article thumbnail

MIT team finds lead levels higher in Indian Ocean than northern Atlantic and Pacific oceans

Green Car Congress

MIT researchers have discovered that lead concentrations in the Indian Ocean are now higher than in the northern Atlantic and northern Pacific oceans. Lead was phased out much later in South Asia, so conditions there are more like they were 20 years ago in the North Atlantic,” Anderson says.

MIT 199
article thumbnail

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

Green Car Congress

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.

MIT 240
article thumbnail

This Fusion Reactor Is Held Together With Tape

Cars That Think

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.

Fusion 97
article thumbnail

USABC awards Cobasys $8.4M for the development of high-energy density Li-ion cells and packs for EVs

Green Car Congress

Bosch has extensive experience in hybrid and electric drive technology as well as power electronics, electric motors, transmissions and DC/DC converters. SB LiMotive has its global foothold in all three major economic regions of the world: Asia, Europe and the Americas.

Li-ion 186
article thumbnail

Study Concludes That an Aggressive Global Cellulosic Biofuels Program Could Have Unintended Consequences

Green Car Congress

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.

Global 170
article thumbnail

How E Ink Developed Full-Color e-Paper

Cars That Think

Its story began a decade earlier, in 1997, at the MIT Media Lab , when it was created by two students, J.D. For now, it has been geared predominantly toward use in retail signs in Asia. The processes it used had to be converted to operate in a different, production-ready machine. From the very beginning, e-paper seemed magical.

Light 145
article thumbnail

How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Fisker $80,000 Karma series luxury 50-mile range series PHEV, S Sunset convertible version.Partnering with Quantum Technologies. Several aftermarket companies and organizations have converted hundreds of Priuses -- see Where PHEVs Are.) But we want to give them cause to continue to press forward." ( MIT Technology Review ).

Plug-in 45