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Taiwan’s Innovative Green Economy Roadmap (TIGER)

The Future of Energy Storage

Chemical reactions for the energy transition

New insights reveal pathways to improvement

New England renewables + Canadian hydropower

A pathway to clean electricity in 2050

Using nature’s structures in wooden buildings

Tools for designing with forked tree branches

SESAME

Evaluating the impacts of the global energy system

Tracking emissions in China

Good news, some concerns

Making a remarkable material even better

Transparent aerogels for solar devices, windows

Manufacturing consumer products

A greener way to make raw materials

Renewable energy and carbon pricing policies

State-level adoption saves money and lives

Finding novel materials for practical devices

New machine learning technique can help

Removing CO2 from power plant exhaust

Combining capture and disposal

Protecting our energy infrastructure

New analysis targets cybersafety

Understanding how plants use sunlight

Possible pathway to more biomass and crops

Saving heat until you need it

A new concept for thermal energy storage

Accelerating 3D printing

Faster fabrication, renewable materials

The Future of Nuclear Energy in a Carbon-Constrained World

Getting the world off dirty diesels

Gasoline-alcohol engines for heavy-duty trucks

Fabrication of new materials

Designing “recipes” using artificial intelligence

Cooling buildings worldwide

Analysis points the way to energy-efficient systems

Quantum dot materials

Optimizing nanostructures for energy devices

State-level renewable energy policies

Strengthening critical public support

Making appliances—and energy grids—more efficient

Conserving energy with the ideal ceiling fan

Carbon-nanotube electrodes

Tailoring designs for energy storage, desalination

Reducing risk in power generation planning

Why including non-carbon options is key

Liquid tin-sulfur compound shows thermoelectric potential

Producing electricity from industrial waste heat

Better catalysts for energy storage devices

Providing a new understanding of catalysts

Limiting global warming

More aggressive measures are needed

Carbon Capture and Sequestration Technologies Program

Formation of Isoporous Free Volume Elements Using UV Acidolysis Reactions

Electrochemical manufacturing of methanol from carbon dioxide feedstocks

Cost-competitive electric vehicles that go the distance

Detailed look at 125 U.S. auto models

Converting greenhouse gas into fuel

New catalyst provides design principles for producing fuels from carbon dioxide emissions

Mobility of the Future

Deep borehole disposal of spent nuclear fuel

Low-cost energy storage and energy sink technologies

Fluoride salt-cooled high temperature reactors

Advanced modeling and simulation of neutronic and thermal-hydraulic behavior

On the Road toward 2050

Three paths forward for light-duty vehicles

CoalMap

A tool to map cost-competitiveness of coal & renewables

The Future of Solar Energy

Investigating carbon emissions in China

Can new policies curtail their growth?

