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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.

PostFebruary 22, 2021

EAPS Professor Susan Solomon helped set the Doomsday Clock

MIT Department of Earth Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences

PostFebruary 10, 2021

Reductions in CFC-11 emissions put ozone recovery back on track

An aerial view of the Gosan Observatory, including the AGAGE station in Gosan, South Korea (lower left), which takes hourly measurements of more than 50 trace gases, including CFC-11.

PostJanuary 29, 2021

How will Covid-19 ultimately impact climate change?

MIT Center for Sustainability Science and Strategy

Assuming a return to pre-pandemic levels of employment by 2035, the study finds that Covid-19 produces a steep, 8.2 percent reduction in global GDP in 2020, but only a 2 percent reduction in 2035. Seen here: a Covid-19 center near Washington.

PostJanuary 28, 2021

3 Questions: Ernest Moniz on the future of climate and energy under the Bid...

MIT Energy Initiative

Ernest Moniz, professor emeritus post-tenure, special advisor to the MIT president, and founding director of the MIT Energy Initiative, answers three questions about what to expect from the Biden administration.

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 15, 2021

Climate change: Where we are, where we’re headed, what we can do

MIT Center for Sustainability Science and Strategy

Photo: Handle with care (Source: Flickr/Chanze photo a r t)

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

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