Energy Decisions, Markets, and Policies - Lecture 16: ...
Energy Decisions, Markets, and Policies - Lecture 16: Shale: Opportunities ...
Description: This lecture focuses on hydraulic cracking, or fracking, and its environmental consequences and impact on policy as seen from the perspectives of key stakeholders. Discussion includes a thought experiment about having a shale resource in Massachusetts. ...
Energy Decisions, Markets, and Policies - Lecture 18: ...
Energy Decisions, Markets, and Policies - Lecture 18: Tomorrow's Electric ...
Description: This lecture focuses on future challenges that await grid technology on the policy, economic, and technological fronts. RD&D and dynamic pricing are offered as avenues toward solutions, though the primary issues still rests in policy and regulation. ...
Energy Decisions, Markets, and Policies - Lecture 6: ...
Energy Decisions, Markets, and Policies - Lecture 6: Climate Science and ...
Description: This lecture presents the issues of time-scales and uncertainties as barriers to climate change. Three views on discounting are discussed as well as strategies for reducing global costs, adapting to new technologies, and reducing CO2 emissions. Instructor: ...
Energy Decisions, Markets, and Policies - Lecture 8: ...
Energy Decisions, Markets, and Policies - Lecture 8: Economics of Energy ...
Description: The lecture focuses on how to estimate, calculate, and predict energy demand. Considerations for short-run and long-run demand are taken, and the efficiency paradox is also discussed. Instructor: Richard Schmalensee
Energy Decisions, Markets, and Policies - Lecture 9: Energy ...
Energy Decisions, Markets, and Policies - Lecture 9: Energy Use by ...
Description: This lecture frames decisions affecting energy use as framed by social science and factors that influence decision-making. The lecture makes use of a research study conducted on towel reuse, and a class discussion of group identities. Instructor: Susan ...
Energy Decisions, Markets, and Policies - Lecture 3: U.S. ...
Energy Decisions, Markets, and Policies - Lecture 3: U.S. Energy Problems
Description: This lecture focuses on energy issues during the recent history of the U.S., ranging from the creation of the EPA to the problems faced by the Obama administration. A computer model is used to demonstrate projections and issues surrounding negotiations. ...
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: ...
'Cheetah' robot's first run
'Cheetah' robot's first run
A “cheetah” robot designed at MIT may soon outpace its animal counterparts in running efficiency: In treadmill tests, the researchers have found that it wastes very little energy as it trots continuously for up to an hour and a half.
MIT-developed coating could prevent frost buildup
MIT-developed coating could prevent frost buildup
A team of MIT researchers has found a coating that outperforms others not only in preventing foggy buildups, but also in maintaining good optical properties without distortion.
2013 Sloan Technology Conference - Afternoon Keynote
2013 Sloan Technology Conference - Afternoon Keynote
Walt Doyle Recorded 2-23-13
2013 Sloan Technology Conference - Morning Keynote
2013 Sloan Technology Conference - Morning Keynote
Peter Coffee Recorded 2-23-13
2013 Sloan Technology Conference - Panel 1
2013 Sloan Technology Conference - Panel 1
Leveraging the Connected Consumer through Social Media
2013 Sloan Technology Conference - Panel 3
2013 Sloan Technology Conference - Panel 3
Content Everywhere, the New Mantra of Television Viewers Recorded 2-23-13
2013 Sloan Technology Conference - Special Keynote
2013 Sloan Technology Conference - Special Keynote
Charles Phillips Recorded 2-23-13
2013 Sloan Technology Conference - Welcome and Opening ...
2013 Sloan Technology Conference - Welcome and Opening Remarks
This year's conference focused on the theme of "Democratizing Innovation."
4D Printing: Self-Folding Strand
4D Printing: Self-Folding Strand
A collaboration between Stratasys & The Self-Assembly Lab at MIT, which is headed by Skylar Tibbits, a lecturer in the Department of Architecture.
Nikolai Begg Lemelson-MIT Application Video
Nikolai Begg Lemelson-MIT Application Video
My video submission for the Lemelson-MIT Student Prize for Invention, describing a novel mechanism to increase the safety of puncture access procedures.
SSRC Lecture
SSRC Lecture
Find out more about the Sociotechnical Systems Research Center at MIT (SSRC): http://ssrc.mit.edu/ Recorded Feb. 6, 2013
The virtues of risk and failure
The virtues of risk and failure
MIT Sloan Women in Management conference talks up the virtues of risk and failure.