Introduction to Wind Power
Introduction to Wind Power
How does a windmill create electricity
Harnessing the Wind at MIT: Wright Brothers Wind Tunnel
Harnessing the Wind at MIT: Wright Brothers Wind Tunnel
The wind Tunnel has proven instrumental in the examination of aerospace, architectural, vehicular, sports and other engineering systems
Awakening: Jamshied Sharifi with the MIT Wind Ensemble
Awakening: Jamshied Sharifi with the MIT Wind Ensemble
Jamshied Sharifi was commissioned by the MIT Wind Ensemble to create an extended composition that recognizes the Arab Spring, a revolutionary wave of demonstrations and protests occurring in the Arab World that began in December 2010. The piece uses ...
Distributed Energy Generation: Future or Fantasy?
Distributed Energy Generation: Future or Fantasy? — MIT Club of Northern ...
An exploration of the efficacy of distributed energy generation in California based on regional policy and the economics of proposed solutions.
Power System Balancing with High Renewable Penetration
Power System Balancing with High Renewable Penetration: The Potential of ...
About the Presentation The state of Hawai'i plans to obtain 40% of its electricity from renewable energy by 2030. Balancing intermittent wind with fossil fuel plants can be expensive, slowing adoption. A social and technical infrastructure for temporary reductions in ...
Acoustics 1.00
Acoustics 1.00
Big brother Michael is a guest on his brother Wayne's TV Show. Michael shows two items of an acoustic nature. We hear an entire 78 rpm record on a phonograph he just restored, showcasing a variety of instruments and sound effects. Behold. It sounds excellent. Then we hear a VW bus record ...
MIT's Wright Brothers Wind Tunnel
MIT's Wright Brothers Wind Tunnel
This video includes footage of MIT Professors Judson R. Baron and Eugene E. Covert, pioneers in aeronautics. Filmed in 1997, during an AeroAstro historical presentation, they discuss the early days of MIT's state-of-the-art Wright Brothers Wind Tunnel, which investigated problems related to ...
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 ...
Lunch with a Laureate: Eric Chivian
Lunch with a Laureate: Eric Chivian
In 1978, in his last years of residency in psychiatry at Mass General Hospital, Eric Chivian decided to do something bold.
BLOSSOMS - Wind and Sand
BLOSSOMS - Wind and Sand
The goal of this video lesson is to relate physics principles to natural phenomena, while simultaneously incorporating the context of global and environmental issues. The lesson aims to inform high school students of physics about applications far beyond the pure theoretical physics taught in ...
Technology & Culture Forum - The Boy Who Harnessed the ...
Technology & Culture Forum - The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
William Kamkwamba & Bryan MealerThe Boy Who Harnessed the WindRecorded on 10/21/2009
America's Leadership in Clean Energy
America's Leadership in Clean Energy
10/23/2009 12:00 PM KresgePresident Barack Obama, 44th President of the USDescription: In welcoming President Obama, MIT President Susan Hockfield summarizes the vast array of energy innovation at MIT, including the MIT Energy Initiative and the student"led 1700 member Energy Club, and ...
The Coriolis Effect
The Coriolis Effect
Two demonstrators sit at either end of a rotating platform and toss a ball back and forth. When viewed from the rest frame (when the camera is mounted to the ground), the ball follow a straight line but doesn't reach its target because during the ball's flight the target rotates away. When ...
2009 MIT Energy Conference: Wind Power Generation
2009 MIT Energy Conference: Wind Power Generation
Panel Session with Professor Larry Susskind (MIT, Moderator), Michael Metzner (First Wind), Gerardo Gonzalez (Red Electrica de Espana), Karl Rabago
Energy@MIT
Energy@MIT
What's needed to address the global energy challenge? New technologies, new sources of capital, and new ways of thinking. See highlights from the 2008 MIT Energy Conference, and find out how MIT is playing a vital role in finding energy solutions.
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 ...
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 ...
The Second Law and Energy
The Second Law and Energy
10/05/2007 1:00 PM Broad InstituteSteven Chu, Secretary of EnergyDescription: This Nobel Prize"winning scientist admits to staying up late the night before his talk to bone up on thermodynamics. He puts his research to good use, discussing the history and application of the laws of ...
Global Resources and the Built Environment
Global Resources and the Built Environment
06/09/2007 11:55 AM KresgeJohn Fernandez, '85, Associate Professor, Department of ArchitectureDescription: With staggering statistics, John Fernandez persuades his audience that rapidly expanding urban centers are consuming too much of the world's resources, setting ...
Improving Today's Energy Systems
Improving Today's Energy Systems
05/03/2006 1:00 PM KresgeWilliam H. Green, Jr., Associate Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering; Mujid S. Kazimi, SM '71, PhD '73, TEPCO Professor of Nuclear Engineering and Professor of Mechanical Engineering; Director, Center for Advanced Nuclear Energy Systems, Department of ...