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Total has signed a research agreement with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to develop new stationary batteries that are designed to enable the storage of solar power. This agreement valued at $4 million over five years is part of the MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI), which Total joined as a member in November 2008.

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DECEMBER 3, 2009

MIT researchers are proposing a novel electricity generation process using natural gas and solid oxide fuel cells at high electrical efficiency (74%HHV) with zero atmospheric emissions. The research was partly funded from the BP-MIT Conversion Research Program. A paper on their work is in press in the Journal of Power Sources.

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MAY 30, 2010

MIT researchers used modified M13 bacteriophages as templates to assemble noble metal allow nanowires for Li-ion anode materials. An MIT team including Drs. Credit: ACS, Lee et al. Click to enlarge. A paper on their work was published 27 May in the ACS journal Nano Letters. Earlier post.) Earlier post.).

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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. Heywood et al., John Heywood, professor of mechanical engineering, emeritus.

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” 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. Change in cumulative energy-related CO 2 emissions by sector and fuel in the IEA GAS Scenario relative to the New Policies Scenario, 2009-2035. Source: IEA. Earlier post.)

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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). Once built, coal plants are, in most cases, the cheapest source of base load power generation and will not be phased out absent very high CO 2 prices.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Graphic / Ruben Juanes, MIT. Researchers at MIT have elucidated how underground methane in frozen regions—e.g., Video / Ruben Juanes and Antone Jain, MIT. Juanes (2009), Preferential Mode of gas invasion in sediments: Grain-scale mechanistic model of coupled multiphase fluid flow and sediment mechanics, J. Gardner, J.

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MARCH 12, 2009

Source: Kang and Ceder (2009). Researchers at MIT have developed a lithium iron phosphate electrode material that achieves ultra-high discharge rates comparable to those of supercapacitors, while maintaining the high energy density characteristic of lithium-ion batteries. Kang and Ceder (2009). Click to enlarge.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2012

In 2009, ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company (EMRE) launched what it called a “ significant ” new program to research and develop advanced biofuels from photosynthetic algae that are compatible with today’s gasoline and diesel fuels. —Vasudevan et al.

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OCTOBER 25, 2009

The MIT/RAND authors made a number of recommendations, based on their study: Measures designed to lower GHG emissions should be broad and place a price on GHG emissions, allowing economically efficient choices to be made across multiple sectors. Waitz (2009) Near-Term Feasibility of Alternative Jet Fuels (TR-554-FAA). Ortiz, James T.

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The technology has been successfully demonstrated on buses at the KAIST campus since 2009. Suh, ex-President of KAIST, Cross Professor Emeritus of MIT, former director of industrial firms and universities, and the recipient of the 2009 ASME Medal; Dr. Byiung Jun (“BJ”) Park, former Chairman of MTL, Inc.; Earlier post.).

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APRIL 29, 2009

On 20 April, the opening day of the SAE 2009 World Congress, the AVL Technology Leadership Theater presented a forum on “Green Mobility—The Long View”. the session counted among its panelists: Professor John Heywood, Sun Jae Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Director of the Sloan Auto Laboratory at MIT. Earlier post.)].

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billion in private sector follow-on funding since the agency’s founding in 2009. Featured keynote speakers include Duke Energy CEO Lynn Good, MIT President L. The Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) announced that a group of 74 project teams has attracted more than $1.8

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DECEMBER 27, 2022

Joel Moses MIT professor emeritus Life Fellow, 80; died 29 May Moses taught electrical engineering and computer science at MIT for 50 years. He probably was best known for developing Macsyma , MIT Project MAC’s symbolic manipulator. in computer science in 1967 from MIT. Moses earned a Ph.D. After earning a Ph.D.

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Russia’s OKBM Afrikantov completed the assembly of the two reactors for the Akademik Lomonosov, in 2009. Using established designs minimizes technological risks, says Buongiorno, an associate professor of nuclear science and engineering (NSE) at MIT. RP flow diagram for the KLT-40S. Click to enlarge. Safety levels in the Lomonosov.

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MAY 20, 2010

Since 2009, Runkle serves as CEO of EcoMotors. He earned a bachelor’s and master’s degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Michigan, as well as an MBA from MIT. I’m enthusiastic to join Transonic’s team, its mission to offer such a valuable product proposition and its talented staff dedicated to a lower carbon future.

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DECEMBER 21, 2011

GMZ’s material, a nanostructured bismuth antimony telluride, was developed by researchers at Boston College and MIT. With the new funding, GMZ will expand its engineering and go-to-market capabilities as the company moves into production of its thermoelectric technologies. —Aaron Bent, CEO of GMZ Energy.

