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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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Confronting the AI energy conundrum - MIT News
The MIT Energy Initiative #039;s annual research spring symposium explored artificial intelligence as both a problem and solution for the clean energy transition
- 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
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