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MIT Environmental Research Forum - Dara Entekhabi, Ernest Moniz, and James Yoder
New materials, architectures, and concepts are needed to realize many low-cost, sustainable energy conversion and carbon mitigation applications.
A discussion hosted by the MIT Energy Initiative and the Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change.
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 ...
On April 20, 2011, the MIT Energy Initiative held a symposium on Managing Large-Scale Penetration of Intermittent Renewables.
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, ...
-Abstract- Demand for power and renewable-friendly policies have created opportunities and encouraged the development of other solar technologies for large-scale applications. Large plants based on photovoltaic (PV), concentrated PV, Linear Fresnel Reflectors, Central ...
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 ...
Speaker:John Kitchin, Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon UniversityAbstractElectrochemical water splitting may be in integral part of future energy storage strategies by enabling energy storage in chemical bonds. One of the primary sources of ...
John Kitchin, associate professor of chemical engineering at Carnegie Mellon University/More about the event: http://mitei.mit.edu/calendar/situ-spectroscopic-studies-metal-oxide-electrodes-during-water-oxidation
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 ...
A talk presented by Professor Don Sadoway on January 11, 2010 as part of the MIT Energy Initiative's Energy Futures Week. The road to sustainability is paved with advanced materials. Advances in rechargeable batteries would enable widespread adoption of practical ...
This seminar was given on October 7, 2008 as part of the MITEI Seminar Series. Abstract: The poor in the world pay more for energy services, which are often unreliable and from unsustainable sources. There are ways to provide the poor with energy services from ...
This seminar was given on October 7, 2008 as part of the MITEI Seminar Series. Abstract: The poor in the world pay more for energy services, which are often unreliable and from unsustainable sources. There are ways to provide the poor with energy services from ...
Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick delivered a major public address at MIT on Earth Day, April 22, 2008 where he discussed his vision for the future of clean energy in the Commonwealth. Governor Patrick's administration and the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative have been working ...
This seminar was given on December 2, 2008 as part of the MITEI Seminar Series Abstract: The global dependence on fossil fuel is among the greatest challenges facing our economic, social and political future. The uncertainty of imported oil threatens global energy ...
George Crabtree - The Sustainable Energy Challenge ShareThis Embed Playlist Report This seminar was given on December 2, 2008 as part of the MITEI Seminar Series Abstract: The global dependence on fossil fuel is among the greatest challenges facing 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 ...
Abstract Current science tells us that we must act now in order to prevent the worst impacts of global warming. The international community, mean- while, is meeting this December in Copenhagen to negotiate a new climate regime. Is the United States moving fast enough ...
Genius (Students) + Ingenious (Curriculum) = Extraordinary Learning @ MITStudents and professors talk about innovation and creativity in teaching and learning at MIT. See four examples: The hands-on Hydrodynamics Lab, HASS subject: "Learning From the Past: Drama, Science, Performance" ...
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