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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.) I.e., on an energy basis at the point of use, the CO 2.

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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. Business as usual is unsustainable over the long run.

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MAY 29, 2014

In a companion study to an SAE paper presented in April ( earlier post ), researchers at MIT have quantified the net economic and CO 2 emissions benefit that could be obtained by utilizing 98 RON gasoline in light-duty vehicles, based on reasonable assumptions for possible refinery changes and the evolution of the LDV fleet.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

Researchers led by MIT professor Daniel Nocera have produced an “artificial leaf”—a solar water-splitting cell producing hydrogen and oxygen that operates in near-neutral pH conditions, both with and without connecting wires. The cells were operated in a two-electrode cell configuration. (B) Reece et al. Click to enlarge.

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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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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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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. —Sergey Paltsev.

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MAY 14, 2020

X-energy: Advanced Operation & Maintenance Techniques Implemented in the Xe-100 Plant Digital Twin to Reduce Fixed O&M Cost - $6,000,000. 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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OCTOBER 23, 2015

At the IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, a trio of present and past MIT graduate students won a best-student-paper award for a new general-purpose algorithm for solving optimization problems. The theory—and sometimes the implementation—of control systems relies heavily on optimization (e.g., earlier post ).

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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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DECEMBER 27, 2021

Deep Learning's Diminishing Returns : MIT's Neil Thompson and several of his collaborators captured the top spot with a thoughtful feature article about the computational and energy costs of training deep learning systems. Several came from Spectrum 's October 2021 special issue on AI, The Great AI Reckoning.

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JULY 31, 2015

Even when presented with travel options that consume less energy, travelers and commuters may be less likely to use these energy-efficient options if they affect the duration, cost or convenience of a trip. The system will evaluate trips and provide travelers with useful information designed to incentivize energy efficiency.

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MARCH 22, 2015

The result of this careful consultation is a rule that will enhance environmental protection in a thoughtful and cost-effective way. BLM estimates the new rule will cost less than one-fourth of 1 percent of the cost of drilling a well, based on the Energy Information Administration’s average per well cost of $5.4

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JULY 15, 2020

The post-combustion outlet gas is more easily separated into water and CO 2 to the pipeline, thereby lowering the electricity costs of grids with high levels of VRE. The team’s approach uses a novel and low-cost heat-pump thermal storage system. 8 Rivers Capital. Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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JUNE 28, 2023

If you go back far enough, to the 1980s, when Marc Raibert was developing dynamic legged robots at MIT, those running and jumping robots were relying on pneumatics rather than hydraulics, because pneumatics were much easier to implement.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

This work presents a new electrode material, the so-called hydrophilized polymer network. With existing technologies based on liquid electrolytes, it costs about US$7 to store each farad. With the advanced energy storage membrane, the cost to store each farad falls to US$0.62. Wh per US dollar for lithium ion batteries.

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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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AUGUST 12, 2021

The award was presented during the Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair. The incoming freshman at MIT won $600. He says that the unsustainable cost of building spaceships is what prevents long-term space travel. IEEE Presidents' Scholarship , which is payable over four years of undergraduate university study.

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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. Good proposals have been turned down because the engineers who drafted them could not present them in convincing form.” Research] is a necessity [if only as] a defense against encroachment from without.”

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JULY 9, 2017

In a new study, a team from the University of Central Florida and MIT has found that the US Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) Standards is an effective policy solution that does increase the adoption of EVs, whether it is implemented alone or in conjunction with another policy such as government incentives.

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JUNE 19, 2009

Commercialization of those technologies must start in the next decade, noted ARB Executive Officer Tom Cackette in a presentation at the recent Advanced Automotive Battery Conference. Fuel cell system durability has improved and costs have been reduced through R&D, the ARB staff noted. Earlier post.). Earlier post. ).

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APRIL 6, 2009

One of the obstacles to commercializing hydrogen fuel cell vehicles is the cost of the fuel cells themselves. Furthermore, these NPMCs may also present opportunities for ORR in direct alcohol, formic acid, and alkaline fuel cells. Gasteiger of MIT and M. milligram of platinum per square centimeter at a cell voltage of ?0.9

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JULY 19, 2011

By exchanging anonymous, vehicle-based data regarding position, speed, and location (at a minimum), V2V communications enables a vehicle to: sense threats and hazards with a 360 degree awareness of the position of other vehicles and the threat or hazard they present; calculate risk; issue driver advisories or warnings; or.

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JULY 21, 2021

That August, Lowe presented his plan to Cary and the rest of the management committee at IBM headquarters in Armonk, N.Y. ESD even offered the machines to employees as potential Christmas presents for a few hundred dollars, but that ploy also failed. Gates was now their only option, and he took the IBMers seriously.

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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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FEBRUARY 27, 2012

FEV system boundaries for cost evaluation: powersplit (left) and P2 (right). Referencing earlier work by the National Academy and MIT, German said that the P2 system can deliver 90% of the benefit at 1/3 of the cost of an input powersplit system using planetary gearing, as exemplified by the Toyota and Ford hybrid systems.

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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., Getting these models adopted beyond the academic setting presents a lot of challenges.

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APRIL 17, 2009

Also, answer the “Question of the Week” and enter for a chance to win a free full-conference pass to EmTech—the Emerging Technologies Conference at MIT (a $1,795 value). Register » ) Current Issue The 10 Emerging Technologies of 2009 Technology Review presents its annual list of 10 technologies that could change the way we live.

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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

On 20 April, the opening day of the SAE 2009 World Congress, the AVL Technology Leadership Theater presented a forum on “Green Mobility—The Long View”. the session counted among its panelists: Professor John Heywood, Sun Jae Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Director of the Sloan Auto Laboratory at MIT. Bandivadekar, A.,

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FEBRUARY 15, 2022

The selected projects will focus on technologies such as revolutionizing fuel cells for light- and heavy-duty vehicles, and technologies to generate less nuclear waste and reduce the cost of fuel. Select OPEN 2021 projects include: Synteris. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Columbia University. University of Maryland.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2022

The Kuka website doesn't say how much this thing costs, which means it's almost certainly not something that you impulse buy. Kuka ] We present the tensegrity aerial vehicle, a design of collision-resilient rotor robots with icosahedron tensegrity structures. If only cobots were as easy to use as this video from Kuka makes it seem.

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OCTOBER 27, 2013

Based on the interim results of a new study, MIT researchers are warning smaller nations to proceed with caution in pursuing the development of their natural gas resources. The cost for these smaller nations makes up a larger portion of their economies, so before spending the money, they need to have the proper expectations.

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MARCH 1, 2023

Licklider, long a prominent evangelist for personal, interactive, networked computing through his roles at MIT, Bolt Beranek & Newman (a contract research company deeply involved in building the Internet, now Raytheon BBN), ARPA, IBM, and numerous professional organizations. The two were disciples of J.C.R. But this is wrong.

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JANUARY 23, 2023

It is true that there are some EVs that will soon appear in the competitive price range of ICE vehicles like the low-end GM EV Equinox SUV presently priced around $30,000 with a 280-mile range. How long GM will be able to keep that price in the face of battery cost increases and inflationary pressure, is anyone’s guess.

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APRIL 21, 2009

This is from "Commercializing Plug-In Hybrids" (pdf), the current CalCars 24-slide presentation about PHEVs available along with other documents at CalCars Downloads. Agrees on environmental and economic benefits, though some presentations backtrack on that; says batteries need further development before commitment to mass-production.

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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. The thing that bothers me the most about Tesla is not the range or cost of driving an EV. a gallon , that’s 5.7 cents a a mile, 1.3

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