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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 6, 2025

Startup helps farmers grow plant-based feed and fertilizer using wastewater...

A machine helps with the growth of the aquatic plant Lemna.

PostMay 6, 2025

Experts say composting is the best solution to landfills. Where does Housto...

Leo Brito, Founder of Zero Waste Houston, dumps wood chips during a composting class.

PostMay 5, 2025

Houston's trash problem is only getting worse. What will it take to get it ...

An overhead view of the McCarty Road Landfill from Angela Jackson's neighborhood on March 15, 2025, in Houston.

PostApril 11, 2025

The Science of the City: Composting, the fertile solution to food waste

Two people stand in front of a large machine at a compost processing facility in Maryland.

PostMarch 17, 2025

The Science of the City: A landfill full of food is a recipe for methane

Earthmoving equipment on a landfill site

PodcastFebruary 26, 2025

The reality of capturing carbon

MIT Energy Initiative

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PostJanuary 12, 2025

Designing tiny filters to solve big problems

“I would love to see a world where we could eliminate thermal separations, and where heat is no longer a problem in creating the things that we need and producing the energy that we need,” Zachary Smith says.

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 4, 2024

A new catalyst can turn methane into something useful

MIT chemical engineers designed a two-part catalyst that can convert methane gas to useful products. The catalyst consists of iron-modified aluminum silicate plus an enzyme called alcohol oxidase (enzyme not pictured).

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