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PostSeptember 30, 2025

Responding to the climate impact of generative AI

“We are on a path where the effects of climate change won’t be fully known until it is too late to do anything about it,” says Jennifer Turliuk MBA ’25, who is working to help policymakers, scientists, and enterprises consider the multifaceted costs and benefits of generative AI. “This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to innovate and make AI systems less carbon-intense.”

PostAugust 22, 2025

Transforming boating, with solar power

A group of visitors sets off from the dock for a cruise around the Charles River. The Anita weighs about 2,800 pounds and can accommodate six passengers at a time.

PostMay 6, 2025

How can India decarbonize its coal-dependent electric power system?

MIT Energy Initiative

India has pledged to reduce its carbon emissions, a difficult task as the country’s electric power system relies on many coal-burning power plants. While some of the plants are fuel-efficient (right), many more are not (left). MITEI researchers have explored and clarified India’s decarbonization options and have posted their methods and results for use by other countries in the midst of similar energy transitions.

PostDecember 20, 2024

In Sweden, broad consensus on climate action spurs an energy transition in ...

The main debate in Sweden is not whether to build more zero-carbon energy sources, but rather, which ones.

PostDecember 13, 2024

What will it take for the American steel industry to go ‘fossil-free’?

At HYBRIT's fossil-free steel plant in Luleå, Sweden, hydrogen made with renewable electricity turns reddish iron ore pellets, left, into grey pellets of sponge iron, which are ready to be melted down and made into steel.

PostDecember 11, 2024

In Sweden, companies are cleaning up steel production — one of the world'...

PodcastNovember 20, 2024

Making the case for climate optimism

MIT Energy Initiative

Illustrations of energy infrastructure and type saying Making the case for climate optimism.

PostOctober 2, 2024

Choosing Climate Policies in a Second-best World with Incomplete Markets

MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research

PostJuly 25, 2024

A recipe for zero-emissions fuel: Soda cans, seawater, and caffeine

MIT engineers Aly Kombargi (left) and Niko Tsakiris (right) work on a new hydrogen reactor, designed to produce hydrogen gas by mixing aluminum pellets with seawater.

PostMay 16, 2024

Elaine Liu: Charging ahead

MIT Energy Initiative

With a double major in mathematics and electrical engineering and computer science, Elaine Siyu Liu is interested in distribution — how to get electricity from a centralized location to consumers.

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