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AUGUST 1, 2009

Panasonic Corporation is supporting the Solar Electric Vehicle Team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT SEVT), in its participation of the Global Green Challenge (GGC), to be held in October 2009 in Australia. Under the sponsorship agreement, Panasonic is providing the MIT SEVT team with its 2.9

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OCTOBER 19, 2009

A team of researchers from MIT, the Japan Institute of Science and Technology, and Brookhaven National Laboratory have found that changing the surface texture of platinum used in a methanol fuel cell electrode—specifically, creating nano surface steps instead of using a smooth surface—can significantly increase the catalytic activity.

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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. 3 David Herron said on March 16th, 2009 at 12:31 am Fast recharge will require huge power levels. Like this post? by RSS or sign up by email.

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The research into the sensor technology started in 2009 and it has received $500,000 in funding from the Ministry of Education Tier 1 research grant and the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART) Proof-of-Concept grant.

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founded in 2009 out of MIT ( earlier post ), is an emerging technology company headquartered working to develop the first fully active, regenerative suspension for the automotive, trucking, mass transit, and defense industries. Levant Power Corp.,

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APRIL 26, 2009

Proposed by John Heywood and colleagues at MIT in 2005, the basic premise of E85 boosting is that ethanol (or other lower alcohols) suppresses knock due to the large evaporative cooling effect it has on the air-fuel mixture when injected directly into the cylinder, supplemented by ethanol’s inherent high octane number. Earlier post.)

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He served in the Obama administration as the Founding Director of the US Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) (2009–2012), as the Acting Undersecretary for Energy (2011–2012), and as the Vice Chair of the Secretary of Energy Advisory Board (2014–2017). John Deutch, an emeritus Institute Professor at MIT.

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DECEMBER 9, 2009

The British vehicle recorded speeds more than 148 mph (238 km/h) in August 2009, which broke the previous unofficial record of 145 mph (233 km/h) set in 1985 by Bob Barber, and the official FIA record of 127 mph (204 km/h) set in 1906 by Fred Marriott, an American driving a Stanley Steamer at Daytona Beach.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2009

2009) Click to enlarge. An aggressive global cellulosic biofuels program could contribute substantially to future global-scale energy needs, but could have significant unintended environmental consequences, according to a recent report by the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change. Melillo et al. Melillo et al.

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JULY 22, 2023

STEM at the root Ganguly says she was inspired to help reform STEM education when she was a graduate student at MIT. After earning a master’s degree in electrical engineering from MIT in 2009, she went on to earn a master’s degree in education in 2011 from Boston University.

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in 1952 in solid-state physics, he joined MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory , in Lexington, Mass., His ability to cross disciplines started at MIT. “At After Goodenough earned a Ph.D. as a researcher. He was part of a team there that developed the world’s first random-access magnetic memory.

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He earned a bachelor’s degree in electrical and computer engineering in 2009 and a master’s degree in the same subject the following year. In 2018, MIT Technology Review named Suri one of its 35 Innovators Under 35 for his work on neuromorphic computing. Running Cyran has been like [pursuing a] mini-MBA,” he says.

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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. Goetzberger, who held more than 30 patents in Europe, was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award from the European Patent Office in 2009. in physical chemistry from Princeton.

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Gasteiger of MIT and M. Michel Lefèvre, Eric Proietti, Frédéric Jaouen, and Jean-Pol Dodelet (2009) Iron-Based Catalysts with Improved Oxygen Reduction Activity in Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells. Gasteiger and Nenad M Markovic (2009) Just a Dream—or Future Reality? Lefèvre et al. Click to enlarge. Lefèvre et al. Lefèvre et al.

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and Springboro, Ohio, was acquired by SB LiMotive in 2009. The focus of the project is to produce high-energy density cells and packs for electric vehicle applications to increase the current state-of-the-art battery-pack density by 50% in a three-year period. Cobasys, with two sites in Orion, Mich.,

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MAY 20, 2022

Oak Ridge was a very scientifically oriented community,” especially during World War II, Larson said in a 2009 oral history conducted by the IEEE History Center. He earned a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering in 1960 from MIT. where the plutonium and the uranium enrichment plants were located.

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Source: DOE Hydrogen Program & Vehicle Technologies Program, 2009 Merit Review. Honda’s Clarity, with 350 bar compressed gas storage is achieving a 280-mile range, and the 2009 Toyota FCHV using 700 bar storage has a state range of 480 miles (on the 10-15 cycle). Earlier post.). —Letter to Secretary Chu.

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JULY 10, 2009

Felzer and colleagues from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge and the Marine Biology Laboratory in Woods Hole, Mass., co-author Adam Schlosser of the Center for Global Change Science at MIT. Either way, water resource managers need more accurate runoff estimates to plan better for the changes. Cronin, J.

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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 Sokolov et al. Stone, Chris E. Kicklighter, B.

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Advances in magnet technology have enabled researchers at MIT to propose a new design for a practical compact tokamak fusion reactor that might be realized in as little as a decade: the ARC (affordable, robust, compact) reactor. Begun in 2009, the project represents a breakthrough in superconducting magnet technology on many fronts.

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