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MIT Energy Initiative announces 2014 seed grant awards

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The MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI) announced its latest round of seed grants to support early-stage innovative energy projects. However, despite decades of effort, no lab-developed catalyst for achieving that conversion has been commercialized. Building on novel computation techniques, assistant professor Heather J.

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MIT researchers develop oxygen permeable membrane that converts CO2 to CO

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MIT researchers have developed a new system that could potentially be used for converting power plant emissions of carbon dioxide into carbon monoxide, and thence into useful fuels for cars, trucks, and planes, as well as into chemical feedstocks for a wide variety of products.

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MITEI study finds hydrogen-generated electricity is a cost-competitive candidate for backing up wind and solar

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A team at MITEI (MIT Energy Initiative) has found that hydrogen-generated electricity can be a cost-competitive option for backing up wind and solar. They also ran the numbers on retrofitting natural gas plants to burn hydrogen as opposed to building entirely new facilities.

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DOE to award $35M to 24 projects to support early-stage, innovative technologies and solutions in advanced manufacturing

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The team will apply atomic layer deposition technology to fabricate and modify the catalyst at the atomic level, with the goal of more than doubling catalyst lifetime, improving selectivity and conversion efficiency at reduced costs. Bio2Electric, LLC d.b.a. EcoCatalytic Technologies. Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Temple University.

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Transphorm introduces Gallium Nitride diode; >99% efficient DC-DC boost converter

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Transphorm says that its solutions cut energy waste by 20% and simplify the design and manufacturing of a wide variety of electrical systems and devices, including motor drives, power supplies and inverters for solar panels and electric vehicles. Our goal is to build [Transphorm] to be a legacy company. Perreault, MIT).

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Researchers identify new pathways in low-temp oxidation of hydrocarbons; important to fuel combustion, atmospheric chemistry and biochemistry

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Researchers at MIT, with colleagues at the University of Minnesota, have provided evidence and theoretical rate coefficients for new pathways in the low-temperature oxidation of hydrocarbons. The new pathways lead to the conversion of KHPs [?-ketohydroperoxides] Credit: ACS, Jalan et al. Click to enlarge. —Jalan et al.

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US DOE awards more than $175M to 40 projects for advanced vehicle research and development

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This project will develop a novel low cost route to carbon fiber using a lignin/PAN hybrid precursor and carbon fiber conversion technologies leading to high performance, low-cost carbon fiber. Solid state thermoelectric energy conversion devices. valve train vs. bearings). Zoltek Companies, Inc. Grantee Description. 8,000,000.