Energy Futures
Energy Futures is published twice a year by the MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI) to provide readers with in-depth information about energy research and other energy activities at the Institute.
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- Making electricity with photovoltaics: No sunshine required
- Deepsea oil and gas recovery: Designing robots that can help
- Hammering droplets: New insights could lead to more durable turbine blades
- MIT study of nuclear fuel cycles: Reassessing the options
- A shared success story points to a hopeful energy future for Massachusetts
- Nanoscale solar cells that self-assemble, self-repair
- A promising lightweight battery for electric cars: New catalysts push up lagging efficiency
- MIT study confirms natural gas as bridge to low-carbon future
- Aiming at campus energy savings, hitting the targets
- A breath of fresh air: Students explore alternatives for lab safety test
- New Eni-MIT center brings high-tech tools to solar research
- Engineering fat-making bacteria: A road to plentiful biodiesel
- Tailored lighting: Reducing wasted watts
- ARPA-E clean energy awards: MIT leads again
- New design-build class weaves nature into rural Cambodian school
- Carbon-capturing enzyme: MIT chemists learn from nature
- President Obama at MIT: Gives clean energy speech, tours energy labs
- Harnessing the world's collective intelligence to deal with climate change
- Cleaner stoves, better health in rural India
- MIT announces new energy minor
- Innovative buildings: Prudent use of energy and materials
- New tool could aid safe underground storage of carbon dioxide
- Nuclear power plants: Shaping new fuels for higher efficiency
- Turning waste into clean fuels
- Faculty innovation strengthens energy curriculum
- Nanoscale layers promise to boost solar cell efficiency
- Solar power: Making fuels for when the sun doesn't shine
- Giant wind turbines, floating out of sight
- Capturing the energy in ocean waves
- MITEI launches Society of Energy Fellows at MIT
- MIT competes in DOE's Solar Decathlon in Washington, D.C.
- Doubling vehicle fuel economy by 2035: Technically feasible, challenging in scope
- Rechargeable batteries: Nanoscale clues to higher power
- Energy-related environmental changes: Consequences for crop yields, global economy
- MITEI supports student innovators to help reduce MIT's energy, environmental footprint
