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PostJanuary 3, 2025

At MIT, Clare Grey stresses battery development to electrify the planet

Dame Clare Grey, Royal Society research professor and the Geoffrey Moorhouse-Gibson Professor of Chemistry at Cambridge University, delivered the 2024 Mildred S. Dresselhaus Lecturer on Nov. 18.

PostDecember 13, 2024

In a unique research collaboration, students make the case for less e-waste...

Left to right: Anastasia Duncan, Chris Rabe, and Jasmin Liu stand at the loading dock of MIT's Stata Center, where students and faculty go "crufting." Rabe facilitated an interdisciplinary working group of undergraduate and graduate students known as SERC Scholars to co-author a case study on the electronic hardware waste life cycle and climate justice.

PostDecember 6, 2024

So you want to build a solar or wind farm? Here’s how to decide where.

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.

PostNovember 21, 2024

A nonflammable battery to power a safer, decarbonized future

Alsym has been manufacturing prototypes at a small facility in Woburn, Massachusetts for the last two years. Pictured is a view of the Alsym facility.

PodcastNovember 20, 2024

Making the case for climate optimism

MIT Energy Initiative

Illustrations of energy infrastructure and type saying Making the case for climate optimism.

PostNovember 13, 2024

MIT engineers make converting CO2 into useful products more practical

A conceptual schematic of the new woven electrode design. Researchers wove a series of conductive copper wires (the brown-orange pipe) through a very thin membrane to reach the catalyst.

PostNovember 4, 2024

Nanoscale transistors could enable more efficient electronics

Nanoscale 3D transistors made from ultrathin semiconductor materials can operate more efficiently than silicon-based devices, leveraging quantum mechanical properties to potentially enable ultra-low-power AI applications.

PostOctober 8, 2024

Solar-powered desalination system requires no extra batteries

Jon Bessette sits atop a trailer housing the electrodialysis desalination system at the Brackish Groundwater National Desalination Research Facility (BGNDRF) in Alamogordo, New Mexico. The system is connected to real groundwater, water tanks, and solar panels.

PostOctober 2, 2024

Choosing Climate Policies in a Second-best World with Incomplete Markets

MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research

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