Green Car Congress

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. California draws more than 20% of its electricity from solar and approximately 7% from wind, with more VRE coming online rapidly. —Drake Hernandez.

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Wind Hydrogen Solar Lithium Ion 170

Green Car Congress

APRIL 25, 2013

Researchers at MIT are proposing using a variation on pumped hydroelectric systems for storage of electricity produced by offshore wind farms. The key to this Ocean Renewable Energy Storage (ORES) system is the placement of 30-meter-diameter hollow concrete spheres on the seafloor under the wind turbines. Earlier post.).

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MIT Energy Storage Renewable Energy 296

Baua Electric

APRIL 4, 2024

It asserts that Alysm Green has a low levelized cost of storage and the ability to support a wide, software-configurable range of discharge durations. Read more: US battery storage smashes deployment records in Q4 2023 To limit power outages and make your home more resilient, consider going solar with a battery storage system.

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Batteries Battery Boston Solar 40

Green Car Congress

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 Future of Natural Gas: An Interdisciplinary MIT Study.

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MIT Coal Gas Emissions 240

Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

—Jesse Jenkins, Princeton University When I entered the field, commercial wind was starting to scale up and the questions were about engineering feasibility. What was the maximum share of wind that we could have in the system without blowing it up—5 percent or 20 percent or 30 percent? So when I went to MIT to do my Ph.D.,

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Clean Cleaning Energy Emissions 91

Green Car Congress

JULY 15, 2020

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. The team’s approach uses a novel and low-cost heat-pump thermal storage system. 8 Rivers Capital. Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2010

Electrofuels approaches will use organisms able to extract energy from other sources, such as solar-derived electricity or hydrogen or earth-abundant metal ions. The aerobic microbe has been engineered at MIT and is capable of converting a variety of organic compounds into oil, from which biodiesel may be produced. Electrofuels.

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Carbon Batteries Battery Li-ion 249