Environment and energy
Greenhouse gas can find a home underground
March 20, 2012
New MIT analysis shows there’s enough room to safely store at least a century’s worth of U.S. fossil fuel emissions.
Science and policy can catalyze each other, EPA head says
April 22, 2011
In MIT visit, Lisa Jackson discusses how technology can affect government regulations.
Center for Future Civic Media releases Landman Report Card: a resource to support citizens negotiating with big energy
January 22, 2010
The easy-to-use, web-based resource helps landowners educate and assist each other as they negotiate drilling rights with oil and gas company representatives
Also labeled: Community
A greener way to get electricity from natural gas
December 3, 2009
A proposed system would use solid-oxide fuel cells to produce power without sending CO2 into the atmosphere. But can it compete with conventional power plants?
Also labeled: Chemistry and chemical engineering, Energy
Deshpande Center's latest funding cycle supports goal of 'idea to impact'
October 17, 2009
Since 2002, the Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation has funded more than 80 projects with over $9 M in grants. The center supports a wide range of emerging technologies including biotechnology, biomedical devices, information technology, new materials, tiny tech, and energy innovations. Eighteen projects have spun out of the center as independent startups, having collectively raised over $150 million in outside financing from investors.
Hidden waves pack a big punch
September 18, 2009
Thomas Peacock sheds light on an odd but powerful phenomenon of sea and sky
Human, solar power prominent in 2.009 products
December 15, 2004
MIT to play key role in national energy lab
November 9, 2004
Also labeled: Nuclear science and engineering, National relations and service
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