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- Explained: Generative AI’s environmental impact - MIT News
MIT News explores the environmental and sustainability implications of generative AI technologies and applications
- Understanding how plants use sunlight - MIT News
Professor Gabriela S Schlau-Cohen (center) and graduate students Raymundo Moya (left) and Wei Jia Chen worked with collaborators at the University of Verona, Italy, to develop a new understanding of the mechanisms by which plants reject excess energy they absorb from sunlight so it doesn’t harm key proteins The insights gained could one day lead to critically needed increases in yields of
- MIT engineers create an energy-storing supercapacitor from ancient . . .
MIT engineers created a carbon-cement supercapacitor that can store large amounts of energy Made of just cement, water, and carbon black, the device could form the basis for inexpensive systems that store intermittently renewable energy, such as solar or wind energy
- New facility to accelerate materials solutions for fusion energy
The new Schmidt Laboratory for Materials in Nuclear Technologies (LMNT) at the MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center accelerates fusion materials testing using cyclotron proton beam irradiation, advancing fusion energy, nuclear power, and clean energy research at MIT
- Alumnus’ thermal battery helps industry eliminate fossil fuels
Antora Energy is addressing the intermittent nature of wind and solar with a low-cost, highly efficient thermal battery that stores electricity as heat to allow manufacturers and other energy-hungry businesses to eliminate their use of fossil fuels
- A new approach could fractionate crude oil using much less energy
MIT engineers developed a membrane that filters the components of crude oil by their molecular size, an advance that could dramatically reduce the amount of energy needed for crude oil fractionation
- A new heat engine with no moving parts is as efficient as a steam . . .
Engineers at MIT and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have designed a heat engine with no moving parts Their new demonstrations show that it converts heat to electricity with over 40 percent efficiency — a performance better than that of traditional steam turbines
- Turning heat into electricity - MIT News
A new MIT study finds topological materials could boost the efficiency of thermoelectric devices, which convert a temperature difference into electricity
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