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Nuclear Fusion’s New Idea: An Off-the-Shelf Stellarator

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Jayme Thornton PPPL researchers say their simpler machine demonstrates a way to build stellarators far more cheaply and quickly, allowing researchers to easily test new concepts for future fusion power plants. Tokamaks vs. Stellarators The stellarator’s lack of toroidal symmetry made it challenging to build.

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Why Pilots Will Matter in the Age of Autonomous Planes

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Even for conventional aircraft based on proven technologies, taking a concept from design through certification can require hundreds of millions of dollars and the better part of a decade. According to researchers at MIT, the risk of a fatality from commercial air travel was just one per 13.7

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Digital Signal Processing Pioneer Jim Boddie Remembered

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After earning a master’s degree in EE two years later from MIT , he returned to Auburn to pursue a Ph.D. Therefore Texas Instruments and similar companies sold universal digital building blocks such as multipliers and register files. The first digital signal processor Jim was born in Tallassee, a small city in Alabama.

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MIT researchers propose subsea version of pumped hydro for renewable energy storage

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Researchers at MIT are proposing using a variation on pumped hydroelectric systems for storage of electricity produced by offshore wind farms. MIT has filed for a patent on the system. These structures would serve both as anchors to moor the floating turbines and as a means of storing the energy they produce. Earlier post.).

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MIT, NASA, ORNL team developing “neutron microscope”

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Researchers at MIT, working with partners at NASA and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, have developed a new concept for a “neutron microscope”—a compact focusing-mirror-based small-angle neutron scattering instrument—that would use neutrons instead of beams of light or electrons to create high-resolution images. Earlier post.)

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DOE awards Core Power and MIT Energy Initiative funding for floating nuclear power research project

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The US Department of Energy’s Nuclear Energy University Program ( NEUP ) has awarded research funds to the MIT Energy Initiative, CORE POWER, and the Idaho National Laboratory for a three-year study into the development of offshore floating nuclear power generation in the US. Concept of OFNP. Source: MIT CANES.

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MIT researchers identify viable anode material for molten oxide electrolysis for lower CO2 steel production

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Researchers at MIT have identified inexpensive metal alloy materials that can serve as anodes for molten oxide electrolysis (MOE)—an electrometallurgical technique that enables the direct production of metal in the liquid state from oxide feedstock. They expect it could take about three years to design, build and test such a reactor.

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