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PostJanuary 10, 2025

Minimizing the carbon footprint of bridges and other structures

Before coming to MIT, 2024 MAD Design Fellow Zane Schemmer, who grew up in the mountains of Utah, earned a BS and MS in civil and environmental engineering from the University of California at Berkeley, where his graduate work focused on seismic design.

PostDecember 25, 2024

How Utah’s Christmas Festival has buoyed a changing coal community

Residents and visitors watch as the city float drives by in the annual light parade in Helper, Utah.

PostDecember 23, 2024

Utah’s coal mines can’t find enough workers

Dillion Grimmett, a coal miner who works at Gentry, sits in the mine’s main office entryway.

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

Enabling a circular economy in the built environment

MIT Climate & Sustainability Consortium

Concrete waste accounts for the majority of construction and demolition debris, representing over 60 percent of the total volume of more than 600 million tons in 2018.

PostDecember 11, 2024

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

PostDecember 4, 2024

A new catalyst can turn methane into something useful

MIT chemical engineers designed a two-part catalyst that can convert methane gas to useful products. The catalyst consists of iron-modified aluminum silicate plus an enzyme called alcohol oxidase (enzyme not pictured).

PostNovember 26, 2024

Decarbonizing heavy industry with thermal batteries

The electrically conductive firebricks could help hard-to-decarbonize sectors utilize renewable energy for the first time.

PodcastNovember 25, 2024

How to speed up the energy transition

MIT Energy Initiative

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