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MAY 25, 2011

A report from MIT and The University of Texas at Austin urges the US to accelerate efforts to pursue carbon capture and storage (CCS) in combination with enhanced oil recovery (EOR), a practice that could increase domestic oil production while significantly curbing emissions of carbon dioxide. -EOR highlighted in red.

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JUNE 10, 2011

MIT and the IEA both have newly released reports exploring the potential for and impact of a major expansion in global usage of natural gas, given the current re-evaluation of global supplies. MIT: leaning toward conversion for light-duty vehicles. Earlier post.) I.e., on an energy basis at the point of use, the CO 2.

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AUGUST 6, 2016

Researchers at MIT and startup Novogy have engineered bacteria and yeast ( Escherichia coli , Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Yarrowia lipolytica ) used as producer microbes in biofuel production to use rare compounds as sources of nutrients. The researchers engineered E. The ROBUST strategy. Like the engineered E.

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JUNE 9, 2011

A new assessment of the viability of coal-to-liquids (CTL) technology by researchers from the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change (JPSPGC) found that without climate policy, CTL has the potential to account for around a third of global liquid fuels by 2050. of global electricity demand.

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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 study found that there are significant global supplies of conventional gas.

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MARCH 29, 2024

Now, an MIT spin-off says it has found a solution in an innovative technology that could dramatically reduce the costs and timelines of drilling to fantastic depths. Although Wostov is credited as a founder of Quaise, he says he has no financial stake in the company—unlike MIT. Quaise Energy , based in Cambridge, Mass.,

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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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MARCH 8, 2010

Multi-walled carbon nanotubes coated with a 7nm annular shell of cyclotrimethylene-trinitramine (TNA) were used to demonstrate the thermopower waves. While many semiconductor materials can produce an electric potential in response to heat, that effect is very weak in carbon. Source: Choi et al. Click to enlarge.

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MARCH 13, 2023

Eni and Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS), a spin-out of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) signed a Collaboration Framework Agreement with the aim of accelerating the industrialization of fusion energy. Eni made its first investment into CFS in 2018 and is a significant shareholder.

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JUNE 20, 2009

The MIT Energy Initiative has released a new report on reducing carbon dioxide emissions from existing coal plants. Professor Ernest Moniz, director of the MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI). We may not see a strong CO 2 price signal for many years. Such plants make up less than half of the existing fleet.

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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. Earlier post.) Engineering E. per gallon.

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OCTOBER 25, 2009

In the latter case, capture and sequestration of plant-site carbon emissions would be required, but overall costs would be much less, as would biomass consumption. While a mature alternative-fuel industry could improve the resilience of the fuel-supply chain in the US (e.g., From Hileman et al. Click to enlarge. Hileman, David S.

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AUGUST 17, 2021

John Deutch, an emeritus Institute Professor at MIT. However, it costs $4 to $6 per kilogram, a price that Majumdar and colleagues suggest could be reduced to under $2 per kilogram with a reduction in carbon-free electricity and electrolyzer costs. He has served as Chairman of the Department of Chemistry, Dean of Science, and Provost.

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JULY 15, 2023

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. “At

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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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Tesla and Volkswagen have also expanded their exports from China, which of course leverages the country’s cheaper supply chain to their advantage. Not to mention, the shipping industry is currently facing its own carbon emissions reckoning and needs to radically decarbonize in the coming years to meet Paris climate goals.

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JANUARY 13, 2011

The MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI) has released a report on the proceedings—and papers that informed those proceedings—of the 8 April 2010 symposium on The Electrification of the Transportation System: Issues and Opportunities. The symposium was sponsored by the MIT Energy Initiative, together with Ormat, Hess, Cummins and Entergy.

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JULY 2, 2012

However, currently all of these are tied to a simple 12V on-board power supply. The car of today has to step-up from a simple 12 Volt on-board power supply to 42V or a proposed 48V power-net, in order to support all new systems and applications for enhanced performance, thereby demanding a massive investment across the entire ecosystem.

