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PostApril 29, 2021

China’s transition to electric vehicles

MIT Energy Initiative

“The benefits appear to be the same order of magnitude as the costs,” says I-Yun Lisa Hsieh PhD ’20 of China’s transition to electric vehicles. “It’s so close that we need to be careful to get the numbers right.”

PostApril 5, 2021

Negative emissions, positive economy

MIT Center for Sustainability Science and Strategy

The BECCS supply chain: biomass cultivation and harvest (left), biomass energy use (center) and CO2 storage (right). (Source: Carbon Brief)

PostMarch 29, 2021

Powering the energy transition with better storage

MIT Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering

Exploring different scenarios and variables in the storage design space, researchers find the parameter combinations for innovative, low-cost long-duration energy storage to potentially make a large impact in a more affordable and reliable energy transition.

PostMarch 26, 2021

Cooling homes without warming the planet

The startup Transaera is using a class of materials called metal organic frameworks, or MOFs, to create air conditioners that could have five times less impact on the climate when compared to traditional ACs.

PostJanuary 26, 2021

Unravelling carbon uptake in concrete pavements

MIT Concrete Sustainability Hub

A model developed at MIT suggests that a natural carbon uptake process in concrete could offset 5 percent of the CO2 emissions generated from the cement used in U.S. pavements.

PostJanuary 14, 2021

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

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

PostDecember 18, 2020

Making smart thermostats more efficient

A diagram from a new paper describing a smart thermostat shows the interaction of weather conditions, control systems, sensors, and learning algorithms to optimize microclimates in buildings.

PodcastDecember 14, 2020

Building technology

MIT Energy Initiative

PostDecember 1, 2020

3 Questions: Hessam AzariJafari on mitigating climate change with reflectiv...

MIT Concrete Sustainability Hub

Reflective pavements could reduce the frequency of heat waves in Chicago by around 30 percent over 20 years.

PostOctober 14, 2020

MIT.nano receives LEED Platinum certification

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