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MIT Task Force on the Work of the Future suggests widespread autonomous driving at least a decade away

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JULY 27, 2020

The MIT Task Force on the Work of the Future has released a new research brief examining the future of autonomous vehicles. The crucial role of public transit for connecting workers to workplaces will endure: the future of work depends in large part on how people get to work.

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MIT Future Environment Auto Industry

UCL-led study finds climate impact caused by growing space industry needs urgent mitigation

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JUNE 26, 2022

The rapidly growing space industry may have a greater climate effect than the aviation industry and undo repair to the protective ozone layer if left unregulated, according to a new study led by UCL and published in the journal Earth’s Future as an open-access paper. The space industry is one of the world’s fastest growing sectors.

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MIT team reexamines rates of Li-ion cost decline

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MARCH 24, 2021

However, attempts to quantify that cost decline has produced ambiguous and conflicting results that have hampered attempts to project the technology’s future or devise useful policies and research priorities.

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Li-ion MIT Lithium Ion Price

CliMA consortium seeks to build more precise climate model from ground up

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DECEMBER 13, 2018

A consortium of researchers led by Caltech, in partnership with MIT; the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS); and JPL, which Caltech manages for NASA, seeks to build a new type of climate model that is designed to provide more precise and actionable predictions. —Tapio Schneider, Caltech’s Theodore Y.

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Climate Building MIT Ferrari

MITEI releases report on 3-year study of future mobility; technological innovation, policies, and behavioral changes all needed; “car pride” an issue

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NOVEMBER 24, 2019

The report is the culmination of MITEI’s three-year Mobility of the Future study, which is part of MIT’s Plan for Action on Climate Change. Understanding the future of personal mobility requires an integrated analysis of technology, infrastructure, consumer choice, and government policy. —MITEI Director Robert C.

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Future MIT Climate Change Alternative Fuels

MIT Energy Initiative report on transforming the US transportation system by 2050 to address climate challenges

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MARCH 16, 2016

The report addresses topics related to the evolution of vehicle technology and its deployment, the development of alternative fuels and energy sources, the impacts of driver behavior, and the implications of all of these factors on future GHG emissions in the United States, Europe, China, and Japan.

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Amogy and Trafigura to research ammonia cracking technology as a facilitator to global hydrogen supply chains

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

The findings of this joint research on ammonia cracking will help support industry-wide efforts to decarbonize transport and heavy industrial processes and lower carbon emissions to meet global climate goals. Founded in 2020 by four MIT PhD alumni, Amogy aims to enable the decarbonization of the heavy-duty transportation sector.

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Hydrogen Global Supplies MIT

Tesla Giga Berlin gets Green Party support despite critics’ water consumption woes

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AUGUST 23, 2021

In its 2020 application, Tesla forecasted that Giga Berlin would consume 3.3 Like top-Chancellor candidate Armin Laschet (CDU), Kellner noted that Giga Berlin would generate jobs, promising a good future. Klimaneutralität gelingt nur mit mehr Tempo. Climate neutrality can only be achieved with greater speed.

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Study finds climate-influencing cirrus clouds form around mineral dust and metallic aerosols; little evidence of black carbon

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MAY 10, 2013

An interdisciplinary team from MIT, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and elsewhere has identified the major particles upon which cirrus clouds form. Cirrus clouds influence global climate, cooling the planet by reflecting incoming solar radiation and warming it by trapping outgoing heat. —Cziczo et al.

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U Chicago, MIT study suggests ongoing use of fossil fuels absent new carbon taxes

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FEBRUARY 24, 2016

A paper by a team from the University of Chicago and MIT suggests that technology-driven cost reductions in fossil fuels will lead to the continued use of fossil fuels—oil, gas, and coal—unless governments pass new taxes on carbon emissions. What are the prospects for avoiding this dystopian future? F of warming.

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Chicago MIT Tax Carbon

ExxonMobil and Princeton select five energy research projects; including batteries and solar

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Arctic Sea-Ice Modeling: The focus of the project is to advance sea-ice models used for understanding the factors controlling Arctic sea-ice cycles and, consequently, the ability to make reliable seasonal and long-range forecasts for sea-ice formation and melting.

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Solar Energy Batteries Battery

US DOE awards ~$5M to expand research on methane hydrates

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NOVEMBER 20, 2013

The project will provide a powerful new modeling tool to optimize future hydrate production-related testing and to provide a higher understanding of how hydrate systems react to induced or natural changes in their environment. ?DOE Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). MIT will work with the U.S.

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MIT Task Force on the Work of the Future suggests widespread autonomous driving at least a decade away

UCL-led study finds climate impact caused by growing space industry needs urgent mitigation

MIT team reexamines rates of Li-ion cost decline

CliMA consortium seeks to build more precise climate model from ground up

MITEI releases report on 3-year study of future mobility; technological innovation, policies, and behavioral changes all needed; “car pride” an issue

MIT Energy Initiative report on transforming the US transportation system by 2050 to address climate challenges

Amogy and Trafigura to research ammonia cracking technology as a facilitator to global hydrogen supply chains

Tesla Giga Berlin gets Green Party support despite critics’ water consumption woes

Study finds climate-influencing cirrus clouds form around mineral dust and metallic aerosols; little evidence of black carbon

U Chicago, MIT study suggests ongoing use of fossil fuels absent new carbon taxes

ExxonMobil and Princeton select five energy research projects; including batteries and solar

US DOE awards ~$5M to expand research on methane hydrates

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