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Climate Change is NSF Engineering Alliance’s Top Research Priority

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During the virtual visioning event in December, experts explored solar and renewable energy, carbon sequestration, water management, and geoengineering. Sustainable transportation networks Planning has begun for the next visioning event, Sustainable Transportation Networks , to be held virtually on 2 and 3 November.

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ARPA-E to award $14.5M to 5 projects to reduce energy use for transportation

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) will develop and test a mobility market and information system to incentivize travelers to pursue specific routes, departure times, modes of travel, and vehicle types in order to reduce energy use. National Renewable Energy Laboratory. Mobility Electronic Market for Optimized Travel (MeMOT).

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Taking another look at methanol as an alternative transportation fuel for the US

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A recent white paper by Leslie Bromberg of MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center and Wai K. Sufficient feedstock of natural gas and coal exists to enable the use of non-renewable methanol as a transition fuel to renewable methanol from biomass, they suggested. The resulting transportation system could then be.