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OCTOBER 12, 2015

Researchers at the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change have compared the worldwide economic, environmental, and energy impacts of currently planned fuel economy standards (extended to the year 2050) with those of region-specific carbon prices designed to yield identical CO 2 emissions reductions.

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AUGUST 10, 2011

This project will determine levels at which higher alcohols and other advanced oxygenated fuel components can be readily integrated into the existing fuel supply (i.e., Increased availability of low cost carbon fiber can enable vehicle weight reduction and improvement in fuel economy. Plasan Carbon Composites. 962,497. .

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FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Carbon balance associated with all land use change and that directly associated with biofuels over the period 2000-2050 as simulated by the deforestation (a) and intensification (b) scenarios. Carbon debt. The indirect carbon debt could be as large as 82 Pg C, giving a total carbon debt of 21-103 Pg C. Melillo et al.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Among the most articulate and almost certainly the wonkiest is Jesse Jenkins , a professor of engineering at Princeton University, where he heads the ZERO Lab—the Zero-carbon Energy systems Research and Optimization Laboratory, that is. So when I went to MIT to do my Ph.D., You need a bigger grid to supply that electricity.

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JUNE 19, 2009

In ARB’s analysis, most vehicles on the road in 2050 will need to be electric drive, or ultra low-carbon fuel vehicles—i.e., The main question for hydrogen supply and refueling is how much public or private investment will be needed to achieve profitability, ARB staff noted. Earlier post.). Earlier post. ). Earlier post. ).

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NOVEMBER 3, 2012

Researchers at MIT have adapted the butanol pathway for the synthesis of odd-chain molecules and have also developed a complementary modular toolkit to facilitate pathway construction, characterization, and optimization in engineered Escherichia coli bacteria. Tseng and Prather 2012. Click to enlarge.

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AUGUST 16, 2021

Those objections added to the concerns environmentalists were raising about the ozone layer—a scenario seemingly justified a few years later by MIT researchers, who concluded that a future fleet of 500 supersonic airliners would deplete the ozone layer by 16 percent. Clearly, nobody would accept stone-fracturing sonic booms.

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OCTOBER 24, 2009

Thirteen scientists and land use experts conclude in a new paper that an important but fixable error in legal accounting rules used to measure compliance with carbon limits for bioenergy could undermine efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by encouraging deforestation. Their paper is published in the 23 Oct. Accounting rules.

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MARCH 19, 2015

FHRs feature low-pressure liquid fluoride salt cooling; solid coated particle fuel; carbon-based neutron moderation; fully passive decay heat rejection; and a high temperature power cycle. MIT is investigating a fluoride-salt-cooled high temperature test reactor (FHTR). Lithium-7 cost.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2022

The MIT will develop a new generation of power electronics based on vertical gallium nitride (GaN) superjunction diodes and transistors that can vastly exceed the performance of today’s GaN power devices. 3D-Printed Ceramic Thermocatalytic CO 2 Reactor with High Carbon Conversion and Energy Efficiencies - $3,100,104.

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APRIL 22, 2016

This distributed energy strategy would supply the domestic and transportation energy needs of the household. 26 ] Where does bioenergy fit into a low-carbon future? - MIT News 15 Jan 2015. [ 32 ] For each PHEVLER there should also be a 6 to 8kW solar or wind electric generator installed near the home or workplace of the driver.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2012

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) will develop a. deployed remotely, MIT’s reformer could be used for small, remote sources of gas. would supply the growing market of wind turbine generators and. ARPA-E OPEN 2012 selections: Carbon Capture. Enabling Efficient Electrochemical Conversion of Carbon Dioxide.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

improved oilseed crop that uses carbon more efficiently than. 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. conferring hydrocarbon biosynthesis, enhanced carbon. traditional crops.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

The supply of metals like cobalt, copper, lithium, and nickel needed for batteries is already shaky , and soaring demand for the hundreds of millions of batteries in the coming decades is likely to trigger shortage and high prices. China processes about 80 percent of battery raw materials, creating a chokehold on global supplies.

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