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Portland Pilots Emergency Microgrid Structures for Disaster Resilience

August 27, 2018 by Alyssa Danigelis

The City of Portland, Portland State University, and Portland General Electric are collaborating on a program to improve disaster resilience in the city through emergency microgrid structures called PrepHubs. An interdisciplinary team from MIT is supporting the effort. These prototypes are composed of critical lifeline modules forming a flexible kit ... Read more »

Can Nuclear Fusion Get A Gust Of Wind With Trump’s Supposed Support?

November 28, 2016November 30, 2016 by Ken Silverstein

If there is an ideal energy form, it is nuclear fusion. But the technology is one of those that is always within reach but still so far away. With that, though, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology says that it is advancing the ball, as is a group of nations hard at work trying to build the first fusion reactor before

GE Commits $7.5 Million to Low-Carbon Tech, Joins MIT Energy Initiative

August 30, 2016December 5, 2016 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

General Electric is joining Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s energy research hub and donating $7.5 million to its efforts to develop low- and no-carbon energy technologies. GE says its work with the MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI) will focus on solar energy, energy storage, electric power systems, and carbon capture, utilization and ... Read more »

MIT Develops Promising New Battery Storage Technology

May 27, 2016 by Ken Silverstein

MIT has a new way to design batteries to store energy: Liquid flow devices whereby the positive and negative electrodes are liquid and separated from the membrane -- something only those scientists and engineers really understand.

Analyzing Buildings for Energy Efficient Retrofits Can be Practical, MIT Says

April 25, 2016 by Ken Silverstein

Want to know which buildings will get the biggest bang for the buck when it comes to retrofitting for energy efficiencies? Some MIT professors think they have the right tool, which will reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Marta González and Franz-Josef Ulm are MIT professors of civil and environmental engineering, as ... Read more »

Climate Policy Is Coming. Is Business Prepared?

April 5, 2016April 8, 2016 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Businesses can expect stricter carbon pollution regulations coming soon — and that’s not necessarily a bad thing, according to some. We saw this reasoning explained in companies’ briefs supporting the EPA’s Clean Power Plan last week, with major tech firms Apple, Google, Amazon and Microsoft, along with Ikea and Mars ... Read more »

Carbon Pricing Beats Vehicle Fuel Economy Standards

October 14, 2015October 14, 2015 by Karen Henry

Currently planned fuel economy standards (extended to the year 2050) would cost 10 percent of the economy’s global gross domestic product (GDP) in 2050, compared with only 6 percent under cap-and-trade carbon pricing, according to a study published in the Journal of Transport Economics and Policy. The study was conducted ... Read more »

Making Treating, Recycling Fracking Water More Economical

July 20, 2015July 20, 2015 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

A process to make hydraulic fracturing, or fracking water-neutral, by making treating and recycling contaminated oilfield water more economical, is under development by MIT spinout Gradiant Corporation. MIT News reports that Gradiant says the cost-effective water treatment system will save millions of gallons of water — and millions of dollars ... Read more »

Benefits of B2B Exchange for Water in Energy Production

October 27, 2014October 27, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Sourcewater, an MIT spin-off, has issued a research report detailing the immediate and long-term benefits available to the unconventional energy production industry through the use of a web-based marketplace for buying and selling water. Sourcewater is the world’s first online marketplace for sourcing, recycling and disposing of water in the ... Read more »

Fracking May Face Severe Water Competition

September 3, 2014September 5, 2014 by Ken Jennison

Hydraulic fracturing companies working to develop shale gas may encounter intense competition for water, as 38 percent of the world’s shale resources are either under extremely high water stress or facing arid conditions, according to a report by the World Resources Institute. The report ranks water stress across the 20 ... Read more »

Study: Cutting Emissions Could Pay for Itself

August 26, 2014August 25, 2014 by Ken Jennison

Money saved on health care spending related to carbon emissions could be 10 times what it would cost for policy implementation, according to research conducted by Massachusetts Institute of Technology and published in Nature Climate Change. Researchers compared health care and other costs related to carbon emission-related illness to the costs of ... Read more »

Lean and Green Can Be Profitable

August 18, 2014August 15, 2014 by Ken Jennison

As manufacturers around the world adopt lean manufacturing and cut down on raw material consumption, energy usage, environmental waste and pollution, they are learning that eco-friendly practices can be profitable, according to Ensia. John Quarmley has learned this. Quarmley started Highwood USA in Pennsylvania as a company with sustainable manufacturing practices ... Read more »

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