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Paulo Portas, Portugal’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, introduced by Ernest Moniz, director of the MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI).Sponsored by the MIT Portugal Program.
Ernest J. Moniz is the Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physics and Engineering Systems, Director of the Energy Initiative, and the Director of the Laboratory for Energy and the Environment. Professor Moniz served as U.S. Under Secretary of Energy from 1997 to 2001 and ...
Historical Perspectives on Climate Change: Scientific, Technological, and Social Dynamics Jim Fleming, Professor of Science, Technology, and Society, Colby College Tuesday, May 8 How have scientists gained awareness and understanding of phenomena that cover ...
The NYT's Andrew Revkin on how new ways to share and shape ideas can help build durable progress on a finite planet.
New materials, architectures, and concepts are needed to realize many low-cost, sustainable energy conversion and carbon mitigation applications.
Toyota’s Tom Stricker gives his take on the most effective way forward for the auto industry.
MIT Environmental Research Forum - Dara Entekhabi, Ernest Moniz, and James Yoder
On April 20, 2011, the MIT Energy Initiative held a symposium on Managing Large-Scale Penetration of Intermittent Renewables.
Public discourse on energy topics from nuclear technology to climate impacts to biofuels is often characterized by tall claims, exaggerated risks, biased coverage and impenetrable legalese.
An exploration of the efficacy of distributed energy generation in California based on regional policy and the economics of proposed solutions.
Thomas F. Jaramillo Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University Chemical transformations are ubiquitous in today's global-scale energy economy. The ability to catalyze chemical reactions efficiently will continue to be critically important as we ...
John Deutch Institute Professor This talk will describe the tremendous potential benefits of shale gas and the environmental challenges posed by shale gas production. John Deutch will review the work of the Secretary of Energy Advisory Board Shale Gas Subcommittee, ...
Panelists review key points of the study and take questions from the audience during this presentation of the MIT Energy Initiative's 2011 study entitled The Future of the Electric Grid. For well over a century, electricity has made vital contributions to the growth ...
Joschka Fischer Foreign Minister of the Federal Republic of Germany, 1998-2005 Germany is a highly industrialized country and with its recent decision to eliminate nuclear energy, it has the potential to become a model for how a carbon-free economy without nuclear ...
Joseph E. Aldy Harvard Kennedy School The Recovery Act invested more than $90 billion in clean energy and leveraged more than $100 billion in private capital for investments in manufacturing, power generation, and the residential and commercial building sectors to ...
Sponsored by CSAIL David Culler, Professor and Chair of Computer Science Associate Chair of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences Faculty Director of i4Energy at the University of California, Berkeley After 150 years of industrial (r)evolution, as we ...
Robert Solow Nobel Laureate, 1987 Institute Professor, Emeritus Robert M. Solow is considered to be one of the founders of modern neoclassical economics. He utilized determinants of economic growth to be separated out into increases in inputs and technical progress. ...
Steve Koonin Under Secretary for Science, US Department of Energy The Department of Energy Quadrennial Technology Review is an assessment that binds together multiple energy technologies, as well as multiple DOE energy technology programs, in the common purpose of ...
Howard Gruenspecht Deputy Administrator of the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) The International Energy Outlook 2011 (IEO2011) recently issued by the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) provides projections of world energy demand and supply by region and primary energy ...
Please join us for our third MITEI on the Road event of 2011 and hear about promising MIT Energy Initiative research from one of the Institute's leading researchers, Vladimir Bulovi?. The energy-efficient future will be built in part through the adoption of innovative ...
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