Nuclear-fuel report challenges key assumptions
MIT study finds no shortage of uranium for nuclear energy for decades, but more research is needed to develop improved fuel-cycle options.
MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI)
New design-build class weaves nature into rural Cambodian school
Students take part in “Design for a Sustainable Future”
Explained: Bandgap
Understanding how electrons get excited is crucial to creating solar cells and light-emitting diodes
MITEI-led study offers comprehensive look at the future of natural gas
Researchers find significant potential for gas to displace coal, reducing greenhouse-gas emissions as a transition to a low-carbon future.
‘Efficiency Forward'
Ambitious collaboration between MIT and NSTAR aims to cut campus electricity use by 15 percent over 3 years.
Student-run MIT Energy Conference influences national legislation
Bingaman cites annual event as he introduces bill in U.S. Senate
3 Questions: Stephen Connors on offshore wind farms
What the federal approval of the Cape Wind project will mean for Massachusetts and the nation
Fund helps energy efficiency bloom across campus
Alumni gifts support the greening of MIT, and the resulting savings are being reinvested in similar projects.
Four decades of Earth Days
MIT plans a week of events and activities to mark Earth Day’s 40th anniversary.
Charting a course toward cleaner cars
MIT team recommends strategy for reducing automotive fuel use, emissions
Action needed to save climate, create jobs
MIT Energy Conference speakers see need to boost clean-energy businesses through a price on carbon and incentives for manufacturing
3 Questions: Hunt Allcott on behavioral economics and the energy crisis
Can understanding human irrationality help solve our energy problems? An MIT researcher explains
