Energy Decisions, Markets, and Policies - Lecture 5: Path ...
Energy Decisions, Markets, and Policies - Lecture 5: Path Dependence in ...
Description: This lecture focuses on path dependence and the obstacles discouraging changes in energy systems. Several examples of energy systems are given, including those unable to be changed as well as those that were changed in light of path dependence. Instructor: ...
Harnessing Microbes for Carbon Dioxide Sequestration
Harnessing Microbes for Carbon Dioxide Sequestration
Hector Hernandez, assistant professor in chemical engineering, describes how Le Chatelier's principle and the effects of pressure on solubility relate to his research on harnessing microbes to remove carbon dioxide from the environment. Hector envisions that his ...
Cumulus, cirrus, stratus: what clouds say about climate ...
Cumulus, cirrus, stratus: what clouds say about climate change
What happens when particles in the atmosphere, especially manufactured ones, interact with water vapor and temperature to form clouds in a changing climate?
Watching the Arctic Melt: Ecosystem Adaptation
Watching the Arctic Melt: Ecosystem Adaptation
Carin Ashjia
Watching the Arctic Melt: Geopolitics
Watching the Arctic Melt: Geopolitics
Rear Adm. Richard Pittenger, USN
Watching the Arctic Melt: Robotic Exploration
Watching the Arctic Melt: Robotic Exploration
John Leonard & Hanu Singh
Watching the Arctic Melt: Surveying with Sound
Watching the Arctic Melt: Surveying with Sound
Art Baggeroer & Henrik Schmidt
Engineering a Cooler Earth: Panel Discussion
Engineering a Cooler Earth: Panel Discussion
Recorded 11/19/12
LGO Webinar: Aaron Fyke, Energy Cache
LGO Webinar: Aaron Fyke, Energy Cache
Amidst a perfect storm battering funding for renewable energy companies, Aaron Fyke, LGO ’02, was able to model a grid-level energy storage system that would satisfy risk-averse customers by leveraging the cheapest, densest materials and a proven technology. The company Fyke founded, ...
Technology Water Supply, Desalination and Energy
Technology Water Supply, Desalination and Energy
Recorded 12/15/11
Putting it together: the modular car
Putting it together: the modular car
With the 10^5 Competition, MIT's Vehicle Design Summit (VDS) will leverage distributed innovation to build a better car.
The World's Chemistry in Our Hands: Global Environmental ...
The World's Chemistry in Our Hands: Global Environmental Challenges Past ...
Professor Susan SolomonEllen Swallow Richards Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry and Climate Science at MITDean of Science's Colloquium: “The World’s Chemistry in Our Hands: Global Environmental Challenges Past and Future”September 13, 2012 Humans ...
What's Your Question? - Rivers of Ice
Cambridge Science Festival - What's Your Question? - Rivers of Ice
From the high Himalayas to the poles, the world’s glaciers are melting. What does this mean for your community and our shared Earth? David Breashears presents his stunning new images of the Himalayan glaciers to mark the MIT Museum’s opening ...
At the intersection of biology and physics in the ocean
At the intersection of biology and physics in the ocean
Mick Follows is a Senior Research Scientist in the Program in Atmospheres, Oceans and Climate, part of the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, at MIT. Together with the other members of the Marine Biogeochemical Modeling group ...
MIT Museum Talkback 360 - Visualizing Science: The Changing ...
MIT Museum Talkback 360 - Visualizing Science: The Changing Arctic Ice
April 17, 2012 Visualizing Science: The Changing Arctic IceExplore the Arctic ice cap with photographer Chris Linder, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution scientist John Toole, and MIT oceanographer Patrick Heimbach. See stunning images from ...
Building the #Knowosphere
Building the #Knowosphere: MITEI Earth Day Colloquium with Andrew Revkin
The NYT's Andrew Revkin on how new ways to share and shape ideas can help build durable progress on a finite planet.
Climate
Climate
With Ronald PrinnAbout the event With its daylong MIT Environmental Research Forum held on December 15, 2011, the Environmental Research Council (ERC) fulfilled its charge from Provost L. Rafael Reif to "provide a detailed blueprint for building a strong environmental initiative" at MIT. ...
Process and Report of the ERC
Process and Report of the ERC
With Dara EntekhabiAbout the event With its daylong MIT Environmental Research Forum held on December 15, 2011, the Environmental Research Council (ERC) fulfilled its charge from Provost L. Rafael Reif to "provide a detailed blueprint for building a strong environmental initiative" at MIT. ...