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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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MARCH 13, 2023

Eni and Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS), a spin-out of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) signed a Collaboration Framework Agreement with the aim of accelerating the industrialization of fusion energy. Eni made its first investment into CFS in 2018 and is a significant shareholder.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Establishing a presence at Stord Energy House provides Amogy with new opportunities to test and demonstrate its platform as well as access to collaborative opportunities with industry partners pursuing similar and supplemental projects. The company’s investors include Amazon’s Climate Pledge Fund, AP Ventures, SK, Saudi Aramco and DCVC.

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MAY 2, 2014

King Assistant Professor of Metallurgy at MIT, is proposing a direct sulfide electrolysis process to simplify copper extraction and eliminate noxious byproducts. Experience in the aluminum industry shows that it is actually fairly cheap to make the electrolysis device, Allanore said. Antoine Allanore, the Thomas B. Sadoway, John F.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2024

NRL did some interesting stuff with Nexi robots from MIT and made their own videos. MIT CSAIL ] Large industrial asset operators increasingly use robotics to automate hazardous work at their facilities. MIT CSAIL ] Large industrial asset operators increasingly use robotics to automate hazardous work at their facilities.

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MARCH 29, 2024

Now, an MIT spin-off says it has found a solution in an innovative technology that could dramatically reduce the costs and timelines of drilling to fantastic depths. Although Wostov is credited as a founder of Quaise, he says he has no financial stake in the company—unlike MIT. Quaise Energy , based in Cambridge, Mass.,

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FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Researchers from MIT and the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research have devised a way to boost significantly isobutanol production in yeast by engineering isobutanol synthesis to take place entirely within mitochondria. Metabolic engineering of cytoplasmic biosynthetic pathways to create industrial strains of S.

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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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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 study found that there are significant global supplies of conventional gas.

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MAY 25, 2011

A report from MIT and The University of Texas at Austin urges the US to accelerate efforts to pursue carbon capture and storage (CCS) in combination with enhanced oil recovery (EOR), a practice that could increase domestic oil production while significantly curbing emissions of carbon dioxide. Schematic of a CO 2. EOR System.

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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). We may not see a strong CO 2 price signal for many years. Such plants make up less than half of the existing fleet. Summary of symposium report.

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OCTOBER 22, 2021

DARPA SubT ] A new control system, designed by researchers in MIT's Improbable AI Lab and demonstrated using MIT's robotic mini cheetah, enables four-legged robots to traverse across uneven terrain in real-time. [ NASA ] What if you could have 100x more information about your industrial sites? SofTech-Rehab ].

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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.

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AUGUST 14, 2017

The semi-solid thick electrode is a material science innovation originating in Dr. Yet-Ming Chiang’s lab at MIT. (Dr. Development of a manufacturing facility requires access to a suitable industrial site, supply chain infrastructure, and a skilled and technologically-literate workforce. Earlier post.).

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Tesla and Volkswagen have also expanded their exports from China, which of course leverages the country’s cheaper supply chain to their advantage. But behind the scenes “is a struggling overall economy that many economists say could see even greater waste down the road because of the state-led industrial drive,” she said.

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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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OCTOBER 26, 2012

Launched in 2006 with BP as the inaugural founding member, the MITEI conducts multidisciplinary research aimed at tackling complex energy challenges such as increasing energy supply, improving efficiency, and addressing environmental impacts of energy consumption.

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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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JANUARY 9, 2013

The DOE’s 2011 Critical Materials Strategy reported that supply challenges for five rare earth metals (dysprosium, terbium, europium, neodymium, and yttrium) may affect clean energy technology deployment in the coming years. Earlier post.). SpinTek Filtration, Inc.; Advanced Recovery; Cytec, Inc.; Molycorp, Inc.; and Simbol Materials.

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JULY 2, 2012

However, currently all of these are tied to a simple 12V on-board power supply. The car of today has to step-up from a simple 12 Volt on-board power supply to 42V or a proposed 48V power-net, in order to support all new systems and applications for enhanced performance, thereby demanding a massive investment across the entire ecosystem.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2023

If one thing has become eminently clear over the past three years, it is the fact that the supply chains that bring us everything from cars to surgical masks are incredibly delicate and, further, can benefit from numerous points of origin. This project is a great transformation driver and a job engine for a traditionally industrial region.

