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MIT professor pursuing direct sulfide electrolysis for copper production

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King Assistant Professor of Metallurgy at MIT, is proposing a direct sulfide electrolysis process to simplify copper extraction and eliminate noxious byproducts. Antoine Allanore (2013) “Electrochemical engineering of anodic oxygen evolution in molten oxides,” Electrochimica Acta , Volume 110Pages 587-592 doi: 10.1016/j.electacta.2013.04.095.

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Video Friday: Pedipulate

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This work, by Philip Arm, Mayank Mittal, Hendrik Kolvenbach, and Marco Hutter from ETHZ RSL, will be presented at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation ( ICRA 2024 ) in May in Japan (see events calendar above). Robot built by Boston Dynamics for the DARPA Robotics Challenge in 2013. Software by IHMC Robotics.

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U Chicago, MIT study suggests ongoing use of fossil fuels absent new carbon taxes

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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. F of warming.

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Former Berkeley Dean of Engineering David A. Hodges Dies at 85

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He was largely responsible for moving the International Solid-State Circuits Conference in 1978 from Philadelphia to San Francisco. He was inducted into the Silicon Valley Hall of Fame in 2013. He helped found the IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering. Mulligan Jr. Education Medal and the 1983 IEEE Morris N.

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This Fusion Reactor Is Held Together With Tape

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Gretchen Ertl/CFS/MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center CFS, a startup spun out of decades of research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), is among the leaders of a new wave of fusion-energy projects that have emerged in the past decade, taking advantage of technological advances as well as a surge in private-sector investment.

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UC Berkeley leading project investigating partial fuel stratification and microwave-assisted sparkplugs for LTC engines

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Credit: Saxena and Bedoya (2013). —Saxena and Bedoya (2013). Bedoya (2013) Fundamental phenomena affecting low temperature combustion and HCCI engines, high load limits and strategies for extending these limits, Progress in Energy and Combustion Science , doi: 10.1016/j.pecs.2013.05.002. Click to enlarge. Click to enlarge.

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How Remote Sensing Technologies Increase Food Production

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Mildred Dresselhaus worked at MIT, which she joined in 1960 as a researcher in its Lincoln Laboratory Solid State Division, in Lexington, Mass. One was an MIT electrical engineering student to whom she had given one of her old spectrometers to start his research. They were former students, colleagues, and friends.