Coal, Group and MIT

Czech government, ?EZ sign MOU on $2.4B, 40GWh gigafactory; ?EZ lithium mine project progressing

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JULY 29, 2021

The Czech Ministry of Industry and Trade (MIT) and majority state-owned energy group ?EZ EZ and MIT envision an investment of at least CZK 52 billion (US$2.4 Coal-fired power plants represented 37% of capacity and 36% of generation volume in 2020; their revenues are 16% of total. EZ’s current lignite needs.

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Czech Republic MIT Coal Carbon

MIT Energy Initiative Publishes Report on Reducing CO2 Emissions from Existing Coal Plants

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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. There is no credible pathway toward prudent greenhouse gas stabilization targets without CO 2 emissions reduction from existing coal power plants. We may not see a strong CO 2 price signal for many years.

Coal

Coal MIT CO2 Emissions

MIT Report Finds Natural Gas Has Significant Potential to Displace Coal, Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions; Role in Transportation More Limited

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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).

MIT

MIT Coal Gas Emissions

Vale joins Boston Metal Series B; developing MOE for emissions-free steel

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FEBRUARY 14, 2021

Boston Metal, an MIT spin-off working to commercialize molten oxide electrolysis (MOE) for emissions-free metals and alloys production, announced that Vale and Energy Impact Partners have joined its Series B fundraising, closely following a $50M close announced in January. Background.

Boston

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MIT researchers build model simulating atmospheric transport of PAHs; how chemicals get to the Arctic

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

MIT researchers have built a model to simulate long-range atmospheric transport of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). Friedman’s work will provide a foundation for ongoing work in Selin’s research group at MIT, in collaboration with the University of Rhode Island and the Harvard School of Public Health.

MIT

MIT Transportation Rhode Island Building

DOE awards $7M to eight oxy-combustion coal technology projects; carbon capture, utilization and storage

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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. Babcock & Wilcox Power Generation Group. DOE Investment: $1,000,000; Recipient Cost-Share: $250,000.

Coal

Coal Carbon Gas-Electric Gas

Ceder group at MIT analyzes the limits and opportunities of phosphates as Li-ion cathode materials using a Materials Genome approach

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JULY 18, 2011

Researchers at MIT, led by Prof. Ceder leads the CEDER (Computational and Experimental Design of Emerging materials Research group) at MIT, and has been pushing for the realization of the “Materials Genome” project to bring advanced automated computing environments coupled to databases to materials design.

Li-ion

Li-ion MIT Ni-Li Obama

MIT/RAND Study Concludes Three Types of Alternative Jet Fuel May Be Available in Commercial Quantities Over the Next Decade

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OCTOBER 25, 2009

The five different fuel groups were those derived: from conventional petroleum; from unconventional petroleum; synthetically from natural gas, coal, or combinations of coal and biomass via the FT process; renewable oils; and alcohols. Click to enlarge.

MIT

MIT Oil-Sands Commercial Available

Separate MIT, IEA reports both outline major expansion in role of natural gas; caution on climate benefits

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JUNE 10, 2011

” 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. Separately, the International Energy Agency (IEA) released its own report exploring the potential for a “golden age” of gas. Source: IEA.

MIT

MIT Gas Climate Gas-Electric

New analysis finds Asia produces twice as much mercury emissions as previously thought

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AUGUST 12, 2015

New analysis by an international team led by MIT researchers shows that Asia now releases a surprisingly large amount of anthropogenic mercury. Such models estimate mercury emissions for a region by considering factors such as the amount of coal burned in a power plant and the types of equipment in a plant used to control emissions.

Mercury

Mercury Asia Emissions Coal

Researchers report high thermoelectric performance for indium-doped tin telluride; waste heat recovery applications

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Researchers at the University of Houston’s physics department and the Texas Center for Superconductivity, MIT and Boston College have found that indium-doped tin telluride (SnTe) shows high thermoelectric performance, with a peak figure of merit (ZT) of ?1.1 atom % In-doped SnTe at about 873 K (600 ° C).

