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

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

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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 Future of Natural Gas: An Interdisciplinary MIT Study.

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Video Friday: Robot Soccer Finals

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To begin with, we have updated Misty's conversational skills, focusing on both improved NLU capabilities and added more languages. Paper ] MIT CSAIL grad students speak about what they think is the most important unsolved problem in computer science today. [ So what is new, we hear you ask?

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MIT researchers devise simple catalytic system for fixation and conversion of CO2

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Researchers at MIT have devised a simple, soluble metal oxide system to capture and transform CO 2 into useful organic compounds. In the presence of excess carbon dioxide, a second molecule of CO 2 binds to afford a pseudo-octahedral dioxo dicarbonate complex, [MoO 2 (? 2 -CO 3 ) 2 ] 2? , The monocarbonate [MoO 3 (? 2 -CO 3 )] 2?

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DOE awards $35M to 15 projects in ARPA-E ECOSynBio program to reduce carbon footprint of biofuel production

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As a result, there is a critical need to create new pathways for biofuel conversion that reduces carbon waste, prevents the loss of CO 2 emissions, and in turn, maximizes the amount of renewable fuel a conversion process yields. A Microbial Consortium Enables Complete Feedstock Conversion - $1,574,966.00. University of Delaware.

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Researchers Demonstrate Quantum-Coupled Thermal to Electric Conversion With Efficiency as High as 40% of Carnot Limit, With Calculated Potential of Up to 90%

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Researchers from MIT, with colleagues from IISc in Bangalore, India and HiPi Consulting in Maryland have experimentally demonstrated the conversion of heat to electricity using thermal diodes with efficiency as high as 40% of the Carnot Limit. Letter U represents the electrostatic interaction while letter V represents the tunneling.

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The Complex Calculus of Clean Energy and Zero Emissions

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and “Is your electricity bill reasonably affordable?” So when I went to MIT to do my Ph.D., A year ago, we weren’t even having this conversation. We have the ability to substitute for them very quickly and affordably. Sounds like increasingly you must model how society works. I and Nestor Sepulveda , who was also a Ph.D.

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