Europe, MIT and Wind

MIT study finds real-world NOx from diesels cars in Europe greatly exceeds laboratory levels; transboundary emissions cause 70% of health impacts

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2018

A new study by MIT researchers, published this month in Atmospheric Environment , finds that in Europe, 10 major auto manufacturers produced diesel cars, sold between 2000 and 2015, that generate up to 16 times more NO x emissions on the road than in regulatory tests—a level that exceeds European limits but does not violate any EU laws.

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MIT Diesel Europe Emissions

MIT Report Finds Natural Gas Has Significant Potential to Displace Coal, Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions; Role in Transportation More Limited

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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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MIT Coal Gas Emissions

Separate MIT, IEA reports both outline major expansion in role of natural gas; caution on climate benefits

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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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MIT Gas Climate Gas-Electric

The Complex Calculus of Clean Energy and Zero Emissions

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

This Fusion Reactor Is Held Together With Tape

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JULY 15, 2023

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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Fusion Molten Salt MIT Building

The Vacuum Tube’s Forgotten Rival

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MARCH 27, 2022

A second wire also wrapped around the core forms a control winding. The control winding includes many turns of wire, so by passing a relatively small direct current through it, the iron core can be forced into or out of saturation. After winding, the module was annealed in hydrogen at 1,100 °C for 2 hours and then rapidly cooled.

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Wind DC United States Supplies

How EVs Are Reducing Carbon (CO2) Emissions

Blink Charging

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

As one MIT report found, on average, “a fully electric vehicle emits about 25 percent less carbon than a comparable hybrid car.” Finally, technology is also making EVs more eco-friendly, and as our energy grid switches to use more renewable sources like wind and solar power, EVs become even better for the environment.

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Carbon Emissions CO2 Gasoline-Electric

Morris Tanenbaum, Inventor of the Silicon Microchip, Dies at 94

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MAY 12, 2023

A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , he also was a Fellow of the American Physical Society and a member of the MIT board of trustees. Today solar is the third largest renewable-electricity sector behind hydropower and wind. He retired five years later as AT&T’s vice chairman and chief financial officer.

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Solar Missouri Universal Pennsylvania

MIT Battery Breakthrough Could Revolutionize Electric Cars : Gas 2.0

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

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. 7 Uncle B said on April 14th, 2009 at 10:17 am This battery is going to absorb peaks from wind-turbines, hitherto dumped to prevent damage to lines!

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MIT Gas-Electric Gas Electric Cars

Robert Kahn: The Great Interconnector

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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. Kahn postponed his planned return to MIT and continued to work on expanding this network. Bob Kahn served on the MIT faculty from 1964 to 1966. But Roberts asked Kahn to stay.

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New York MIT Universal New York City

The Long View from SAE 2009 World Congress

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APRIL 29, 2009

the session counted among its panelists: Professor John Heywood, Sun Jae Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Director of the Sloan Auto Laboratory at MIT. Quality urban planning isn’t limited to wealthy cities in Western Europe. Organized by Shane Chang at Honda Research Institute USA Inc., The city will have two transit levels.

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ChargePoint’s roadmap: EV charging 80% home/work, 20% public/fast, “virtual batteries” for utilities

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APRIL 12, 2017

ChargePoint, the world’s largest electric vehicle (EV) charging network, is rapidly expanding both its technical capability with the introduction of its modular Express Plus EV fast-charging platform (up to 400 kW) ( earlier post ) as well as its geographic reach with its expansion into Europe ( earlier post ).

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Charging Batteries Battery Grid

Ford Making Aggressive Push With EcoBoost and Technologies Such as Ti-VCT for Improved Fuel Economy; Roadmap for Future Generations of EcoBoost Highlights Role as Company Strategy as Well as Product

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DECEMBER 20, 2009

I4 engine in two power levels for worldwide vehicle programs (currently announced as SUVs and crossovers in North America, larger Ford vehicles in Europe, and on the Ford Falcon in Australia) before a further migration into a small 1.6L The next application will be offered as a 2.0L I4 initially for the C-MAX in European markets.

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Fuel Economy Economy Ford Downsizing

GM Says Chevrolet Volt Won't 'Pay the Rent' | Autopia from Wired.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

It will appear in Europe next year as the Opel Ampera and in Australia as the Holden Volt in 2012. One wonders if the recent headway at MIT in building lithium ion cells using ?virus? If our country is going to spend money like a drunk sailor we should have spent it on building renewable energy power plants like Wind and Geothermal.

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Volt GM Chevrolet EV1

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MIT study finds real-world NOx from diesels cars in Europe greatly exceeds laboratory levels; transboundary emissions cause 70% of health impacts

MIT Report Finds Natural Gas Has Significant Potential to Displace Coal, Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions; Role in Transportation More Limited

Separate MIT, IEA reports both outline major expansion in role of natural gas; caution on climate benefits

The Complex Calculus of Clean Energy and Zero Emissions

This Fusion Reactor Is Held Together With Tape

The Vacuum Tube’s Forgotten Rival

How EVs Are Reducing Carbon (CO2) Emissions

Morris Tanenbaum, Inventor of the Silicon Microchip, Dies at 94

MIT Battery Breakthrough Could Revolutionize Electric Cars : Gas 2.0

Robert Kahn: The Great Interconnector

The Long View from SAE 2009 World Congress

ChargePoint’s roadmap: EV charging 80% home/work, 20% public/fast, “virtual batteries” for utilities

Ford Making Aggressive Push With EcoBoost and Technologies Such as Ti-VCT for Improved Fuel Economy; Roadmap for Future Generations of EcoBoost Highlights Role as Company Strategy as Well as Product

GM Says Chevrolet Volt Won't 'Pay the Rent' | Autopia from Wired.com

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