Utility of the Future

Discarded car batteries

Recovering material for novel solar cells

A new look for nuclear power

Assessing climate impacts of energy technologies

A new accounting of methane’s role

Novel metallic gels that fluoresce

Color-coded sensors with a range of energy applications

Novel bromine battery

Developing a battery to harness intermittent renewables

Rural electrification

New models help electrify rural India

Underground storage of carbon dioxide

Towards a safer, more effective sequestration process

Nanowires and graphene

Keys to low-cost, flexible solar cells

Solar photovoltaic technologies

MIT researchers explore silicon and beyond

Regulating particulate pollution

Novel analysis yields new insights

Urban sustainability

Designing resource-efficient, appealing cities

Microgrid

A small-scale, flexible, reliable source of energy

The Future of the Electric Grid

The Future of Natural Gas

The Future of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle

Subsidies for clean energy

Designing incentives for green technology adoption

Energy-efficient air conditioning

Broad applications for new, low-cost porous materials

High-performance flywheels for energy storage

Compact, durable motors that don't overheat

Interconnections among energy, water, and food

The effects of water pumping in Pakistan's Indus Basin

Ultra-low-drag hydrodynamics

Decreasing drag at droplet level

Energy-efficient computing

Enabling smaller, lighter, faster computers

Theory of ultrafast li-ion battery materials

Explaining the high performance of a promising material

Building façades that move, textiles that illuminate

A pathway to flexible, resilient architecture

Lithium air batteries

New catalysts lead to unprecedented efficiency

Thermophotovoltaics

Enabling efficient energy generation

Batteryless energy harvester

Running electronics on body heat

Batteries from molten metals

Low-cost, long-lasting storage for the grid

Nano-structured alloys against corrosion in advanced nuclear plants

Understanding corrosion in power plants & other systems

The Future of Coal

The Future of Geothermal Energy

Public Awareness of Carbon Capture and Storage: A Survey of Attitudes toward Climate Change Mitigation

Sociopolitical Challenges to the Siting of Facilities with Perceived Environmental Risks

The Future of Nuclear Power

The Hawaii Carbon Dioxide Ocean Sequestration Field Experiment: A Case Study in Public Perceptions and Institutional Effectiveness

Publications

Modeling Impacts of Tracking on Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Photovoltaic Power

July 2019

Resilience of people and ecosystems under climate stress

June 2023

Clean electricity procurement for electrolytic hydrogen: A framework for determining time-matching requirements

April 2023

Related news

Roosevelt Project unveils policy report on iron and steel decarbonization

Active Surfaces raises $5.6 million to develop ‘solar 2.0’

pv magazine

MIT spinout Active Surfaces uses industrial roll-to-roll semiconductor printing technology to produce lightweight, flexible solar panels that can be integrated into virtually any surface.

U.S. startup plans perovskite solar factory

pv magazine

MIT spinout Swift Solar plans to build a factory in the United States to manufacture their thin-film solar photovoltaics.

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Professor
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
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Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
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Principal Research Scientist
Department of Mechanical Engineering
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Postdoctoral Associate
MIT Energy Initiative
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Chevron Professor of Chemical Engineering, emeritus, and Former Director
Department of Chemical Engineering; MIT Energy Initiative
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Technology and Policy Program
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Professor of the Practice
Sloan School of Management
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Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering
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Office of the Vice President for Research
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Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering
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Professor
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Senior Lecturer
Sloan School of Management
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Professor
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Plasma Science and Fusion Center
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MIT Energy Initiative
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Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering
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MIT Energy Initiative
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Chief Innovation and Strategy Officer, MIT
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Department of Materials Science and Engineering
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Former Postdoctoral Associate
MIT Energy Initiative
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Professor Emeritus
Department of Chemical Engineering
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Research Scientist
MIT Energy Initiative
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Professor
Department of Biological Engineering
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Former Director of Communications
MIT Energy Initiative
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Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
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Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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Director of Education
MIT Energy Initiative
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Department of Mechanical Engineering
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Professor
Department of Chemistry
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Professor
Department of Chemistry
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Post-doctoral Research Associate
MIT Energy Initiative
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Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering
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Project Advisor, Utility of the Future study
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Program Director, Asia Pacific Energy Partnership Program
MIT Energy Initiative
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Research Scientist
MIT Energy Initiative
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Professor
Department of Economics
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Professor
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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Former Postdoctoral Fellow
MIT Energy Initiative
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Professor
Department of Mathematics
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Graduate Student
Technology and Policy Program
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Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
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Professor
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
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Professor
Department of Earth; Atmospheric; and Planetary Sciences
Dara Entekhabi
Professor
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Steven Eppinger
Professor
Sloan School of Management
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Assistant Professor
Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Xuanlai Fang
Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
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Director, Environmental Solutions Initiative
Office of the Vice President for Research
Randall Field
Executive Director, Future Energy Systems Center
MIT Energy Initiative
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Professor
Sloan School of Management
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Research Scientist
Department of Mechanical Engineering
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Professor
Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering
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Principal Research Scientist
Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering
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Professor
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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Professor Emeritus
Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering
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Professor
Department of Urban Studies and Planning
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Professor
Department of Physics
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Assistant Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering

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