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The pandemic changed car ownership. How can cities adapt?

David Keith (MIT Sloan School of Management) discusses the perceived benefits of car ownership—particularly through the Covid-19 pandemic—and how that impacts efforts to increase shared mobility services.
August 9, 2021 In the media Smart Cities Dive

Form Energy unveils its iron-air battery

Shayle Kann of The Interchange podcast sits down with Mateo Jaramillo, the CEO and cofounder of MIT spinout Form Energy, to discuss the company’s story—from founding to last week’s technology unveiling—and examine how multi-day storage fits into a decarbonizing grid.
July 30, 2021 In the media The Interchange

30 years 'is not very much time' to get to net zero

MITEI Senior Research Engineer Howard Herzog joins BNN Bloomberg to discuss the challenges facing the carbon capture and sequestration industry and the race to get to net zero.
July 28, 2021 In the media BNN Bloomberg

Iron-air batteries: Huge green-energy breakthrough, or just a lot of hype?

An iron-air battery prototype developed by MIT spinout Form Energy could usher in a “sort of tipping point for green energy: reliable power from renewable sources at less than $20 per kilowatt hour,” says Washington Post columnist David Von Drehle.
July 27, 2021 In the media The Washington Post

Are electric cars ‘green’? The answer is yes, but it’s complicated

Sergey Paltsev (MITEI, MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change) discusses the total lifetime emissions associated with electric vehicles and how infrastructure must change to make them an even more environmentally friendly option.
July 26, 2021 In the media CNBC

Startup claims breakthrough in long-duration batteries

Form Energy, an MIT spinout co-founded by Yet-Ming Chiang (Materials Science and Engineering), has developed a low-cost, iron-air battery that can discharge power for days and could have big ramifications for storing electricity on the power grid.
July 22, 2021 In the media The Wall Street Journal

Climate change goals and oil production are clashing in the U.S.

Sergey Paltsev, deputy director of the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, emphasizes the importance of reaching net-zero emissions as fast as possible. “By pushing natural gas—which is indeed cleaner than coal, but it’s still a fossil fuel that releases a lot of CO2 and more importantly, a lot of methane—we are actually hurting renewables,” says Paltsev.
July 19, 2021 In the media National Geographic

U.S. Department of Energy targets vastly cheaper batteries to clean up the grid

The U.S. Department of Energy has announced a new goal to reduce the cost of grid-scale, long-duration energy storage by 90 percent by 2030. MITEI’s Nestor Sepulveda SM ’16 PhD ’20 says, “One big obstacle right now is that there’s no policy requirements for utilities to build long-duration storage.”
July 14, 2021 In the media The New York Times

Meet the world’s most influential women engineers

Forbes has released a list of the 100 most influential female engineers across the globe. Four of the top 10 are MIT faculty members, including Barbara Liskov, the Ford Professor of Engineering, Dava Newman, the Apollo Professor of Aeronautics, and MITEI affiliates Daniela Rus, the director of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, and Dina Katabi, the Andre and Erna Viterbi Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
July 3, 2021 In the media Forbes

How to get all the toothpaste out of the tube

MIT spinout LiquiGlide’s super slippery, food-safe coating will be used by Colgate to create a new line of toothpaste that promises to deliver every last drop. Co-founded by Kripa Varanasi (Mechanical Engineering), the initial research for LiquiGlide was supported by MITEI’s Seed Fund Program.
May 20, 2021 In the media The Economist

How green are electric vehicles?

Jessika Trancik (Institute for Data, Systems, and Society) discusses the benefits of EVs over hybrid vehicles in achieving our emissions reduction goals. Her lab has created an interactive tool that compares the relative climate impacts of a wide array of different cars based on range of relevant factors.
May 19, 2021 In the media New York Times

The controversial future of nuclear power in the U.S.

Jacopo Buongiorno (Nuclear Science and Engineering) discusses findings from MITEI’s Future of Nuclear Energy in a Carbon Constrained World study and the need for significant cost reductions if nuclear energy is going to play a significant role in decarbonizing the U.S. power sector.
May 4, 2021 In the media National Geographic

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