Built Environment & Infrastructure

U.S. solar and wind projects stalled in Q2. What happened?

Canary Media    ·    August 1, 2022

Clean energy projects have slowed down this year despite projected growth. John Reilly, co-director emeritus at MIT’s Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, notes that tax-credit deadlines last year could have incentivized companies to front-load their deployment efforts.

Can this MIT metallurgist clean up copper production?

Popular Science    ·    May 24, 2022

Copper is an essential component in the clean energy transition, but purifying it is an incredibly carbon-intensive process. Antoine Allanore (Materials Science and Engineering) has devised a new, fossil fuel-free method that employs electrolysis to separate copper from ore.

MIT engineers build load-bearing structures using tree forks instead of steel joints

dezeen    ·    May 5, 2022

Caitlin Mueller (Architecture) and her Digital Structures research team have developed an approach to replace load-bearing joints in construction with discarded tree forks.