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MIT report finds China’s actions on climate change crucial; argues for global economy-wide greenhouse gas tax

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MAY 29, 2012

A new report from the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change shows the importance of all major nations taking part in global efforts to reduce emissions—and in particular, finds China’s role to be crucial. C change by the end of the century. we’re really being left behind.”.

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Vale joins Boston Metal Series B; developing MOE for emissions-free steel

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FEBRUARY 14, 2021

Boston Metal, an MIT spin-off working to commercialize molten oxide electrolysis (MOE) for emissions-free metals and alloys production, announced that Vale and Energy Impact Partners have joined its Series B fundraising, closely following a $50M close announced in January. Background. Earlier post.) Allanore, A., Sadoway, D.

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MIT study finds fuel economy standards are 6-14 times less cost effective than fuel tax for reducing gasoline use

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FEBRUARY 21, 2013

In a study published in the journal Energy Economics , MIT researchers have found that a fuel economy standard is at least six to fourteen times less cost effective than a fuel tax when targeting an identical reduction in cumulative gasoline use (20% by 2050). Implications for energy and climate policy in the United States Karplus, V.J.,

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

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FEBRUARY 24, 2016

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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MIT team discovers new family of materials with best performance yet for oxygen evolution reaction; implications for fuel cells and Li-air batteries

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

MIT researchers have found a new family of highly active catalyst materials that provides the best performance yet in the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) in electrochemical water-splitting—a key requirement for energy storage and delivery systems such as advanced fuel cells and lithium-air batteries. Source: MIT. Grimaud et al.

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Study finds large-scale ramp-up in biofuel crops could result in warming in some tropical regions, cooling in temperate and polar regions

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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. Biomass Climate Change Fuels Land use Lifecycle analysis'

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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. “We

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Researchers identify new pathways in low-temp oxidation of hydrocarbons; important to fuel combustion, atmospheric chemistry and biochemistry

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

Researchers at MIT, with colleagues at the University of Minnesota, have provided evidence and theoretical rate coefficients for new pathways in the low-temperature oxidation of hydrocarbons. The new analysis is explained in a paper by MIT graduate student Amrit Jalan, chemical engineering professor William Green, and six other researchers.

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How Remote Sensing Technologies Increase Food Production

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JUNE 28, 2023

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.

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New FOX method estimates black carbon emissions from civil aviation ~2.7 times higher than standard estimates

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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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Study finds climate-influencing cirrus clouds form around mineral dust and metallic aerosols; little evidence of black carbon

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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. Cirrus clouds influence global climate, cooling the planet by reflecting incoming solar radiation and warming it by trapping outgoing heat. —Cziczo et al.

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MIT study cautions smaller nations on rushing to develop their natural gas resources; Cyprus as model

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OCTOBER 27, 2013

Based on the interim results of a new study, MIT researchers are warning smaller nations to proceed with caution in pursuing the development of their natural gas resources. —Sergey Paltsev, an author of the study and a principal research scientist at the MIT Energy Initiative. Cyprus offshore hydrocarbon exploration blocks.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

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APRIL 21, 2009

Hybrid Sonata model year 2011, possible PHEV version in 2013. But we want to give them cause to continue to press forward." ( MIT Technology Review ). The potential [of plug-in hybrids] is terrific." ( MIT Technology Review ) 11/30/06 "We want it as much as anybody else, but there are limits right now in terms of technology.

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MIT study suggests carbon tax could help reduce US deficit, lower other taxes, reduce emissions

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AUGUST 27, 2012

The analysis used the MIT US Regional Energy Policy (USREP) model to evaluate the effect of a carbon tax as part of a Federal budget deal.

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MIT report finds China’s actions on climate change crucial; argues for global economy-wide greenhouse gas tax

Vale joins Boston Metal Series B; developing MOE for emissions-free steel

MIT study finds fuel economy standards are 6-14 times less cost effective than fuel tax for reducing gasoline use

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

MIT team discovers new family of materials with best performance yet for oxygen evolution reaction; implications for fuel cells and Li-air batteries

Study finds large-scale ramp-up in biofuel crops could result in warming in some tropical regions, cooling in temperate and polar regions

This Fusion Reactor Is Held Together With Tape

Researchers identify new pathways in low-temp oxidation of hydrocarbons; important to fuel combustion, atmospheric chemistry and biochemistry

How Remote Sensing Technologies Increase Food Production

New FOX method estimates black carbon emissions from civil aviation ~2.7 times higher than standard estimates

Study finds climate-influencing cirrus clouds form around mineral dust and metallic aerosols; little evidence of black carbon

MIT study cautions smaller nations on rushing to develop their natural gas resources; Cyprus as model

How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

MIT study suggests carbon tax could help reduce US deficit, lower other taxes, reduce emissions

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