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AUGUST 29, 2011

Researchers at MIT have developed a new detailed air-quality model to simulate the effects of physical, chemical, and meteorological processing of highly reactive trace species in urban areas. These pollutants include anthropogenic aerosols, which have important climate and health implications.

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APRIL 3, 2010

A new MIT report outlines a system-oriented set of coordinated policies to help the light-duty vehicle sector reduce petroleum-based consumption and its accompanying global warming emissions. Interest groups are constantly diverging into separate camps and lobbying for separate policies. “We Heywood et al.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

MIT researchers have found a new family of highly active catalyst materials that provides the best performance yet in the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) in electrochemical water-splitting—a key requirement for energy storage and delivery systems such as advanced fuel cells and lithium-air batteries. Source: MIT. Grimaud et al.

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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). Bilateral approaches on climate change should be encouraged and supported as a matter of US policy. Summary of symposium report.

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DECEMBER 3, 2010

Global infrastructure company Ferrovial and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) just signed a five-year agreement, with Ferrovial joining the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Energy Initiative (MITEI) to support a range of research projects on transforming critical urban infrastructures of the future. Ferrovial and MIT.

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OCTOBER 25, 2009

Normalized well-to-wake GHG emissions for low-, baseline- and high-emission cases for jet fuel pathways under different land use change scenarios. This constraint places a severe limit on the amount of climate-friendly HRJ that can be produced within the next decade. From Hileman et al. Click to enlarge.

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DECEMBER 9, 2022

In a quest to ease some of said burdens, researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), Autodesk Research, and Texas A&M University came up with a method to automatically assemble products that’s accurate, efficient and generalizable to a wide range of complex real-world assemblies.

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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. “We

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MAY 20, 2022

He earned a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering in 1960 from MIT. The nonprofit, based in Silicon Valley, promotes collaboration between the two countries to help develop technology to combat climate change. Larson was a member of the IEEE Heritage Circle—a cumulative giving donor recognition group.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Thousands of Washington insiders and climate activists have had a hand in these legislative breakthroughs. presidential election, it seemed that we were entering one of those rare windows where you might see substantial policy action on climate and clean energy. C in this century. clean-tech legislation.

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DECEMBER 31, 2023

And yet more air conditioning exacerbates the very problem—climate change—that is driving the need for more air conditioning. The company is one of a growing group targeting grid-scale applications, particularly for solar installations. What to do? Two words: heat pumps.

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JUNE 28, 2023

As a member of the industrial engineering and operations research group, she developed advanced methods for image analysis and applications for mapping and monitoring land cover using satellite imagery. One was an MIT electrical engineering student to whom she had given one of her old spectrometers to start his research.

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MARCH 24, 2022

While Judy Estrin was a student at Stanford in the 1970s, she was a member of Internet pioneer Vinton Cerf’s group that helped develop the Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol. student in electrical engineering and computer science at MIT. ?IEEE: Deborah Estrin says she’s always been drawn to experimental work.

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MAY 20, 2009

A new comprehensive MIT study of the probabilistic projections of climate change in this century found that absent aggressive intervention, warming will likely be about twice as severe as previously estimated by the MIT model six years ago. C by 2100, with a 90% probability range of 3.5 Stone, Chris E. Kicklighter, B.

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MARCH 11, 2023

Over the course of the project, the group successfully demonstrated bidirectional EV power using simulated dispatch commands from the ISO’s computerized energy-management system. Parts of this article are adapted from the author’s new book, Age of Auto Electric ( MIT Press, 2022).

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OCTOBER 18, 2023

Before we start, I want to tell you that you can get the latest coverage from some of Spectrum’s most important beats, including AI, climate change, and robotics, by signing up for one of our free newsletters. And in our conception now, it’s usually states have obligations to individuals or groups. Strickland: That was Wendy H.

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MAY 17, 2022

A Portable Desalination System Makes Water Potable—Without a Filter Payal Dhar (Freelance Blogger) MIT researchers have developed a prototype of a suitcase-size device that can turn seawater into safe drinking water. With climate change exacerbating water scarcity globally, seawater desalination is stepping in to fill the void.

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MARCH 16, 2016

Overall, we have substantial opportunities for reducing environmental and climate impacts from light-duty road vehicles. It is the third report in a series that records the research findings of this group; “On the Road in 2020” was published in 2000 and “On the Road in 2035” was published in 2008.

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APRIL 21, 2009

Chicago Tribune ) DaimlerChrysler 12/22/06 [DaimlerChrysler Group research chief Thomas Weber] played down the importance for passenger cars of plug-in hybrid technology that is getting lots of attention in the U.S. But we want to give them cause to continue to press forward." ( MIT Technology Review ). GM Press Release ).

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APRIL 16, 2009

Earlier this month, researchers from MIT said they had developed a process that within three years could lead to electric car batteries able to recharge in as little as five minutes. Design by RareEdge Design Group. Nissan is working on an electric car that it says is on track to have a 100-mile range and 26-minute charge time.

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