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The human health benefits associated with improvements in air quality related to the reduction in greenhouse gas emissions improvements can offset 26–1,050% of the cost of US carbon policies, depending upon the type of policy, according to a new study by a team from MIT. 14, 969–978 doi: 10.5194/acp-14-969-2014. Saari & Noelle E.

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The MIT-based team behind nuTonomy has robotic technology with funding from NASA and DARPA. The pilot, which took place in Singapore in 2014, enabled more than 500 Singaporean citizens to experience an Uber-like service to request driverless transportation throughout the Jurong Lake Gardens, a central public park.

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JUNE 20, 2014

Researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed materials with the same weight and density as aerogel (“frozen smoke”) but with 10,000 times more stiffness using additive micro-manufacturing processes. Source: LLNL Click to enlarge. Zheng et al. Click to enlarge.

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JANUARY 9, 2014

Conventional layered lithium and transition metal cathode material (top) and the new disordered material studied by researchers at MIT (bottom) as seen through a scanning tunneling electron microscope. Inset images show diagrams of the different structures in these materials. (In Image courtesy of the researchers. Click to enlarge.

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JUNE 9, 2014

New observations by researchers at MIT have revealed the inner workings of a lithium iron phosphate (LiFePO 4 ) cathode—a material widely used in lithium-ion batteries. The new findings, published in a paper in the ACS journal Nano Letters , explain the unexpectedly high power and long cycle life of such batteries, the researchers say.

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OCTOBER 17, 2014

In May, researchers at MIT and Stanford University reported the development of new battery technology for the conversion of low-temperature waste heat into electricity in cases where temperature differences are less than 100 ?Celsius. —Yang et al. Batteries Waste Heat Recovery'

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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.

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JUNE 3, 2014

Researchers at MIT have developed a method to produce inexpensive catalysts that can replace platinum catalysts in renewable energy technologies such as fuel cells. 2014), “Engineering Non-sintered, Metal-Terminated Tungsten Carbide Nanoparticles for Catalysis,” Angew. —Sean Hunt, lead author. Nimmanwudipong, T.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

Researchers at MIT have improved a proposed liquid battery system that could enable renewable energy sources to compete with conventional power plants. Sadoway (2014) “Lithium–antimony–lead liquid metal battery for grid-level energy storage” Nature doi: 10.1038/nature13700. Earlier post.). Burke, Dane A. Boysen, David J. Batteries'

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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.

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JULY 18, 2015

Findings by MIT researchers could help advance the commercialization of supercritical water technology for the desulfurization and upgrading of high-sulfur crude oil into high-value, cleaner fuels such as gasoline without using hydrogen—a major change in refining technology that would reduce costs, energy use, and CO 2 emissions.

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MAY 29, 2014

In a companion study to an SAE paper presented in April ( earlier post ), researchers at MIT have quantified the net economic and CO 2 emissions benefit that could be obtained by utilizing 98 RON gasoline in light-duty vehicles, based on reasonable assumptions for possible refinery changes and the evolution of the LDV fleet. billion in 2040.

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From 2008 until her retirement in 2014, she served as Vice President of Operations at Apple, where she oversaw the launch of the iPad and manufacturing of the Mac desktop and accessories product lines. Dr. Jennifer Rupp, Professor of Electrochemical Materials, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and TU Munich (TUM).

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OCTOBER 22, 2013

A123 Venture Technologies, a Massachusetts-based technology incubator, will collaborate with MIT startup SolidEnergy. The partnership combines SolidEnergy’s Solid Polymer Ionic Liquid (SPIL) electrolyte—originally developed at MIT—with the mature cell design and prototyping capabilities of A123. Source: SolidEnergy.

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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.

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AUGUST 3, 2014

Such a design, as described at the Small Modular Reactors Symposium by MIT professors Jacopo Buongiorno, Michael Golay, and Neil Todreas, along with others from MIT, the University of Wisconsin, and Chicago Bridge and Iron, could ride out tsunamis. Nuclear Ports and Marine Power Generation'

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JUNE 19, 2014

Researchers at MIT and King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM) in Saudi Arabia have devised a robotic system that can detect leaks in gas, oil and water pipelines at a rapid pace and with high accuracy by sensing a large pressure change at leak locations. Top ]: Solid model side view of Leak Detector. Chatzigeorgiou, D.;

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In a 2014 paper in Science , however, Dr. Ceder and his colleagues outlined the potential for disordered materials. Conventionally, electrochemists have looked to well-ordered close-packed oxides for cathode materials, especially layered rocksalt-type lithium–transition metal oxides (Li-TM oxides) and ordered spinels. —Lee et al.

