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PostMay 27, 2025

New fuel cell could enable electric aviation

MIT News
An H-cell modified with electrodes and an ion-conducting ceramic membrane to conduct sodium-air fuel cell experiments.
PostJune 26, 2023

MIT climate and sustainability interns consider aviation emissions and clim...

MIT International Science and Technology Initiatives (MISTI)
Around 90 MIT students were asked to calculate the carbon footprint of their flight to their MISTI destination and to compare the results to other common daily activities.
PostJune 23, 2023

Panel addresses technologies needed for a net-zero future

MIT Energy Initiative
During the MIT Energy Initiative’s panel on energy innovation for a net-zero future, Senior Research Scientist Anuradha Annaswamy (center) and other speakers addressed areas where new or improved technologies or systems are needed to achieve global net-zero emissions goals.
PostJune 8, 2023

Megawatt electrical motor designed by MIT engineers could help electrify av...

MIT News
MIT aeroengineers are creating a 1-megawatt electrical motor that is a stepping stone toward electrifying commercial airliners. Pictured are some industrial concepts for hybrid-electric aircraft.
PostJuly 12, 2021

MIT Alumni Roadmap for Responding to Climate Change

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Roadmap Graphic for Climate Action
PostJanuary 14, 2021

Concept for a hybrid-electric plane may reduce aviation’s air pollution p...

MIT News
A proposed hybrid-electric plane could “eliminate aviation’s air pollution problem,” say MIT engineers.
PostJune 14, 2020

From delayed deceleration to Zooming

MIT News
“I knew the science was sound, I knew the math was sound, but even when everything is going as planned and you are actually seeing it happening with your own eyes, it’s still surreal,” says Jacqueline Thomas PhD ’20 on watching a Boeing 777 commercial airplane land using an approach she designed as an MIT grad student.
PodcastMarch 20, 2019

E1: TIL about planes

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PostMarch 6, 2019

Is MIT addicted to air travel?

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