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PostApril 21, 2022

Given what we know, how do we live now?

MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

Circular ripples in a pond

PostApril 13, 2022

A new heat engine with no moving parts is as efficient as a steam turbine

A thermophotovoltaic (TPV) cell (size 1 cm x 1 cm) mounted on a heat sink designed to measure the TPV cell efficiency. To measure the efficiency, the cell is exposed to an emitter and simultaneous measurements of electric power and heat flow through the device are taken.

PostApril 8, 2022

New England renewables + Canadian hydropower

MIT Energy Initiative

“Hydropower is a more-than-hundred-year-old technology, and plants are already built up north,” says Emil Dimanchev SM ’18. “We might not need to build something new. We might just need to use those plants differently or to a greater extent.”

PostMarch 18, 2022

Q&A: Latifah Hamzah ’12 on creating sustainable solutions in Malaysia and...

MIT Energy Initiative

Latifah Hamzah ’12 is working to find sustainable water and sanitation solutions for the developing world.

PostMarch 11, 2022

How to clean solar panels without water

Dust that accumulates on solar panels is a major problem, but washing the panels uses huge amounts of water. MIT engineers have now developed a waterless cleaning method to remove dust on solar installations in water-limited regions, improving overall efficiency.

PostMarch 10, 2022

Q&A: Randolph Kirchain on how cool pavements can mitigate climate change

MIT Concrete Sustainability Hub

Concrete is one of several cool pavement designs. MIT CSHub has found that cool pavements can benefit cities year-round.

PostMarch 9, 2022

Using nature’s structures in wooden buildings

MIT Energy Initiative

MIT researchers aim to support the circular economy of materials by “upcycling” discarded tree forks and other waste materials.

PostMarch 8, 2022

Toward batteries that pack twice as much energy per pound

These discs were used for testing the researchers’ processing method for solid-electrolyte batteries. On the left, a sample of the solid electrolyte itself, a material known as LLPO. At center, the same material coated with the cathode material used in their tests. At right, the LLPO material with a coating of gold, used to facilitate measuring its electrical properties.

PostMarch 7, 2022

MIT Center for Real Estate launches the Asia Real Estate Initiative

Department of Urban Studies and Planning MIT

Bejing, China

PostFebruary 25, 2022

Progress toward a sustainable campus food system

MIT Office of Sustainability

The Launchpad, a nonprofit food business incubator created in partnership with CommonWealth Kitchen (CWK), debuted this fall in the second-floor Lobdell Food Court.

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