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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 ...
KEMA has recently developed analyses and simulations of the interaction of new classes of load behavior in energy markets. The analyses include the day ahead, hour ahead, and intra-hour / real time markets and their interactions. The new classes of load behavior ...
April 26, 2011 Nuclear power is poised to grow quickly in some parts of the world and could grow significantly here in the United States. Key decisions are pending, however, on how to structure that growth. MIT has completed a 3-year study on the Future of the Nuclear ...
June 2011 The Future of Natural Gas is the fourth in a series of MIT multidisciplinary reports examining the role of various energy sources that may be important for meeting future demand under carbon dioxide emissions constraints. In each case, we explore the steps ...
(4/26/2011) The earthquake and tsunami that ravaged parts of Japan and severely damaged the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant have sparked fears of radiation exposure and a potential meltdown. Here in the United States those realities have renewed the debate over ...
Meet physics professor Ernest Moniz from The Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Moniz is not just a world-renowned scientist, but also an expert in policy who served in President Clinton's administration and now is on President Obama's council of advisers on ...
The main concern in this talk is a possible IT framework for enabling deployment of new hardware technologies into the existing system at value. We explain how the proposed IT framework could evolve in synchrony with the existing utility control centers and their ...
An overview of wind energy fundamentals from the physical resource, to the technology, to the economics, policy and social impacts by Katherine Dykes. This seminar was given on January 14, 2011 as part of MITEI's Energy Futures Week 2011 and Co-sponsored by the MIT ...
A panel on energy efficiency research and education at MIT moderated by MITEI Deputy Director Robert Armstrong. Speakers include John Reilly, Co-Director of the Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, on the expected role of efficiency in meeting ...
Over the past quarter century, building energy efficiency has focused on improvements to components and equipment. While component efficiencies increased dramatically, the size of our homes and the number of energy using stuff has increased even faster. Looking ...
This talk was given on December 14, 2010 as part of the MITEI Seminar Series. Juliette Kayyem was the Assistant Secretary for Intergovernmental Affairs in the Department of Homeland Security. Rear Admiral Peter Neffenger was the Deputy National Incident Commander for the Deepwater Horizon Oil ...
We are living through a Sputnik moment in our nation's history, where we have witnessed multiple wake up calls with regards to the need for innovating in energy technologies. ARPA-E was created to address this need by investing in high-risk/high-impact projects, with ...
Nuclear power is poised to grow quickly in some parts of the world and could grow significantly here in the United States. Key decisions are pending, however, on how to structure that growth. MIT has completed a 3-year study on the Future of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle to ...
This talk was given on April 22, 2010 as the Earth Day Colloquium, sponsored by the MIT Energy Initiative and the United Technologies Corporation. - About the Speaker - William McDonough is an internationally renowned designer and one of the primary proponents and ...
Natural gas has moved to the center of the current debate on energy, security, and climate. The MIT Study on the Future of Natural Gas has examined the role of gas in a carbon-constrained world, with a topic horizon out to mid-century. On June 25, 2010 at the National ...
This talk was given on May 4, 2010 as part of the MITEI Seminar Series, sponsored by IHS-CERA. - Abstract - The world is beginning a long, and certainly painful, transition between the fossil energy sources, particularly petroleum, that have powered our economic ...
This talk was given on April 6, 2010 as part of the MITEI Seminar Series, sponsored by IHS-CERA. - About the Speaker - The John A. Newman Professor of Physical Science at Cornell, Frank DiSalvo is the co-director of the Center for Future Energy Systems and the Cornell ...
This seminar was given on March 2, 2010 as part of the MITEI Seminar Series, sponsored by IHS-CERA. - About the Speaker - Bruce Logan is the Kappe Professor of Environmental Engineering at Penn State University, and Director of the Engineering Energy & Environmental ...
Presentations made on MIT energy research at a press briefing on March 5, 2010. - Paula Hammond: Materials for Energy Applications Using Electrostatic Assembly - Gang Chen: Nanostructured Materials for Energy Applications - Michael Strano: Discovery and Application of ...
The goal of the biological engineering discipline is to advance fundamental understanding of how biological systems operate and to develop effective ...
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