Waste

Waste Boston Houston MIT

Phone Keyboard Exploits Leave 1 Billion Users Exposed

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APRIL 29, 2024

Zamoeux/Wikimedia Sarah Scheffler , a postdoctoral associate at MIT, expressed concern also about other kinds of data vulnerabilities that the Citizen Lab report reveals—beyond keyboards and Chinese-language specific applications, necessarily.

Chinese

Chinese Arizona Universal MIT

China’s GAC Debuts Ammonia-Powered Car Engine

The Truth About Cars

JUNE 26, 2023

Corn-based ethanol was big for a while and the Germans have recently shown a renewed interest in carbon monoxide and hydrogen-based synthetic fuel stemming from the gasification of coal, biomass, and/or methane.

Engine

Engine Power Powered Cars

California Air Resources Board Pushes for Restoration of DOE Funding for Hydrogen Fuel Cell Vehicles; Tackles the Four Miracles

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JUNE 19, 2009

When produced and distributed in high volume, hydrogen can be made efficiently from a variety of feedstocks including natural gas, biomass, and coal with sequestration at levelized costs of $3-6/kg, which, when adjusted for the efficiency of the FCV, is comparable to $1.50-%3.00/gallon Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

Hydrogen

Hydrogen Fuel California Vehicles

The Complex Calculus of Clean Energy and Zero Emissions

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NOVEMBER 20, 2023

I think that, along with similar efforts by consultancies like the Rhodium Group and Energy Innovation , we provided important real-time information for stakeholders inside and outside the negotiations as to what its likely impact would be and whether it was strong enough. So when I went to MIT to do my Ph.D.,

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Clean Cleaning Energy Emissions

MIT study concludes lifecycle GHG emissions for biofuels should be presented to decision makers and the public as a range

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APRIL 23, 2011

In a paper published in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology , researchers from MIT conclude that it is “ paramount ” that decision makers and the general public be given the range of LC-GHG emissions that could result from the production and use of a given bio or synthetic fuel, due to high variability within pathways.

MIT

MIT Emissions Range Fuel

ChargePoint’s roadmap: EV charging 80% home/work, 20% public/fast, “virtual batteries” for utilities

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APRIL 12, 2017

ChargePoint’s stance is bolstered by a new MIT study that suggests , in part, that electric cars that plug into the grid, could, collectively, act as a massive “virtual battery” for grid energy storage. MIT: Utilities and the virtual battery. Or they maintain coal-fueled backup generators that can be fired up quickly.

Charging

Charging Battery Batteries Grid

How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

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 ). Marketwatch ). Detroit News ).

Plug-in

Plug-in Plug Hybrid PHEV

EV Driven

Czech government, ?EZ sign MOU on $2.4B, 40GWh gigafactory; ?EZ lithium mine project progressing

MIT Energy Initiative Publishes Report on Reducing CO2 Emissions from Existing Coal Plants

MIT Report Finds Natural Gas Has Significant Potential to Displace Coal, Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions; Role in Transportation More Limited

Vale joins Boston Metal Series B; developing MOE for emissions-free steel

MIT researchers build model simulating atmospheric transport of PAHs; how chemicals get to the Arctic

DOE awards $7M to eight oxy-combustion coal technology projects; carbon capture, utilization and storage

Ceder group at MIT analyzes the limits and opportunities of phosphates as Li-ion cathode materials using a Materials Genome approach

MIT/RAND Study Concludes Three Types of Alternative Jet Fuel May Be Available in Commercial Quantities Over the Next Decade

Separate MIT, IEA reports both outline major expansion in role of natural gas; caution on climate benefits

New analysis finds Asia produces twice as much mercury emissions as previously thought

Researchers report high thermoelectric performance for indium-doped tin telluride; waste heat recovery applications

Phone Keyboard Exploits Leave 1 Billion Users Exposed

China’s GAC Debuts Ammonia-Powered Car Engine

California Air Resources Board Pushes for Restoration of DOE Funding for Hydrogen Fuel Cell Vehicles; Tackles the Four Miracles

The Complex Calculus of Clean Energy and Zero Emissions

MIT study concludes lifecycle GHG emissions for biofuels should be presented to decision makers and the public as a range

ChargePoint’s roadmap: EV charging 80% home/work, 20% public/fast, “virtual batteries” for utilities

How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

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