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OCTOBER 7, 2010

Sun Catalytix Corporation (Sun Catalytix), an energy storage and renewable fuels company ( earlier post ), completed a $9.5-million 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.

Land Rover

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JANUARY 25, 2018

A new metal mesh membrane developed by researchers at MIT could advance the use of the Na–NiCl 2 displacement battery, which has eluded widespread adoption owing to the fragility of the ?"-Al through the MIT Energy Initiative. Al 2 O 3 membrane. A paper describing the development is published in the journal Nature Energy.

MIT

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JANUARY 26, 2010

The SAB is chaired by John Deutch, Institute Professor at MIT, whose government experience includes service as Director of Energy Research and Undersecretary of the Department of Energy, and Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition and Technology. Earlier post.). —John Deutch.

Water

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JANUARY 9, 2013

Many materials deemed critical by the DOE are used in modern clean energy technologies—such as wind turbines, solar panels, electric vehicles, and energy-efficient lighting. Earlier post.). Earlier post.). In recent years, DOE and others have scaled up work to address these challenges.

Universal

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FEBRUARY 1, 2011

The partnership enhances Milbank’s PowerGen line of renewable power solutions and furthers the expansion of EV charging infrastructure throughout the United States. Training will focus on all of Milbank’s renewable solutions, including EV charging, backup power systems, and small wind turbines.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

National Renewable. for High Power Wind Generators The University of Houston will develop a new, low-cost. superconducting wire that can be used in future advanced wind turbine generators. used to make a wind turbine generator lighter, more powerful, and more efficient. superconducting wind generators more practical for.

Energy

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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. Flexible Oxy-Fuel Combustion for High-Penetration Variable Renewables - $717,658.

Carbon

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MARCH 5, 2010

The new plasma gasification facility will complement the landfill site's other renewable energy production. Waste Management began generating renewable electricity at the site in January 2010 with the startup of a new landfill gas-to-energy (LFGTE) facility.

Waste

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JUNE 25, 2010

Last year, GE started wind tunnel testing with NASA to evaluate counter-rotating fan systems for an open rotor engine. Honeywell will be working with Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation, a division of General Dynamics Corporation, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in this contract. Pratt & Whitney.

Engine

Cars That Think

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Our readers wanted to know more about power beaming , new kinds of nuclear fusion, vertical solar farms, powerful ways to drill deeper into the Earths crust to harness geothermal energy, and grid hardware that connects renewable energy projects. National Renewable Energy Lab. Whats the Delay with Perovskite Solar Cells?

Energy

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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. Earlier post.). Earlier post.) Reducing equivalent: Hydrogen; Organism: Cupriavidus necator; Product: Biodiesel. per gallon.

Carbon

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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.

Charging

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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.

Clean

Plugs and Cars

APRIL 5, 2008

Imagine for a moment that the world had rejected wind and solar energy, and instead decided to wait for a hydrogen fusion research program to reach fruition. Fortunately for the world, wind and solar are growing rapidly, while hydrogen fusion research remains speculative at best. He graduated from MIT in 1978 (B.S.

Hydrogen

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NOVEMBER 28, 2012

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) will develop a. deployed remotely, MIT’s reformer could be used for small, remote sources of gas. would supply the growing market of wind turbine generators and. copper and insulation layer by layer, instead of winding wires. This process. Massachusetts. Institute of.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

The discovery came when MIT researchers Byoungwoo Kang and Gerbrand Ceder found out how to get a common lithium compound to release and take up lithium ions in a matter of seconds. 7 Uncle B said on April 14th, 2009 at 10:17 am This battery is going to absorb peaks from wind-turbines, hitherto dumped to prevent damage to lines!

MIT

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

In 1967, MIT professor. And by the early 1980s renewed enthusiasm brought a heyday for researchers in symbolic AI, who received acclaim and funding for " expert systems " that encoded the knowledge of a particular discipline, such as law or medicine. In the late 1980s, the cold winds of commerce brought on the second AI winter.

Future

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DECEMBER 20, 2009

One such potential complementary technology for addressing the knock challenge, Kapp said, is the ethanol boosting system Ford has been exploring with MIT. I think we all agree now that HCCI is still in research mode. —Dan Kapp. Earlier post.).

Fuel Economy

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FEBRUARY 12, 2018

These projects were selected under an Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) Advanced Manufacturing Office funding opportunity, focused on advanced materials, advanced processes, and modeling and analysis tools for materials and manufacturing. Idaho National Laboratory. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 1,893,941.

Manufacturer

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OCTOBER 30, 2024

But the innovators hope that the boom in data centers—and in associated infrastructure such as new nuclear reactors and offshore wind farms , where each turbine foundation can use up to 7,500 cubic meters of concrete—may finally push green cement and concrete beyond labs, startups, and pilot plants. We want our homes to last 1,000 years.”

Portland

Blink Charging

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

The upstream, “well to wheel” emissions of the EV are linked to electricity generation and the electrical grid, with lower emissions in regions that use more renewable energy sources. As one MIT report found, on average, “a fully electric vehicle emits about 25 percent less carbon than a comparable hybrid car.”

Carbon

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

MIT researchers have found that changing the pH of the system can increase the lifetimes of a range of technologies including fuel cells. In the electrolysis mode, electricity from, say, the wind, can be used to generate storable fuel such as methane or hydrogen. They can also be made without using costly metals like platinum.

MIT

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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.

MIT

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NOVEMBER 20, 2023

—Jesse Jenkins, Princeton University When I entered the field, commercial wind was starting to scale up and the questions were about engineering feasibility. What was the maximum share of wind that we could have in the system without blowing it up—5 percent or 20 percent or 30 percent? So when I went to MIT to do my Ph.D.,

Clean

Cars That Think

MARCH 27, 2022

A second wire also wrapped around the core forms a control winding. The control winding includes many turns of wire, so by passing a relatively small direct current through it, the iron core can be forced into or out of saturation. After winding, the module was annealed in hydrogen at 1,100 °C for 2 hours and then rapidly cooled.

Wind

Cars That Think

MAY 12, 2023

A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , he also was a Fellow of the American Physical Society and a member of the MIT board of trustees. Today solar is the third largest renewable-electricity sector behind hydropower and wind. He retired five years later as AT&T’s vice chairman and chief financial officer.

Solar

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

One wonders if the recent headway at MIT in building lithium ion cells using ?virus? If our country is going to spend money like a drunk sailor we should have spent it on building renewable energy power plants like Wind and Geothermal. Forget the black helicopter conspiracies. Interesting in any case.

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