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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.) These include short-range, heavy-duty vehicles (e.g.,

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DECEMBER 22, 2011

A three-year study by a team of researchers based at MIT has concluded that fundamental changes are needed in the US energy-innovation system. The study was carried out at the MIT Industrial Performance Center and involved faculty and students from nine MIT departments. Innovation should become that focus.

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APRIL 11, 2020

The funding round was led by The Engine, the venture firm spun out of MIT that invests in early-stage Tough Tech companies. RISE Robotics' co-founders Arron Acosta and Blake Sessions met while at MIT and formed the company with Toomas Sepp and Kyle Dell’Aquila. Energy Information Administration. —Reed Sturtevant.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2019

Armstrong, a professor of chemical engineering at MIT. The study team of MIT faculty, researchers, and students focused on five main. —Sergey Paltsev, deputy director of the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change and senior research scientist at MITEI. —MITEI Director Robert C. —William H.

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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).

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AUGUST 29, 2021

A team at MITEI (MIT Energy Initiative) has found that hydrogen-generated electricity can be a cost-competitive option for backing up wind and solar. Nailing down the costs of hydrogen-fired electricity generation, however, was challenging. —Drake Hernandez. Much of this information was publicly available. 2021.117314.

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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. The study was supported in part by the MIT Energy Initiative. Taxes on motor vehicle fuels should be increased by $0.10 Heywood et al.

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OCTOBER 25, 2009

While a mature alternative-fuel industry could improve the resilience of the fuel-supply chain in the US (e.g., It is the result of research and analysis performed under the Partnership for AiR Transportation Noise and Emission Reduction (PARTNER) at MIT and RAND. From Hileman et al. Click to enlarge. Hileman, David S. Ortiz, James T.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2016

Switching from the automotive standards to the trading scheme could save as much as €63 billion, says the study’s lead author Sergey Paltsev, deputy director at MIT’s Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change and senior research scientist at the MIT Energy Initiative.

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MAY 14, 2020

These teams are designing tools to introduce greater flexibility in reactor systems, increase autonomy in operations, and speed up design iteration, with a goal of reducing costs at advanced reactor power plants. X-energy’s digital twin project aims to reduce the fixed O&M cost of its advanced nuclear reactor design to $2/MWh.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2012

Researchers from MIT and GM have developed a tool for estimating secondary mass savings potential early in the vehicle design process. 60 months before vehicle launch, and to accommodate the complexity and cost of change, it involves locking in certain vehicle subsystem designs as the process progresses. Credit: ACS, Alonso et al.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2021

The cost of Li-ion batteries has plunged some 97% since their introduction three decades ago—a rate similar to the drop in solar panel prices. The researchers looked at academic articles, industry and government reports, press releases, specification sheets and legal filings, says MIT postdoc Micah Ziegler.

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It can be used for a range of stationary storage use cases, including utility grids, home storage, microgrids, industrial applications, and more. It asserts that Alysm Green has a low levelized cost of storage and the ability to support a wide, software-configurable range of discharge durations.

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AUGUST 17, 2021

Addressing climate change requires not only a clean electrical grid, but also a clean fuel to reduce emissions from industrial heat, long-haul heavy transportation, and long-duration energy storage. John Deutch, an emeritus Institute Professor at MIT. Ravi Prasher is an Adjunct Professor at the University of California, Berkeley.

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OCTOBER 23, 2014

So far, a rate of about 25-35 meters per minute has been the industrial state-of-the-art. In a recent techno-economic analysis of Li-ion battery manufacturing, a CMU/MIT team used 10 meters per minute as the assumed coating processing rate. The electrode manufacturing process.

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MARCH 22, 2015

BLM staff studied state and tribal regulations and consulted with state and tribal regulators, industry, environmental experts, and the public, including communities affected by oil and gas operations. In many instances, provisions in the new rule are similar to or based on existing state or tribal rules and industry best practices.

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MAY 13, 2012

OsComp Systems, a startup formed by MIT alumni, has developed , with support from the US Department of Energy (DOE), a hybrid rotary compressor design that decreases the energy required to compress and transport natural gas, lowers operating costs, improves efficiencies and reduces the environmental footprint of well site operations.

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MAY 11, 2023

Eileen Tanghal Employer: Black Opal Ventures, New York City Title: Cofounder Education: MIT, London Business School “We want to improve health care accessibility and affordability,” Tanghal says. “To A diverse workforce, says Tanghal, produces the most inclusive and most profitable products and services.

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MARCH 1, 2022

Born in 1890 in Massachusetts, he came to prominence as the nation’s top designer of computers while at MIT In the 1930s. Bush was a fount of wisdom, particularly when it came to defining the engineer's role in the industrial research and development enterprise. In our modern tempo that industry is in danger which is in a static state.

