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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 14, 2024

MIT researchers use large language models to flag problems in complex syste...

The new method could someday help alert technicians to potential problems in equipment like wind turbines or satellites.

PostAugust 9, 2024

New tool empowers pavement life-cycle decision-making while reducing data c...

MIT Concrete Sustainability Hub

Despite their importance and impact, there are often scarce data for evaluating the environmental impact of roads across their whole life cycle, from producing raw materials through demolition. The MIT Concrete Sustainability Hub’s streamlined framework reduces the overall data collection burden by up to 85 percent.

PostAugust 9, 2024

With sustainable cement, startup aims to eliminate gigatons of CO₂

“Cement enabled civilization as we know it today, but now it needs to be reinvented,” says Sublime Systems co-founder Yet-Ming Chiang.

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.

PostJuly 3, 2024

How to increase the rate of plastics recycling

Researchers say this study is the first to look in detail at the interplay between public policies and the end-to-end realities of the packaging production and recycling market.

PostJuly 2, 2024

Pioneering the future of materials extraction

The SiTration team: (standing, from left to right) Tran Nguyen, Jatin Patil, Heeyun Choi Kim, Ahmed Helal, Noah Letwat, Daniel Bregante, and Sarah Melvin; (seated, left to right) Jeff Grossman, Morgan Baima, and Brendan Smith

PostJune 7, 2024

Improving working environments amid environmental distress

Namrata Kala, a professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management, often studies environmental problems and their effects on workers and firms.

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