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FEBRUARY 13, 2012

Well-to-wheel GHG estimates for palm hydrotreated renewable diesel (HRD) fuel, with and without direct LUC, and diesel fuel included to enable comparisons. In the accumulation cases, oil accumulated and stored in the algal cells is extracted from biomass that is harvested from the growth ponds. Credit: ACS, Vasudevan et al.

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JUNE 26, 2023

Corn-based ethanol was big for a while and the Germans have recently shown a renewed interest in carbon monoxide and hydrogen-based synthetic fuel stemming from the gasification of coal, biomass, and/or methane. It’s relatively energy intensive to produce and brutally difficult to store.

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AUGUST 16, 2013

MIT researchers have engineered a new rechargeable, membrane-less hydrogen bromine laminar flow battery with high power density. For applications that require the storage of large quantities of energy economically and efficiently, flow batteries have received renewed attention. Credit: Braff et al. Click to enlarge.

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AUGUST 20, 2020

Jing Li, an assistant professor in the MIT Sloan School of Management, aims to develop a model of consumer vehicle and travel choices based on data regarding travel patterns, electric vehicle (EV) charging demand, and EV adoption. —Jessika Trancik.

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AUGUST 17, 2021

John Deutch, an emeritus Institute Professor at MIT. However, it currently costs about 50% more than gray H 2 , not including the cost of developing the pipelines and sequestration systems needed to transport and store unwanted CO 2. He has served as Chairman of the Department of Chemistry, Dean of Science, and Provost.

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APRIL 12, 2015

Researchers at the Skoltech Center for Electrochemical Energy Storage (CEES), a partnership between the MIT Materials Processing Center and Lomonosov Moscow State University, are focusing on the development of higher capacity batteries. Chiang, MIT colleague W. Advanced Li-ion and multivalent ion batteries.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Renewable-fuels generation has emphasized water splitting to produce hydrogen and oxygen. Based on discoveries made earlier by Anthony Sinskey, professor of microbiology and of health sciences and technology at MIT, new pathways in the bacterium are metabolically engineered to make isopropanol. Earlier post.). eutropha , Re2133-pEG12.

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APRIL 22, 2016

These vehicles are the green machines that will provide a critical part of the renewable and sustainable society that we need for the future. [ That is, PHEVLERs can store electricity whenever sun and wind-generated electricity is plentiful, and then can send stored power back into the smart grid at times when more electric power is needed.

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APRIL 30, 2010

ARPA-E’s first solicitation awarded $151 million to 37 projects aimed at transformational innovations in energy storage, biofuels, carbon capture, renewable power, building efficiency, vehicles, and other areas. This process is less than 1% efficient at converting sunlight to stored chemical energy. Earlier post.). Earlier post.)

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NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Renewable propane. In addition to being an alternative fuel, Perkins noted, propane may also be able to be produced as a renewable fuel. Stored and transported like. As with natural gas vehicles, GHG levels associated with LPG are roughly comparable to those from diesel vehicles, the report notes.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 27, 2022

The arrival of this magnetic material in the United States led to renewed enthusiasm for magnetic amplifiers, which tolerated extreme conditions and didn’t burn out like vacuum tubes. In the late 1940s, researchers immediately recognized the ability of the new magnetic materials to store data. under the name Deltamax.

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MARCH 5, 2014

Researchers at MIT have devised a simple, soluble metal oxide system to capture and transform CO 2 into useful organic compounds. Ideally we’d like to develop carbon-neutral cycles for renewable energy, to get carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and avoid pollution. —Knopf et al.

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JUNE 24, 2013

The Vehicle Technologies Office within the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, in collaboration with NIST, will soon be announcing $3 million in new awards for its recent solicitation on advanced lightweight metals. MIT launching MOOC on innovation and commercialization of materials technologies.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 11, 2023

Electricity is a commodity that is bought and sold, and yet unlike most other commodities, it cannot easily be stored. Parts of this article are adapted from the author’s new book, Age of Auto Electric ( MIT Press, 2022). Once electricity is generated and passes into the grid, it is typically used almost immediately.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

production of oil, which is stored in seeds and is convertible to. is one of the most energy dense forms of stored energy in. engineer sugarcane and sorghum to produce and store oil, a. National Renewable. resulting in reduced cost for renewable solar electricity. Camelina will be engineered with. field trials.

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APRIL 12, 2017

ChargePoint’s stance is bolstered by a new MIT study that suggests , in part, that electric cars that plug into the grid, could, collectively, act as a massive “virtual battery” for grid energy storage. MIT: Utilities and the virtual battery. We need more power-system flexibility as renewable-generation penetration grows.

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OCTOBER 24, 2009

A separate paper published online in Science Express by researchers from the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole and MIT concludes that indirect land use change associated with global biofuels programs will be responsible for substantially more carbon loss (up to twice as much) than direct land use. issue of the journal Science.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2012

economical to store or transport. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) will develop a. deployed remotely, MIT’s reformer could be used for small, remote sources of gas. carbon atoms, to store energy at ten times greater density than. Supercapacitors store energy in a manner. Ceramatec, Inc. This process.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

The use of renewable and readily available solar energy reduces equipment costs and greenhouse gas emissions. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) will develop a comprehensive process to directly convert methane into a usable transportation fuel in a single step. Sunlight-Assisted Conversion of Methane to Butanol. 1,449,327.

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JUNE 4, 2022

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. The first personal computer developed in the United States is commonly thought to be the MITS Altair, which sold as a hobbyist’s kit in 1976. Frame buffer.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

One wonders if the recent headway at MIT in building lithium ion cells using ?virus? Then consider that in order to actually go any farther than the neighbood store, one still had to have ANOTHER car. So just use a portable electric generator in the trunk, from the hardware store to charge the batteries while you drive.

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