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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.

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White House announces new commitments in support of Materials Genome Initiative

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University of Wisconsin-Madison invests $5 million+ in new institute for materials. Moreover, the DOE Basic Energy Sciences (BES) Program has an active university and national laboratory research portfolio in Predictive Theory and Modeling, with 19 awards made in FY 2012. Harvard debuts database of 2.3

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MIT and Moscow State collaborating on advanced batteries, metal-air batteries and reversible fuel/electrolysis cells

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Researchers at the Skoltech Center for Electrochemical Energy Storage (CEES), a partnership between the MIT Materials Processing Center and Lomonosov Moscow State University, are focusing on the development of higher capacity batteries. Chiang, MIT colleague W. Advanced Li-ion and multivalent ion batteries.

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How E Ink Developed Full-Color e-Paper

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Its story began a decade earlier, in 1997, at the MIT Media Lab , when it was created by two students, J.D. Electronic-ink researchers had been pursuing color e-paper for years, as had other researchers around the world, in universities, corporate research labs, and startups. This technology was first launched in 2013 for retail ESLs.

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Science Fiction Short: Hijack

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In addition, if too much of a planet-scale computer’s mass is concentrated in one place, “it could implode under its own weight,” says Anders Sandberg , a senior research fellow at the University of Oxford’s Future of Humanity Institute. Quantum simulation of ecosystems is another, says Seth Lloyd , a quantum physicist at MIT.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

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Hybrid Sonata model year 2011, possible PHEV version in 2013. DaimlerChrysler has presented plug-in hybrids in commercial vans that have enough room to store the batteries, but the technology is not quite ripe for cars."Plug-in But we want to give them cause to continue to press forward." ( MIT Technology Review ).

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