Optimal paths for AUVs
Optimal paths for automated underwater vehicles (AUV)
Sometimes the fastest pathway from point A to point B is not a straight line: for example, if you're underwater and contending with strong and shifting currents.
Ocean currents from space
Ocean currents from space
Surface ocean currents as seen from a satellite altimeter. White areas represent strong currents; blue areas weak currents.
Nerinx Hall High School InvenTeam: Presentation
Nerinx Hall High School InvenTeam: Presentation
Nerinx Hall High School from Webster Groves, Mo., received a 2006 InvenTeam grant from the Lemelson-MIT Program to invent the Water Treatment and Transportation Apparatus (WTTA). The InvenTeam presented its prototype at MIT, upon completion of the grant. Inspired by ...
Nate Lewis - Sunlight-driven hydrogen formation by ...
Nate Lewis - Sunlight-driven hydrogen formation by membrane-supported ...
This seminar was presented on March 10, 2009 as part of the MITEI Seminar Series. This talk will discuss the research frontier involved with the development of an integrated system based on semiconductor nanowires that act as artificial photosynthetic pigments, which ...
Nanoscale Engineering for High Performance Solar Cells
Nanoscale Engineering for High Performance Solar Cells
05/12/2009 6:00 PM MuseumVladimir Bulovic, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Description: How much energy does it take to turn on a lightbulb? Way too much in the U.S., where 22% of all electricity gets channeled into illuminating homes, ...
MIT Water War 2008
MIT Water War 2008
The annual East Campus versus West Campus water war during Orientation 2008
MIT Water Technology Research: Applications for Industry ...
MIT Water Technology Research: Applications for Industry and Public ...
A brief discussion with John Lienhard, the Samuel C. Collins Professor of Mechanical Engineering.
MIT Physics Demo -- Conductivity of Ionized Water
MIT Physics Demo -- Conductivity of Ionized Water
A light bulb is placed in series with two copper plates immersed in de-ionized water. Touching the plates closes the circuit, lighting the bulb.When kosher salt is dropped into the de-ionized water, the salt dissolves, causing ions to be dispersed throughout the ...
Michael Pritchard, entrepreneur and inventor of the world's ...
Michael Pritchard, entrepreneur and inventor of the world's first ...
Inventor, LIFESAVER bottle Managing Director, Hydronic Solutions Ltd. Michael W. Pritchard M.W.M.Soc is a British inventor, entrepreneur and public speaker. Michael was born in Epsom, Surrey in 1967. He was educated at Gordonstoun School in Scotland and went to the ...
Master's student Arthur Gueneau models potential impacts on ...
Master's student Arthur Gueneau models potential impacts on agricultural ...
A Masters student in MIT's Technology and Policy Program, Joint Program research assistant Arthur Gueneau studies the impacts of climate change on agriculture. Originally from France, Arthur is driven by the question: "How do we feed the world? How do we feed nine ...
Making nanodroplets drop faster
Making nanodroplets drop faster
MIT mechanical engineering graduate student Nenad Miljkovic on condensation, nanodroplet formation, and new nanopatterned surfaces.
Making Ice Cream with Salt: The Effect of Salt on the ...
Making Ice Cream with Salt: The Effect of Salt on the Freezing and Boiling ...
This video examines how adding solutes can change the freezing and boiling points of water.
Luminescent Solar Concentrators Explained
Luminescent Solar Concentrators Explained
05/19/2009 6:00 PM MuseumMarc Baldo, Esther and Harold E. Edgerton Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer ScienceDescription: Researchers are well along in designing a highly efficient, inexpensive solar cell, ...
Looking Ahead to the Future of NASA
Looking Ahead to the Future of NASA
05/10/2010 3:00 PM 32"123Gen. Charles Bolden, NASA AdministratorDescription: From the MIT News Office: NASA Administrator Charles F. Bolden Jr. defended President Barack Obama's controversial plans for the U.S. space agency's future and touted the president's plan to invest billions of ...
Life Sciences: The Human Body: Superhighway of ...
Life Sciences: The Human Body: Superhighway of Environmental Gene Flow
With Eric AlmAbout 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 ...
Leading an Environmentally Sustainable Enterprise
Leading an Environmentally Sustainable Enterprise
04/09/2009 12:00 PM Wong AuditoriumMartin D. Madaus, Chairman, President & CEO, Millipore CorporationDescription: Climate change poses perhaps the premiere threat to coming generations, says Martin Madaus, but to avoid its worst impacts, we must confront the issue ...
Kate Clopek: Community Water Solutions
Kate Clopek: Community Water Solutions
Katherine Clopeck SM '09 participated in the MIT Public Service Fellowship program. Kate followed-up on a project she began the summer of 2008 to bring safe drinking water to rural villages and also empower the women of the villages to take up an entrepreneurial role in selling clean water in ...
John Peter Nshimyimana, Legatum Fellow
John Peter Nshimyimana, Legatum Fellow
John Peter Nshimyimana talks about the business he would like to start in his homeland. His idea is to provide clean water solutions to the rural villages in Rwanda.
Inventor: Scot Frank - WatMap
Inventor: Scot Frank - WatMap
Scot Frank co-inventor of WatMap, an online database that allows people to post water quality information around the world.
Industry: Synthetic Chemicals and Materials in the ...
Industry: Synthetic Chemicals and Materials in the Environment: Do We Need ...
With Philip GschwendAbout 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 ...