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SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

How Atmospheric Water Harvesting Works The new hydrogel is more efficient in its uptake and release of water thanks to its structure, which pairs two distinct segments: a network of sites that absorb and store water and thermoreactive segments that help to release liquid water.

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JULY 15, 2020

FLECCS project teams will work to develop carbon capture and storage (CCS) processes that better enable technologies, such as natural gas power generators, to be responsive to grid conditions in a high variable renewable energy (VRE) penetration environment. The technology uses 10-15% less energy than existing amine absorbents.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2017

The new camera records the changes in light intensity between scenes at nanosecond intervals, much faster than conventional video, and it stores the images in a data format that is many times smaller as well. The CeleX sensor allows pixel-parallel image processing at the focal plane and event-driven readout.

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MARCH 9, 2010

Javad Rafiee, a doctoral student in the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, has developed a new graphene material for storing hydrogen at room temperature. Rafiee is the fourth recipient of the Lemelson-MIT Rensselaer Student Prize. Lemelson-MIT Collegiate Student Prizes.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2021

Our lab, the Responsive Environments Group at MIT, has been working for well over a decade on embedding distributed sensor networks into flexible substrates. As the ISS orbits Earth, and the local space environment changes, we'll be triggering our sensors with known excitations to measure how their sensitivity varies over time.

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DECEMBER 21, 2021

But the question of whether obtaining cobalt and other valuable metals from the ocean floor would help or hurt the environment overall is, in fact, quite complicated. Nodules will be separated from this slurry aboard the Hidden Gem , which will store them in its hold and discard what remains.

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APRIL 20, 2024

In 1965, Larry Roberts, then at the MIT Lincoln Laboratory , connected one computer in Massachusetts to another in California over a telephone line. Kahn postponed his planned return to MIT and continued to work on expanding this network. Bob Kahn served on the MIT faculty from 1964 to 1966. But Roberts asked Kahn to stay.

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JULY 22, 2023

VR headsets allow students to immerse themselves in realistic digital environments to learn math and science by solving real-world problems, such as calculating how high a house’s foundation should be raised to offset the risk of flooding. Thanks to Prisms of Reality , VR technology is being used in 140 school districts in 30 states.

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APRIL 30, 2010

This process is less than 1% efficient at converting sunlight to stored chemical energy. The aerobic microbe has been engineered at MIT and is capable of converting a variety of organic compounds into oil, from which biodiesel may be produced. The project also will develop a chemical method to transform butanol into jet fuel.

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MARCH 27, 2022

Mag amps thus found many applications in demanding environments, especially military, space, and industrial control. In the late 1940s, researchers immediately recognized the ability of the new magnetic materials to store data. A circular magnetic core could be magnetized counterclockwise or clockwise, storing a 0 or a 1.

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JUNE 24, 2013

The goal of this new center is to create a collaborative environment and concentration of technical capability to accelerate materials discovery and development, provide opportunities to transition new breakthroughs in advanced materials to industry, and offer training opportunities for young scientists and engineers.

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DECEMBER 8, 2010

Using TMV, the researchers can greatly increase the electrode surface area and its capacity to store energy and enable fast charge/discharge times. In parallel, we are collaborating with our colleagues at Drexel and MIT to construct surfaces that resemble the structure of plant leaves.

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MARCH 11, 2023

Electricity is a commodity that is bought and sold, and yet unlike most other commodities, it cannot easily be stored. Slutzky and other proponents of EV power have been pressing for a more favorable regulatory environment, including access to the subsidies that states such as California offer to users of stationary storage batteries.

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JUNE 4, 2022

The Open Environment and How It Changed PARC started with a small nucleus—perhaps fewer than 20 people. A memory capable of storing all the information for a single video frame; the contents of a frame buffer can be controlled by special software to produce or modify images. Nine came from the Berkeley Computer Corp., Frame buffer.

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APRIL 21, 2009

DaimlerChrysler has presented plug-in hybrids in commercial vans that have enough room to store the batteries, but the technology is not quite ripe for cars."Plug-in Cischke, Ford senior vice president for sustainability, environment and safety engineering. "By Does it make good business sense, and how does it affect the environment?"

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