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APRIL 9, 2019

In a paper being presented at WCX SAE World Congress Experience in Detroit this week, a team from MIT is proposing the use of a flex-fuel gasoline-alcohol engine approach for a series-hybrid powertrain for long-haul Class 8 trucks. The research was supported by the MIT Arthur Samberg Energy Innovation Fund. and Bromberg, L.

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MAY 12, 2010

Daniel Nocera and his associates have found another formulation, based on inexpensive and widely available materials, that can efficiently catalyze the splitting of water molecules using electricity. Earlier post.). Earlier post.). Materials for the new catalyst are even more abundant and inexpensive than those required for the first.

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APRIL 25, 2013

Researchers at MIT are proposing using a variation on pumped hydroelectric systems for storage of electricity produced by offshore wind farms. Geologic pumped hydroelectric storage works by pumping water to a reservoir behind a dam when electricity demand is low. Earlier post.).

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

Researchers at MIT have improved a proposed liquid battery system that could enable renewable energy sources to compete with conventional power plants. The fact that we don’t need a mountain, and we don’t need lots of water, could give us a decisive advantage. Earlier post.). —Donald Sadoway.

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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. aligned with the low-cost systems engineering and. Reece et al. Click to enlarge.

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APRIL 12, 2010

A team of MIT researchers, led by Dr. Angela Belcher, has engineered a common bacteriophage virus (M13) to function as a scaffold to mediate the co-assembly of zinc porphyrins (photosensitizer) and iridium oxide hydrosol clusters (catalyst) for visible light-driven water oxidation. Source: Nam et al., Supplementary materials.

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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.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2017

MIT researchers have developed a new system that could potentially be used for converting power plant emissions of carbon dioxide into carbon monoxide, and thence into useful fuels for cars, trucks, and planes, as well as into chemical feedstocks for a wide variety of products. Ghoniem’s lab is exploring some of these options.

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MARCH 14, 2012

a company that has developed a low-cost hybrid electric powertrain designed specifically for class 1-3 commercial fleet use ( earlier post ), will display a Chevrolet Express 2500 cargo van fitted with the company’s hybrid technology at the 2012 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Energy Conference Energy Showcase on 16 March.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

MIT researchers have found a new family of highly active catalyst materials that provides the best performance yet in the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) in electrochemical water-splitting—a key requirement for energy storage and delivery systems such as advanced fuel cells and lithium-air batteries. Grimaud et al.

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MARCH 30, 2014

The MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI) announced its latest round of seed grants to support early-stage innovative energy projects. Past themes have included topics as diverse as the role of big data and the energy-water nexus. A total of more than $1.6 million was awarded to 11 projects, each lasting up to two years.

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APRIL 11, 2012

Researchers at MIT, led by associate professor of mechanical engineering Kripa Varanasi, say they have found a solution, described recently in the RSC journal Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. — Methane hydrates can freeze upon contact with cold water in the deep ocean, are a chronic problem for deep-sea oil and gas wells.

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OCTOBER 28, 2011

A team of MIT researchers lead by Prof. John Goodenough from the University of Texas as Austin, has found one of the most effective catalysts yet discovered for the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) for use in water-splitting to produce hydrogen or in rechargeable metal-air batteries. Yang Shao-Horn, in collaboration with Prof.

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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.

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JANUARY 21, 2024

Researchers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( MIT ), including one of Indian-origin, have designed a new battery material that could offer a more sustainable, cobalt-free way to power electric cars. Keck Professor of Energy at MIT. Automaker Lamborghini has licensed the patent on the technology.

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AUGUST 5, 2015

A team of researchers at MIT and Tsinghua University has developed a high-rate, high-capacity and long-lived anode for Li-ion batteries comprising a yolk-shell nanocomposite of aluminum core (30 nm in diameter) and TiO 2 shell (~3 nm in thickness), with a tunable interspace (Al@TiO 2 , or ATO). Earlier post.). —Li et al.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2012

Algae have the potential to produce large volumes of fuel per unit area of production on marginal lands using saline water unsuitable for food crops. Thus, algal biofuels could expand transportation energy supplies, without significantly displacing land and water resources that would otherwise have been used for food production.

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MAY 14, 2020

GEMINA’s goal is to reduce fixed operations and maintenance (O&M) costs from ~13 $/MWh in the current fleet to ~2 $/MWh in the advanced fleet. These projects will work to develop digital twin technology to reduce O&M costs in the next generation of nuclear power plants. —ARPA-E Director Lane Genatowski.