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JANUARY 31, 2015

SolidEnergy , an MIT spin-out commercializing solid electrolyte technology enabling the use of lithium metal anodes for high energy density rechargeable batteries ( earlier post ), says that in 2016, it and its battery manufacturing partners will release a 2 Ah commercial battery for the smartphone and wearable market. Source: SolidEnergy.

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JUNE 17, 2022

In recent social media posts, Germany-based Tesla owner Hansjörg Gemmingen revealed that his Model S P85, which he purchased in 2014 second-hand, had successfully reached the 1 million mile mark. He made the switch to a used Model S in 2014 for health and comfort reasons, and Gemmingen has been racking up the miles ever since.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2014

Analyzing the data using a model developed at MIT, the researchers discovered that only a small percentage of nanoparticles absorbed and released ions during charging, even when it was done very rapidly. 2014) Nature Materials doi: 10.1038/NMAT4084. —Yiyang Li, lead author. Resources. Chueh et al. Batteries'

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JANUARY 20, 2016

Based in Cambridge, MA, Pellion was founded by a team of MIT researchers. Gmitter, Ivgeni Shterenberg, Hyun Deog Yoo, Nir Pour and Doron Aurbach (2014) “Novel, electrolyte solutions comprising fully inorganic salts with high anodic stability for rechargeable magnesium batteries”. Doe, Ruoban Han, Jaehee Hwang, Andrew J.

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APRIL 30, 2014

In a 2014 progress report , Ambri noted it has operated more than 1,000 cells in the lab and demonstrated that the cells can run for more than 1,000 cycles at full depth of discharge with negligible fade rate (less than 0.0002% per cycle). The whole device is kept at a high temperature, around 700 °C, so that the layers remain molten.

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MAY 31, 2017

First announced in 2014, CSRC Next ( earlier post ) will direct $35 million through 2021 towards research designed to support a safe transition to the future of mobility. Another, with MIT, modelled in-vehicle voice command systems and driver behavior. —Chuck Gulash, Director of CSRC.

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These reservations were outlined by the MIT Technology Review in 2014, with the publication stating that “electric car sales so far come nowhere close to justifying” Giga Nevada’s construction. . This, at least for skeptics, made a capital-intensive facility such as Giga Nevada very risky. .

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MAY 13, 2022

When the iPhone 6 came out in September 2014, there were reports that the larger model was bending when people put it in their rear pockets and sat on it,” Rerecich recalls. For me, that was [a] chip design course at MIT—but I had also taken a course related to biomedical engineering because I thought I wanted to go into that.

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AUGUST 28, 2013

Nissan said that its engineers have been carrying out intensive research on the technology for years, alongside teams from universities including MIT, Stanford, Oxford, Carnegie Mellon and the University of Tokyo. Nissan says that its autonomous driving will be achieved at realistic prices for consumers.

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AUGUST 4, 2022

He was the 2014–2015 chair of the IEEE Seoul Section. Markus Zahn Professor emeritus at MIT Life Fellow, 75; died 13 March Zahn was a professor of electrical engineering for 50 years. He volunteered on projects in Guatemala and Honduras. Zahn, who was granted more than 20 U.S.

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After graduating in 1985 with bachelor’s degrees in physics and mathematics, she headed to MIT as a graduate student with the goal of pursuing a career in medical engineering. Their CPAP machine was commercialized in 2014 and is now being used in more than 35 countries. Once I discovered it, I found that I loved it.”

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APRIL 24, 2014

without higher octane fuel, but with other projected vehicle and powertrain technology improvements), according to a new analysis by a team at MIT. However, notes the MIT team, the engine and measurement conditions of the RON and MON tests do not represent real world operating conditions. reduction by then in the baseline case (i.e.,

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APRIL 12, 2015

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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AUGUST 17, 2021

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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The work was a collaboration between scientists at UC Berkeley, Berkeley Lab, Argonne National Lab, MIT and UC Santa Cruz. … In this work, we demonstrate that high capacity (>300 mAh g -1 ) and energy density (about 1,000 Wh kg ?1 —Lee et al.

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APRIL 11, 2014

While HFCs are currently not a major driver of climate change compared to carbon dioxide or even other SGHGs, Ronald Prinn, co-director of the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change and a co-author of the study, points out that if unabated they may contribute significantly to future warming. —Ronald Prinn.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

TEMA), made the announcement at Toyota’s 2014 Advanced Safety Seminar in Ann Arbor, Mich. Osamu Nagata, President and CEO of Toyota Motor Engineering and Manufacturing North America, Inc. CSRC’s newly expanded mission recognizes that the emergence of advanced technologies is radically reshaping the transportation landscape.

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APRIL 27, 2014

Koratkar’s graduate student and first author of the paper, Mukherjee, was a finalist in the 2014 MIT-Lemelson National Collegiate Student Prize Competition in the graduate student category and presented his research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology earlier this month. Rahul Mukherjee, Abhay V. Batteries'

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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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