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AUGUST 3, 2014

Floating NPPs can provide a reliable power supply not only to remote settlements, for example, in the Far North and Far East regions, but also to large industrial facilities such as oil platforms. They might be connected to coastal infrastructure or float next to consumer. Aliev, CEO of Rusatom Overseas. The Akademik Lomonosov.

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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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MARCH 27, 2022

million microfilmed pages back to the United States, along with almost 200 tonnes of German industrial equipment. As a result, the 1950s and ’60s saw a renaissance for magnetic amplifiers, during which they were used extensively in the military, aerospace, and other industries. engineers were soon able to reproduce those alloys.

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MARCH 7, 2011

Transphorm says that its solutions cut energy waste by 20% and simplify the design and manufacturing of a wide variety of electrical systems and devices, including motor drives, power supplies and inverters for solar panels and electric vehicles. Perreault, MIT). At APEC, startup Transphorm Inc. motor drives). —Primit Parikh.

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AUGUST 28, 2013

founded in 2009 out of MIT ( earlier post ), is an emerging technology company headquartered working to develop the first fully active, regenerative suspension for the automotive, trucking, mass transit, and defense industries. Levant Power Corp., This effect is most powerful when the vehicle is traveling on poor quality country roads.

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AUGUST 10, 2021

He earned a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute, now Virginia Tech, and received a master's degree in industrial management as a Sloan Fellow at MIT. He was a trustee of Randolph-Macon Woman's College , in Lynchburg, Va. He also was a member of the IEEE–Eta Kappa Nu honor society.

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JULY 14, 2022

IEEE RICHARD HAROLD KAUFMANN AWARD Sponsor: IEEE Industry Applications Society EWALD F. NEWELL POWER ELECTRONICS AWARD Sponsor: IEEE Power Electronics Society DRAGAN MAKSIMOVIC University of Colorado at Boulder “For contributions to digital control, modeling, and topologies of switched-mode power supplies.” IEEE DONALD O.

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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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JANUARY 20, 2017

MIT engineers have genetically engineered strains of the oleaginous yeast Yarrowia lipolytica to boost the production of lipids by about 25% compared to previously engineered yeast strains. Lipids, specifically fatty-acid-derived lipids, are important feedstocks for the fuel and oleo-chemical industries.

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OCTOBER 12, 2015

Researchers at the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change have compared the worldwide economic, environmental, and energy impacts of currently planned fuel economy standards (extended to the year 2050) with those of region-specific carbon prices designed to yield identical CO 2 emissions reductions. Karplus, Valerie J.;

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APRIL 30, 2010

The project includes genetic modifications of bacteria that metabolize carbon dioxide, oxygen, and hydrogen to produce butanol; development of an industrially scalable bioreactor system; and a novel approach to recovery of butanol from the bioreactor. The project also will develop a chemical method to transform butanol into jet fuel.

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JANUARY 17, 2011

A recent white paper by Leslie Bromberg of MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center and Wai K. There is a very large potential supply of methanol since it can be made from natural gas, coal and biomass feedstocks. Methanol can readily be made from natural gas or coal (there is plentiful supply in. use could be developed.

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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. —Tucker Perkins.

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MAY 15, 2021

NREL working with industrial partners (Genomatica and DeNora) will develop a biorefining concept that uses electrochemically generated formate as a universal energy carrier to facilitate a carbon optimized sugar assimilation fermentation to synthesize fatty acid methyl esters (FAME) without release of CO 2. University of California, Davis.

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JUNE 22, 2015

Together, our inventions achieve what lithium-ion has yet to do—meet the ultra-low cost targets of the grid and transportation industries. The semisolid thick electrode is a material science innovation originating in Dr. Chiang’s lab at MIT. Chiang was also a co-founder of A123 Systems; 24M originated as an A123 spinout.

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MARCH 11, 2023

By the 1950s, the grid was moving electricity across time zones and national borders, tying in diverse sources of supply and demand. Batteries, by contrast, respond nearly instantaneously to commands to draw or supply power. And the auto industry had just canceled the battery EV.

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