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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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JUNE 19, 2014

Researchers at MIT and King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM) in Saudi Arabia have devised a robotic system that can detect leaks in gas, oil and water pipelines at a rapid pace and with high accuracy by sensing a large pressure change at leak locations. Top ]: Solid model side view of Leak Detector.

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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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DECEMBER 3, 2009

MIT researchers are proposing a novel electricity generation process using natural gas and solid oxide fuel cells at high electrical efficiency (74%HHV) with zero atmospheric emissions. The research was partly funded from the BP-MIT Conversion Research Program. A paper on their work is in press in the Journal of Power Sources.

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MAY 30, 2010

MIT researchers used modified M13 bacteriophages as templates to assemble noble metal allow nanowires for Li-ion anode materials. An MIT team including Drs. Credit: ACS, Lee et al. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.). The M13 biological toolkit extended its utility for the study on the basic electrochemical property of materials”.

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JULY 15, 2020

Later in the program, teams that move to Phase 2 will focus on building components, unit operations, and prototype systems to reduce technical risks and costs. 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.

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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. Professor Ernest Moniz, director of the MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI). The primary focus of research and development for existing coal plants should be on cost reduction of post-combustion capture.

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AUGUST 17, 2021

John Deutch, an emeritus Institute Professor at MIT. Much of this is used to produce fertilizer and petrochemicals, and nearly all of it is considered “gray H2,” which costs only about $1 per kilogram to produce but comes with roughly 10 kilograms of CO 2 baggage per kilogram H 2.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Microfractures in metal alloys, though impossible to see with the naked eye, can easily spread when exposed to water or hydrogen and lead to major problems in structures such as bridges, electrochemical and nuclear plants and hydrogen storage containers, leading to failures and expensive repairs.

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DECEMBER 21, 2011

GMZ’s material, a nanostructured bismuth antimony telluride, was developed by researchers at Boston College and MIT. GMZ Energy is developing its first product for the $8 billion residential, commercial and industrial solar thermal water market.

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JANUARY 26, 2021

Researchers at MIT have developed a method that could significantly boost the performance of carbon capture and conversion systems that use catalytic surfaces to enhance the rates of carbon-sequestering electrochemical reactions. This output can help to subsidize the process, offsetting the costs of reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

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OCTOBER 7, 2010

Sun Catalytix is developing catalysts that use intermittent renewable energy, including solar and wind energy, to split water into storable hydrogen and oxygen—a process that mimics photosynthesis. —MIT Professor and Sun Catalytix Founder Daniel Nocera.

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AUGUST 3, 2014

Such a design, as described at the Small Modular Reactors Symposium by MIT professors Jacopo Buongiorno, Michael Golay, and Neil Todreas, along with others from MIT, the University of Wisconsin, and Chicago Bridge and Iron, could ride out tsunamis. For this new design, he says, “the biggest selling point is the enhanced safety.”.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2013

A new desalination process developed by engineers at MIT could treat produced water—deep water, often heavily laden with salts and minerals—from natural gas wells at relatively low cost. The research is the work of a team including MIT postdoc Prakash Narayan, mechanical engineering professor John H.

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MARCH 22, 2015

The new BLM rule establishes new requirements to ensure wellbore integrity, protect water quality, and enhance public disclosure of chemicals and other details of hydraulic fracturing operations. The result of this careful consultation is a rule that will enhance environmental protection in a thoughtful and cost-effective way.

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APRIL 4, 2024

The company explains what differentiates its battery technology on its website : While Alsym and lithium-ion cells may look similar, we take advantage of inherently non-flammable and non-toxic materials, and our electrolyte is water-based.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2019

To prevent the motor from overheating, the heat in the stator is currently conducted through a metal housing to a cooling sleeve filled with cold water. They also lend themselves to complex geometries without requiring post-processing, so we made some real savings on overall weight and cost. —Robert Maertens.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

The network has two unique features: 1) it allows for high capacitance (up to 400 F/g) energy storage in a simple film configuration without the need of high-surface-area nanostructures; 2) it is unstable in water, but becomes extremely stable in electrolyte with high ionic strength. Use of the membrane could also reduce the cost.

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JULY 15, 2023

Gretchen Ertl/CFS/MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center CFS, a startup spun out of decades of research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), is among the leaders of a new wave of fusion-energy projects that have emerged in the past decade, taking advantage of technological advances as well as a surge in private-sector investment.

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