MIT is currently focused on how to solve the hard problems around energy — both supplying it for a growing planet and harvesting it more environmentally friendly. While many labs and centers work on these problems, a central point in the work is the MIT Energy Initiative.
Dr. Steven Chu, US Secretary of EnergyWednesday November 30, 2011
A brief discussion by Stephen Connors, director of the Analysis Group for Regional Energy Alternatives (AGREA).
About the Presentation A network that distributes power generated by Renewable Energy Supplies (RESs) will require a "smart box" in each home in the network to meter power and to connect to and communicate with other elements of the network. These smart boxes will also ...
Researchers at Stanford are making transparent battery electrodes that could power future gadgets.
Following the United Nations Climate Change Conference held in December 2009 in Copenhagen, Denmark, a five-member panel reviews the pros and cons of the events that took place.
Dr. Shi, Zhengrong - The Founder, Chairman and CEO of SUNTECH
Researcher Tammy Thompson attended the American Geophysical Union's Science Policy Conference this month. In this video, Thompson explains the research she did that the conference highlighted. To view Thompson's poster from the conference, click here. In her research, ...
There's "just exactly enough time, with no time to lose" to address the massive challenge of climate change and renewable energy, says moderator John Sterman. With this sense of urgency, MIT faculty, administration and students have taken to heart the mission of ...
Steven E. Koonin, PhD '75, Undersecretary for Science, U.S. Department of Energy Steve Koonin's news is decidedly mixed: "The headline is the world is not going to run out of energy any time soon," says Koonin, but the environmental, political and economic costs of ...
MITs Solar Electric Vehicle Team, the oldest such student team in the country, unveiled its latest high-tech car on Friday, Feb. 27, in Lobby 13.
This talk was given on May 5, 2009 as part of the MITEI Seminar Series - Abstract - As US energy challenges mount, the public and political debate continues to demonstrate disturbing misunderstandings of both the problems and potential solutions. The US faces three ...
“So what exactly could you do with a bachelor’s degree from NSE?” Read more at the Nuclear Science & Engineering website.
A new lab is inventing innovative ways to package and install solar cells, with the aim of making solar energy far more affordable.
Representatives from the McCain and Obama campaigns faced off Monday, Oct. 6 for a debate on energy, moderated by NPR's Tom Ashbrook, host of the daily talk show "On Point." McCain was represented by James Woolsey, who was director of the Central Intelligence Agency under President Clinton ...
President Barack Obama, in a historic visit to the MIT campus on October 23, 2009, praised the Institute's commitment to energy research and issued a strong call for the nation to lead the world in the development of new, efficient and clean energy t
A panel discussion featuring Boston-area energy policy experts. Gilbert Metcalf, Applied Public Finance, Department of Economics, Tufts University John Parsons, Director, Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change John Reilly, Behavioral and Policy ...
This seminar was presented on March 10, 2009 as part of the MITEI Seminar Series. This talk will discuss the research frontier involved with the development of an integrated system based on semiconductor nanowires that act as artificial photosynthetic pigments, which ...
A special Seminar by MIT Energy Initiative and MIT China Energy and Environment Research Group
This colloquium was given in celebration of Earth Day on April 22, 2009.
