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JUNE 26, 2022

This demand stems from significantly reduced launch costs driven by commercialization, increased reliance on satellite technologies for global positioning systems, surveillance and broadband internet, and postulated space resource extraction and militarization. —Ryan et al. 1 growth in 2019 launches and re-entries. Marais, E.

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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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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. Summary of symposium report.

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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. The focus of the work was on alternative jet fuels that could be available commercially in the next decade using primarily North American resources. From Hileman et al. Click to enlarge.

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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. Hallgren, W.,

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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. Majumdar et al. 2021.07.007.

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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 Barrett (2013) Global Civil Aviation Black Carbon Emissions.

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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. —Ronald Prinn. Rigby, M., 41, doi: 10.1002/2013GL059099.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2021

A team at MIT has analyzed what has accounted for the extraordinary savings and found that by far the biggest single factor was work on research and development, particularly in chemistry and materials science. The new approach allows us to potentially be a bit more intentional about where we make those investments of time and money.

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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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JULY 10, 2009

Through a recent modeling experiment, a team of NASA-funded researchers have found that future concentrations of carbon dioxide and ozone in the atmosphere and of nitrogen in the soil are likely to have an important but overlooked effect on the cycling of water from sky to land to waterways. Credit: NASA. Click to enlarge. Click to enlarge.

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JUNE 3, 2016

In principle, we have a platform that can make any downstream carbon-based molecule. 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.

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APRIL 21, 2009

The discovery came when MIT researchers Byoungwoo Kang and Gerbrand Ceder found out how to get a common lithium compound to release and take up lithium ions in a matter of seconds. Sign Up for the Green Options Newsletter Follow us on Twitter Subscribe via email Resources Write for Gas 2.0 Like this post? by RSS or sign up by email.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Thousands of Washington insiders and climate activists have had a hand in these legislative breakthroughs. Among the most articulate and almost certainly the wonkiest is Jesse Jenkins , a professor of engineering at Princeton University, where he heads the ZERO Lab—the Zero-carbon Energy systems Research and Optimization Laboratory, that is.

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OCTOBER 24, 2009

Thirteen scientists and land use experts conclude in a new paper that an important but fixable error in legal accounting rules used to measure compliance with carbon limits for bioenergy could undermine efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by encouraging deforestation. Their paper is published in the 23 Oct. Accounting rules.

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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. Cirrus clouds typically form at altitudes higher than most commercial planes fly. —Karl Froyd.

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MAY 20, 2009

A new comprehensive MIT study of the probabilistic projections of climate change in this century found that absent aggressive intervention, warming will likely be about twice as severe as previously estimated by the MIT model six years ago. C by 2100, with a 90% probability range of 3.5 Stone, Chris E. Kicklighter, B.

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APRIL 21, 2009

Our PRIUS+ Project Photos PHEV Resources Global Warming Take Action News and Events Contact Us How Carmakers are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity If you ask, "have major auto-makers come around on PHEVs?", But we want to give them cause to continue to press forward." ( MIT Technology Review ). GM Press Release ).

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APRIL 16, 2009

Earlier this month, researchers from MIT said they had developed a process that within three years could lead to electric car batteries able to recharge in as little as five minutes. While the Model S is in the concept phase of development, rapid charging represents a very real focus for battery developers and electric car makers.

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OCTOBER 30, 2017

A new study by a team from the University of Pennsylvania and MIT suggests it will be easier for cities to reduce CO 2 emissions coming from residential energy use rather than from local transportation. All told, housing accounts for about 20% of US carbon dioxide emissions, according to the US Energy Information Administration.

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AUGUST 27, 2012

A new report from MIT’s Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change suggests that a tax on carbon emissions could help raise the money needed to reduce the US deficit, while improving the economy, lowering other taxes and reducing emissions. They found that the tax would raise $1.5 —Rausch and Reilly (2012).

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