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JULY 13, 2023

His third, lithium iron phosphate, is now one of the most popular battery chemistries in the automotive industry. in 1952 in solid-state physics, he joined MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory , in Lexington, Mass., His ability to cross disciplines started at MIT. “At After Goodenough earned a Ph.D. as a researcher.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

WiTricity, the MIT spin-off commercializing strongly coupled magnetic resonance wireless charging technology for EVs as well as consumer devices, industrial, medical and military applications ( earlier post ), has work underway to deliver wireless charging systems capable of delivering 10s of kilowatts for plug-ins, compared to the current 3.3

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DECEMBER 27, 2021

But we all know that deep learning can do wondrous things and that it's being rapidly incorporated into many industries; that's yesterday's news. Which is not to say that IEEE Spectrum didn't cover AI—we covered the heck out of it. Several came from Spectrum 's October 2021 special issue on AI, The Great AI Reckoning.

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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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AUGUST 12, 2021

The incoming freshman at MIT won $600. He says that the unsustainable cost of building spaceships is what prevents long-term space travel. Constructing such facilities in underdeveloped countries would lower the cost of industrialization while speeding up processes. The TOGG is working on designing electric vehicles.

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OCTOBER 3, 2014

Boosting the yield and lowering the cost of fermentative production of biofuel would not only result in a significant immediate financial impact to commercial ethanol operations, but also support cost reductions that would be helpful to advance other advanced biofuels using the same or a similar pathway. Ethanol tolerance.

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APRIL 30, 2010

This project will develop and optimize a novel, engineered microorganism that produces a biodiesel-equivalent fuel from renewable hydrogen and carbon dioxide, at costs of less than $2.50 The team anticipates at least a twofold productivity improvement over current levels and a cost that can be competitive with gasoline. per gallon.

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AUGUST 10, 2011

This project will develop and demonstrate the use of Ultraviolet (UV) and Electron Beam (EB) curing technology to reduce the cost of manufacturing Lithium ion battery electrodes more than 50%. PPG Industries, Inc. valve train vs. bearings). Johnson Controls, Inc. A123 Systems, Inc. A123 Systems, Inc. DENSO International America, Inc.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

The report includes a consumer pocketbook analysis, which finds that for consumers purchasing 60 mpg cars and trucks the value of the gas savings will be greater than the increased cost of the loan. However, the CFA economic analysis concludes: the analysis in this paper focuses on standards to be set in 2025.

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JULY 26, 2012

As a promising near-term technology, oxy-combustion applied at facilities using pulverized coal-fired boilers for power or industrial applications, will support CCUS efforts and result in ultra-low emissions. DOE Investment: $988,000; Recipient Cost-Share: $828,000. Gas Technology Institute. Unity Power Alliance.

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JULY 30, 2023

Left: MIT Museum; Right: Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard University Instead, it was Russian scientist Alexander Kobrinski who debuted the first clinically significant myoelectric prosthesis in 1960. A search of the MIT Museum’s database came up empty (no known example of the hearing glove exists), but I did find the entry on the Boston Arm.

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JULY 21, 2021

By 1980, customers in many industries were telling their IBM contacts to enter the fray. As developers began writing software for the IBM PC, they embraced DOS as the industry standard. It was already clear that Microsoft was going to become one of the most successful firms in the industry. A large software industry grew up.

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JULY 19, 2011

In general the passenger vehicle industry is also exceedingly cost conscious.As The time required to achieve sufficient penetration in the fleet, such that some benefits (value) are obvious to the owner, is longer than that which would motivate the installation (and cost) of the equipment. MIT and smart intersections.

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AUGUST 3, 2021

But with Moore's Law cranking along at a steady pace, there was every reason to think that the cost of computing power would come down sufficiently within a decade or so. Here I'll pick up the story as adapted from my narrative in A Biography of the Pixel , published this month by MIT Press. George and Marcia Lucas divorced in 1983.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2010

This partnership expands use of GM’s 8L long-block engine, originally intended for industrial and marine markets, to new on-highway applications of up to 33,000 lb GVW (gross vehicle weight). Conversion kits also will be available to switch medium-duty gasoline vehicles to run on propane. Renewable propane.

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AUGUST 11, 2021

He was therefore perfectly positioned to be the author of the definitive corporate history of the company he used to work for, in a book entitled IBM: The Rise and Fall and Reinvention of a Global Icon , which was published in 2019 by MIT Press. So it's nearly impossible to get the cost of manufacturing and sales down to a competitive level.

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APRIL 29, 2009

the session counted among its panelists: Professor John Heywood, Sun Jae Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Director of the Sloan Auto Laboratory at MIT. Weiss, M., “ On the Road in 2035: Reducing Transportation’s Petroleum Consumption ans GHG Emissions ,” MIT Laboratory for Energy and the Environment, Report No. Earlier post.)].

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NOVEMBER 20, 2023

If you ask a bunch of experts to predict the cost of a technology 10 years from now, they’re all over the map—9 out of 10 are wrong, and you don’t know which one is right. So when I went to MIT to do my Ph.D., There’s just so much that is contingent and unknowable. I and Nestor Sepulveda , who was also a Ph.D.

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