s (MITEI) low-carbon energy research and education mission by renewing its status as a founding member for another five years. ExxonMobil first signed on as a member of the initiative in 2014.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Since its launch in April 2021 , the Engineering Research Visioning Alliance has convened a diverse set of experts to explore three areas in which fundamental research could have the most impact: climate change; the nexus of biology and engineering; and securing critical infrastructure against hackers.

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DECEMBER 3, 2010

Global infrastructure company Ferrovial and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) just signed a five-year agreement, with Ferrovial joining the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Energy Initiative (MITEI) to support a range of research projects on transforming critical urban infrastructures of the future. Ferrovial and MIT.

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APRIL 11, 2017

As part of MIT’s five-year Plan for Action on Climate Change, the MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI) has launched a major study—“Mobility of the Future”—to explore how consumers and markets will respond to potentially disruptive technologies, business models, and government policies.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2016

A paper by a team from the University of Chicago and MIT suggests that technology-driven cost reductions in fossil fuels will lead to the continued use of fossil fuels—oil, gas, and coal—unless governments pass new taxes on carbon emissions. Their analysis is published in the Journal of Economic Perspectives.

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DECEMBER 22, 2011

If the US is to avoid disastrous environmental consequences as a result of climate change then it must make fundamental changes to its energy innovation system. That’s the verdict of a three-year study conducted by researchers at MIT.

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MAY 8, 2013

Global land-use changes caused by a major ramp-up in biofuel crops—enough to meet about 10% of the world’s energy needs—could make some regions warmer, according to a new integrated modeling study by researchers from MIT and the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole. —Willow Hallgren, lead author. Kicklighter, A.

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OCTOBER 24, 2009

A separate paper published online in Science Express by researchers from the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole and MIT concludes that indirect land use change associated with global biofuels programs will be responsible for substantially more carbon loss (up to twice as much) than direct land use. issue of the journal Science.

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DECEMBER 17, 2009

Researchers at MIT have developed a new bicycle rear wheel—the Copenhagen Wheel —that can capture energy from braking and deliver the power back to provide a boost. A close-up of the Copenhagen Wheel, from MIT’s SENSEable City Lab. Click to enlarge. Everything is controlled by your feet,” Ratti explains.

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MAY 10, 2013

An interdisciplinary team from MIT, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and elsewhere has identified the major particles upon which cirrus clouds form. A paper on their results is published in the journal Science.

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APRIL 11, 2014

As these chemicals were phased-down due to international agreements limiting their use, they were replaced by other synthesized gases that can still be harmful to the ozone layer—and are also greenhouse gases that contribute to climate change.

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APRIL 12, 2012

Without significant additional policy interventions to induce market penetration of breakthrough passenger car and aircraft technologies, the overall European (EU27) greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reduction goals for 2050 will be difficult to meet, according to a new study by researchers from the University of Cambridge, Stanford University and MIT.

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JUNE 26, 2022

Such rapid growth demands detailed understanding of the potential impact on the protective stratospheric ozone (O 3 ) layer and climate. —Ryan et al.

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DECEMBER 13, 2018

A consortium of researchers led by Caltech, in partnership with MIT; the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS); and JPL, which Caltech manages for NASA, seeks to build a new type of climate model that is designed to provide more precise and actionable predictions. —Raffaele Ferrari, Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Oceanography at MIT.

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JULY 10, 2009

The researchers concluded that models of climate change may be underestimating how much water is likely to run off the land and back into the sea as atmospheric chemistry changes. Either way, water resource managers need more accurate runoff estimates to plan better for the changes. Credit: NASA. Click to enlarge.

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MARCH 3, 2021

Published in The RAND Journal of Economics and funded by the California Air Resources Board, Archsmith collaborated with Kenneth Gillingham of Yale University, Christopher Knittel of MIT, and David Rapson of the UC Davis Department of Economics to examine vehicle purchasing behaviors using California-based data.

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MAY 17, 2022

A Portable Desalination System Makes Water Potable—Without a Filter Payal Dhar (Freelance Blogger) MIT researchers have developed a prototype of a suitcase-size device that can turn seawater into safe drinking water. With climate change exacerbating water scarcity globally, seawater desalination is stepping in to fill the void.

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DECEMBER 12, 2016

MIT and NASA engineers earlier proposed the D8 Series as one future aircraft design concept that uses boundary layer ingestion. Hall (2016) “ Boundary Layer Ingestion Propulsion – Benefit, Challenges, and Opportunities ” 5 th UTIAS International Workshop on Aviation and Climate Change.

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DECEMBER 9, 2022

In a quest to ease some of said burdens, researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), Autodesk Research, and Texas A&M University came up with a method to automatically assemble products that’s accurate, efficient and generalizable to a wide range of complex real-world assemblies.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Last month, ExxonMobil announced that it would invest $15 million to the University of Texas at Austin Energy Institute to pursue technologies to help meet growing energy demand while reducing environmental impacts and the risk of climate change.

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JUNE 3, 2016

Researchers also used the system to create PHB, a bio-plastic precursor, a process first demonstrated by MIT professor Anthony Sinskey. The Harvard University Climate Change Solutions Fund is supporting ongoing research into the "bionic leaf" platform. This is the genius of Dan.

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AUGUST 17, 2021

Addressing climate change requires not only a clean electrical grid, but also a clean fuel to reduce emissions from industrial heat, long-haul heavy transportation, and long-duration energy storage. John Deutch, an emeritus Institute Professor at MIT.

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AUGUST 26, 2013

Using an alternative approach to determine the amount of black carbon (BC) emissions from civil aviation, researchers from the University of Cambridge, MIT, and Forschungszentrum Jülich have estimated that in 2005, total BC emissions from this sector were 16.9 Credit: ACS, Stettler et al. Click to enlarge.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

An analysis by a team from the University of California, Davis, MIT and Yale suggests that households that buy a fuel-efficient vehicle tend to compensate for that purchase by buying a bigger, more powerful second vehicle. A central objective of my research as an environmental economist is to identify ways to fight global climate change.

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