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PostAugust 21, 2024

MIT engineers’ new theory could improve the design and operation of wind ...

MIT engineers’ new theory could improve the way turbine blades and wind farms are designed and how wind turbines are controlled.

PostAugust 19, 2024

More durable metals for fusion power reactors

MIT Energy Initiative

Based on theoretical and experimental studies, MIT engineers have shown that adding nanoparticles of certain ceramics to the metal walls of the vessel containing the reacting plasma inside a nuclear fusion reactor can protect the metal from damage, significantly extending its lifetime. Professor Ju Li (right) and postdoc So Yeon Kim (left) examine samples of the composite they have fabricated for their demonstrations.

PostAugust 7, 2024

Tracking emissions to help companies reduce their environmental footprint

“There’s an old adage: Unless you measure something, you can’t change it,” says Context Labs founder Dan Harple.

PostJuly 18, 2024

China-based emissions of three potent climate-warming greenhouse gases spik...

MIT Center for Sustainability Science and Strategy

Aluminum production in western China is a major source of PFC-14 and PFC-116 emissions, which contribute to global warming.

VideoDecember 7, 2023

Collaborative Climate Resilience: Industry & Academia Working Together to P...

MIT Climate & Sustainability Consortium

PostJuly 12, 2022

Tata Center: 10 Years of Sustained Impact

An Indian woman carries a solar panel developed by Khethworks, the first startup to emerge from the Tata Center.

PostApril 21, 2022

Given what we know, how do we live now?

MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

Circular ripples in a pond

PostApril 11, 2022

MIT announces five flagship projects in first-ever Climate Grand Challenges...

The winners of the first-ever Climate Grand Challenges (CGC) will become multi-year flagship research projects, helping define a new research agenda focused on addressing complex unsolved climate problems and bringing high-impact solutions to the world on an accelerated basis.

PostNovember 29, 2021

Timber or steel? Study helps builders reduce carbon footprint of truss stru...

A new analysis by MIT researchers could help architects and builders reduce the carbon footprint of truss structures, the crisscrossing struts that bolster bridges, towers, and buildings.

PostAugust 22, 2021

Countering climate change with cool pavements

MIT Concrete Sustainability Hub

By selecting optimal paving materials, it may be possible to cut emissions in Boston by up to 3 percent over 50 years.

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