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PodcastJune 12, 2025

E7: Cleaner air

TILclimate Podcast

PostJune 3, 2025

Study shows making hydrogen with soda cans and seawater is scalable and sus...

MIT engineers have developed a new aluminum-based process to produce hydrogen gas, that they are testing on a variety of applications, including an aluminum-powered electric vehicle, pictured here.

PodcastMay 29, 2025

E6: Dealing with dead batteries

TILclimate Podcast

PostMay 22, 2025

A new approach could fractionate crude oil using much less energy

$MIT engineers developed a membrane, pictured, that filters the components of crude oil by their molecular size, an advance that could dramatically reduce the amount of energy needed for crude oil fractionation.$

PostMay 22, 2025

Decarbonizing steel is tough as steel

MIT Center for Sustainability Science and Strategy

Large industrial equipment for steelmaking.

PostMay 14, 2025

Drug injection device wins MIT $100K Competition

In addition to the $100,000 grand prize awarded to CoFlo, a $50,000 second-place prize was awarded to Haven, a $5,000 third-place prize to Aorta Scope, and a $5,000 audience choice award to Flood Dynamics.

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.

PostMay 5, 2025

New tool evaluates progress in reinforcement learning

“We got interested a few years ago in the question, is there something that automated vehicles could do here in terms of mitigating emissions,” says MIT Professor Cathy Wu. “Is it a drop in the bucket, or is it something to think about?”

PodcastApril 24, 2025

Removing fossil fuels from industrial processes

MIT Energy Initiative

PostApril 11, 2025

Hundred-year storm tides will occur every few decades in Bangladesh, scient...

For the coastal country of Bangladesh, once-in-a-century storm tides could strike every 10 years — or more often — by the end of the century, scientists report. In this photo, a Bangladeshi woman and child walk over the top of a sandbag embankment in Khulna on May 4, 2019.

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