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The MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI) announced its latest round of seed grants to support early-stage innovative energy projects. Past themes have included topics as diverse as the role of big data and the energy-water nexus. A total of more than $1.6 million was awarded to 11 projects, each lasting up to two years.

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OCTOBER 15, 2010

MIT Energy Initiative Receiving (MITEI) is receiving $25M from Shell to fund the research and development of high-value, sustainable technologies designed to drive innovation in energy delivery. Those projects will focus on biofuels, advanced modeling, earth science, nanotechnology and carbon management.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2023

The US Department of Energy (DOE) Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) announced $10 million in funding for eight projects working to determine whether low-energy nuclear reactions (LENR) could be the basis for a potentially transformative carbon-free energy source. Earlier post.) Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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JANUARY 26, 2021

Researchers at MIT have developed a method that could significantly boost the performance of carbon capture and conversion systems that use catalytic surfaces to enhance the rates of carbon-sequestering electrochemical reactions. The movement through water is sluggish, which slows the rate of conversion of the carbon dioxide.

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JUNE 10, 2011

Both reports also emphasized that although natural gas is the lowest carbon fossil fuel, it is still a fossil fuel. ” 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.

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JUNE 26, 2010

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 first two reports dealt with nuclear power (2003) and coal (2007).

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JULY 26, 2012

The US Department of Energy (DOE) selected eight projects to advance the development of transformational oxy-combustion technologies capable of high-efficiency, low-cost carbon dioxide capture from coal-fired power plants. The Energy Department’s $7 million investment—leveraged with recipient cost-share to support approximately $9.4

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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.

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APRIL 30, 2010

ARPA-E’s first solicitation awarded $151 million to 37 projects aimed at transformational innovations in energy storage, biofuels, carbon capture, renewable power, building efficiency, vehicles, and other areas. Novel Biological Conversion of Hydrogen and Carbon Dioxide Directly into Biodiesel. Water will be the primary byproduct.

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AUGUST 5, 2015

A team of researchers at MIT and Tsinghua University has developed a high-rate, high-capacity and long-lived anode for Li-ion batteries comprising a yolk-shell nanocomposite of aluminum core (30 nm in diameter) and TiO 2 shell (~3 nm in thickness), with a tunable interspace (Al@TiO 2 , or ATO). Earlier post.). —Li et al.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2013

US Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz announced nearly $5 million in funding across seven research projects designed to increase the understanding of methane hydrates. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Earlier post.). Selected projects are: Georgia Tech Research Corporation. DOE Investment: approximately $650,000.

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APRIL 29, 2015

JCAP researchers are focused on achieving the major scientific breakthroughs needed to produce liquid transportation fuels from a combination of sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide, using artificial photosynthesis. The research program involves eight core projects: Light Capture and Conversion.

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AUGUST 14, 2013

The surprising proximity of the surface MIT transition temperature of nonstoichiometric films with that of the fully oxygenated bulk suggests that the electronic properties in the surface region are not significantly affected by oxygen deficiency in the bulk. —Snijders et al. —Paul Snijders.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

During the virtual visioning event in December, experts explored solar and renewable energy, carbon sequestration, water management, and geoengineering. Water, ecosystem, and geoengineering assessments. She is a vice president for knowledge enterprise at Ohio State University , in Columbus.

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JUNE 3, 2016

Researchers at Harvard have created a hybrid water splitting–biosynthetic system based on a biocompatible Earth-abundant inorganic catalyst system to split water into molecular hydrogen and oxygen (H 2 and O 2 ) at low driving voltages. In principle, we have a platform that can make any downstream carbon-based molecule.

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MAY 15, 2021

The US Department of Energy (DOE) is awarding $35 million to 15 research projects through ARPA-E’s “Energy and Carbon Optimized Synthesis for the Bioeconomy” (ECOSynBio) program to decarbonize biorefining processes used across the energy, transportation, and agriculture sectors. Carbon-Negative Chemical Production Platform - $4,160,262.57.

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AUGUST 4, 2021

There is no denying the need for nuclear power in a world that hungers for clean, carbon-free energy. Government researchers there unveiled a design for a commercial molten salt reactor (MSR) that uses. At the same time, there's a need for safer technologies that bear less proliferation risk. Thorium MSRs have the advantage of.

