Solar
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Clean Energy + MIT Ingenuity = Happy Planet. A film by Daniel Dahan '12. Music by Dustin Katzin '12.
Solar dish demonstration
Solar dish demonstration
A team led by MIT students this week successfully tested a prototype of what may be the most cost-efficient solar power system in the world. Here inventor Doug Wood demonstrates the solar dish's power by using it to set fire to a board held at the focal point. More infoVideo/David Chandler, ...
SEVT unveils new solar car
Solar Electric Vehicle Team unveils new solar car
MITs Solar Electric Vehicle Team, the oldest such student team in the country, unveiled its latest high-tech car on Friday, Feb. 27, in Lobby 13.
Solar Energy as a Major Replacement for Fossil Fuel
Solar Energy as a Major Replacement for Fossil Fuel
10/09/2007 3:30 PM 10"250Roger Angel, Director, Steward Observatory Mirror Laboratory, University of ArizonaDescription: It took a crisis to shift Roger Angel's gaze from the stars back to Earth, but we may all benefit from his full attention, locked as it is on ...
Solar wind interacting with interstellar medium
Solar wind interacting with interstellar medium
This animation illustrates how the constant outflow of particles from the sun, called the solar wind, interacts with the surrounding interstellar medium (ISM). Where the outflow first encounters the ISM, it forms a shockwave called the termination shock--the boundary ...
Solar: Igniting the Revolution at MIT
Solar: Igniting the Revolution at MIT
Solar energy has enormous long-term potential as a large-scale, carbon-neutral source of power. MIT faculty and students share how their research is leading the way for scale-up of new technologies for solar capture, conversion and storage.
The 'Artificial Leaf'
The 'Artificial Leaf'
An "artificial leaf" made by Daniel Nocera and his team, using a silicon solar cell with novel catalyst materials bonded to its two sides, is shown in a container of water with light (simulating sunlight) shining on it. The light generates a flow of electricity that causes the water molecules, ...
The Clean Energy Revolution
The Clean Energy Revolution
05/03/2010 4:30 PM Copley Place MarriottBrian Dumaine, Sr., Editor at Large, Fortune Magazine; Nancy Floyd, Founder & Managing Director Nth Power; Scott Stern, Visiting Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management; Kevin Surace, CEO, Serious MaterialsDescription: Beyond guts, a great business ...
The Road from Copenhagen
The Road from Copenhagen
Following the United Nations Climate Change Conference held in December 2009 in Copenhagen, Denmark, a five-member panel reviews the pros and cons of the events that took place.
The Role of New Technologies in a Sustainable Energy Economy
The Role of New Technologies in a Sustainable Energy Economy
10/25/2006 6:00 PM MuseumDaniel Nocera, The Henry Dreyfus Professor of Energy and Professor of Chemistry; ; ; ; Angela Belcher, Germeshausen Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, and Biological EngineeringDescription: No single new technology can deliver ...
The Second Law and Cosmology
The Second Law and Cosmology
10/04/2007 11:10 AM Broad InstituteMax Tegmark, Associate Professor of Physics, Department of Physics, MITDescription: In spite of its old age, the Second Law of Thermodynamics "is alive and kicking," says Max Tegmark, stimulating research on "really, really big puzzles." In Tegmark's case, ...
Tiny Bubbles
Tiny Bubbles
In what some are calling a major breakthrough for renewable energy, MIT chemists Daniel Nocera and Matthew Kanan discover a new catalyst that speeds up the splitting of water into oxygen and hydrogen. The discovery may heighten interest in pollution-free fuel cell vehicles, which generate ...
View from the Top--Renewable Energy: Paper Tiger or Green ...
View from the Top--Renewable Energy: Paper Tiger or Green Giant?
Presentations from View from the Top, held March 16, 2010, in Palo Alto, CA. The event was produced by the MIT Alumni Association in conjunction with the MIT Club of Northern California and with support from MIT Professional Education. Panelists: Thomas G. Burns '62, ...
Vladimir Bulovic on Energy Education at MIT
Vladimir Bulovic on Energy Education at MIT
MIT Professor Vladimir Bulovic talks about the promise of renewable energy sources, and educating MIT students on energy issues.
Voyager 2's passage through the termination shock
Voyager 2's passage through the termination shock
Voyager's passage through the termination shock is illustrated in this animation. The solar wind is shown in yellow, and the heliosheath in brown. The animation shows how Voyager crossed the boundary multiple times. The blue graph at top shows the plasma data readings ...
Whales to Wood, Wood to Coal/Oil" What's Next?
Whales to Wood, Wood to Coal/Oil" What's Next?
10/09/2007 2:15 PM 10"250Daniel Nocera, The Henry Dreyfus Professor of Energy and Professor of Chemistry; ; ; Description: In 1845, the Dietz Company of New York introduced the sperm oil lantern, which nearly wiped out some whale species. A decade or so later, Dietz ...
Will Solar Technologies Meet Utility-Scale Demand? - MIT ...
Will Solar Technologies Meet Utility-Scale Demand? - MIT Club of Northern ...
Please join us at PARC the evening of June 1st for a stand-up dinner, followed by a lively panel discussion featuring three high-level solar executives and the senior advisor to the CA governor, who will address the viability of solar technologies in scaling up to ...