Electricity

Legatum Center awards seed grants

May 23, 2012

Program has now funded more than 100 projects since 2009.

Also labeled: Developing countries, Entrepreneurship, Innovation and inventions, International relations and collaborations, Legatum Center, Research, Students

No crystal ball for natural gas

May 22, 2012

Traditionally, oil prices have been used to gauge the natural gas market; but new research shows that the future of what is currently a cheap fuel is really anyone's guess.

Also labeled: Economic recession, Economics, Energy, Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, Market, Natural gas

The heat is on

March 30, 2012

New study of MIT buildings suggests additional approaches to energy efficiency.

Also labeled: Campus buildings and architecture, Campus services, Efficiency, Energy, Research, Urban studies and planning

Powering the Chinese dragon

March 26, 2012

China Light and Power’s Peter Littlewood talks with MIT researchers and students about the country’s strengths and the United States’s opportunity to embrace them.

Also labeled: Alternative energy, Carbon dioxide, China, Energy, Greenhouse gases, India, Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, Nuclear power and reactors, Wind

A novel way to concentrate sun’s heat

December 2, 2011

MIT researchers find a way to generate power without the usual mirror arrays.

Also labeled: Materials science, Photovoltaics, Physics, Solar, Thermoelectricity

Student project identifies improvements for campus PVs

November 30, 2011

Class works with Facilities to analyze existing conditions.

Also labeled: Campus buildings and architecture, MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI), Photovoltaics, Renewable, Solar, Students