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JULY 15, 2023

Commonwealth Fusion Systems says this spool of high-temperature superconducting tape is key to the startup’s smaller, cheaper tokamak design. At that point, we’ll be one step closer to a new era of carbon-free baseload electricity,” says Sorbom. “We The tape is made up of yttrium barium copper oxide deposited on a steel substrate.

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JULY 25, 2016

An international team from MIT, Argonne National Laboratory and Peking University has demonstrated a lab-scale proof-of-concept of a new type of cathode for Li-air batteries that could overcome the current drawbacks to the technology, including a high potential gap (>1.2 V) It also displays stable cycling performance (only 1.8%

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JUNE 28, 2023

I was interested in the design and operation of airplanes and spacecraft.” People were really interested in clean air and clean water, so I decided there would always be interest in the environment,” Crawford says. Although it was designed for a life of 18 months, the mission operated successfully for 16 years.

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AUGUST 16, 2021

They're preparing prototypes for flight and they've got designs for full-blown airliners capable of carrying scores of passengers. Shortly afterward, the federal government issued a contract to Boeing, which had prevailed over Lockheed and others in a design competition, to develop such a plane. supersonic airliner.

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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. —Harry Tuller.

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MARCH 19, 2015

The project will draw on ORNL’s expertise in fuels, materials, instrumentation and controls, design concepts, and modeling and simulation for advanced reactors, as well as the lab’s experience in the design, construction and operation of the Molten Salt Reactor Experiment, the only molten salt reactor ever built. cool the fuel.

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MARCH 5, 2014

Researchers at MIT have devised a simple, soluble metal oxide system to capture and transform CO 2 into useful organic compounds. Scientists have long sought ways to convert carbon dioxide to organic compounds. With most of those catalysts, the carbon dioxide binds directly to the metal atoms. —Christopher Cummins.

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MAY 26, 2020

Ruthenium dioxide is widely used in industrial processes, in which it’s particularly important for catalyzing the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) that splits molecules of water and releases oxygen. I think the exciting aspect of the work is that we push a little bit the boundary of our understanding of the catalysis of splitting water.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Synteris’ technology would substantially improve the design, manufacturability, and function of power modules used in electric vehicles, aircraft, and other applications. PCI) will demonstrate a fundamentally new solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) architecture that permits a power dense, lightweight design ideal for transportation applications.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Heliogen’s mission is to create the world’s first technology that can commercially replace fossil fuels with carbon-free, ultra-high temperature heat from the sun and to transform sunlight into fuels at scale. Its heat technology represents a key technical breakthrough for concentrated solar thermal.

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MARCH 23, 2019

These project teams seek to develop new approaches and technologies for the design and manufacture of high temperature, high pressure, and highly compact heat exchangers and components. Heat-Exchanger Intensification through Powder Processing and Enhanced Design (HIPPED) – $2,300,000. Carnegie Mellon University.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2012

amounts a sunlight, Cornell’s design will increase efficiency and. decrease water use compared to conventional algae reactors. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) will develop a. deployed remotely, MIT’s reformer could be used for small, remote sources of gas. Earlier post.). The reactor delivers. Technology.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Frank Rosenblatt at Cornell to design the first artificial neural network, which he presciently described as a "pattern-recognizing device." Early approaches to this problem used rules designed by grammar experts. But Rosenblatt's ambitions outpaced the capabilities of his era—and he knew it. Yes and no. Extrapolating this way.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

improved oilseed crop that uses carbon more efficiently than. Energy Plant Design The University of California, Los Angeles, will re-engineer. streamline the process by which green plants convert carbon. several genes that allow the plant to use light more efficiently, increase its carbon uptake, and divert more energy to the.

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MARCH 7, 2011

Ethylene, with a $160-billion market, is a valuable commodity two-carbon chemical that can be oligomerized into transportation fuels. But once you are at a two-carbon molecule with a double bond, you can go anywhere in the chemical industry. The ethane subsequently undergoes dehydrogenation to form ethylene and water.

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Written by Josie Garthwaite 9 Comments Posted March 31st, 2009 at 5:00 am in Automotive Before unveiling the concept version of its Model S sedan, an $57,400 electric car that Tesla Motors wants to build using loans from the Department of Energy, the startup said the Model S battery would be designed to handle rapid charging.

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