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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 Energy Initiative conference spotlights research priorities amidst . . .
At the MIT Energy Initiative’s Annual Research Conference, industry leaders agreed collaboration is key to advancing critical technologies amidst a changing energy landscape
- 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
- Giving buildings an “MRI” to make them more energy-efficient and . . .
Founded by a team from MIT, Lamarr AI utilizes drones, thermal imaging, and AI to identify energy waste and structural issues in buildings and recommend retrofits
- Using liquid air for grid-scale energy storage - MIT News
Liquid air energy storage could be the lowest-cost solution for ensuring a reliable power supply on a future grid dominated by carbon-free yet intermittent energy sources, according to a new model from MIT researchers
- 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
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