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

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The conversation about regulating the environmental impact of the space launch industry needs to start now so we can minimise harm to the stratospheric ozone layer and climate. Impact of rocket launch and space debris air pollutant emissions on stratospheric ozone and global climate.” —Ryan et al. Marais, E. Balhatchet, C.

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

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” 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.

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

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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 Future of Natural Gas: An Interdisciplinary MIT Study.

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MIT researchers devise simple catalytic system for fixation and conversion of CO2

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Researchers at MIT have devised a simple, soluble metal oxide system to capture and transform CO 2 into useful organic compounds. Ideally we’d like to develop carbon-neutral cycles for renewable energy, to get carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and avoid pollution. 2 -CO 3 )] 2? 50% isolated yield) after 22 hours at 85 °C.

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Taking another look at methanol as an alternative transportation fuel for the US

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A recent white paper by Leslie Bromberg of MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center and Wai K. technology and there is progress on the economic conversion of biomass to. Large scale production of methanol from natural gas and coal is a well-developed. methanol using thermo-chemical processes. It is a safe fuel.

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The Complex Calculus of Clean Energy and Zero Emissions

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So when I went to MIT to do my Ph.D., A year ago, we weren’t even having this conversation. All the things we don’t like about natural gas, whether it’s methane leaks or fracking or air pollution or CO 2 emissions, scale with how much gas we burn. I and Nestor Sepulveda , who was also a Ph.D.

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Just Calm Down About GPT-4 Already

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Best known as a robotics researcher, academic, and entrepreneur, Brooks is also an authority on AI: he directed the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT until 2007, and held faculty positions at Carnegie Mellon and Stanford before that. Are there any of these big projects now that fill you with hope and optimism?

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