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Tao Laoban works at cleaning one of the concrete solar cookers used in Tibet. A team of students, including some from MIT, has developed a more portable solar cooker.

Harnessing the Tibetan sun

Student project aims to reduce deforestation and lung disease

June 4, 2008

Everything new under the sun

MIT group will chart the course for solar energy

May 29, 2008

New class to focus on 'physics of energy'

May 29, 2008

The state of the art batteries used to Porsche into an electric car, shown installed in the trunk.

MIT student ingenuity plus high-tech batteries yields advanced all-electric Porsche

May 21, 2008

Hope on the horizon: Biosolar Cells

May 21, 2008

Hope on the horizon: Electrochemical Energy

May 21, 2008

Hope on the Horizon: Fusion

May 21, 2008

The new, thin material developed by MIT engineers for use in methanol fuel cells.

MIT creates new material for fuel cells

Increases power output by more than 50 percent

May 16, 2008

Members of the grand-prize-winning team in the MIT 100k Competition, from left to right, Krishna Yeshwant, Roozbeh Ghaffari, Hayat Sindi, Carol Waghorne, Jon Puz, Gilbert Tang.

Entrepreneurship contests reward energy, diagnosis plans

May 16, 2008

MIT students work on a new kind of solar generator that employs low-cost materials. Here they mount the frame of the concentrator (which will be mounted with mirrors) on the base near Tang Hall on Memorial Drive.

Harnessing sunlight on the cheap

MIT student project aims to develop cost-efficient solar power

May 6, 2008

MIT examines reality of slashing vehicle fuel use

May 6, 2008

At MIT, Bingaman pushes amped-up U.S. energy policies

April 29, 2008

Emanuel E. Landsman '58, SM '59, ScD '66 and his wife, Sheila E. Landsman, have given $4 million to the MIT Laboratory for Electromagnetic and Electronic Systems and the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Landsman is shown here with Associate Professor David Perreault, left, the inaugural holder of the Landsman Career Development Professorship.

Landsman gift aids electric energy-related engineering at MIT

April 25, 2008

Martin Fisher has won the 2008 Lemelson-MIT Award for Sustainability for his work helping lift African farmers out of poverty through a combination of technological invention and business development.

KickStart co-founder receives $100,000 Lemelson-MIT Award for Sustainability

Inventor's irrigation pumps help lift African farmers out of poverty

April 23, 2008

Deval Patrick addresses a crowd at MIT on Earth Day, April 22. The Massachusetts governor told the crowd that positioning the state as a center of innovation and clean energy alternatives could result in significant economic benefits.

Governor says Mass. can reap benefits from clean energy

April 23, 2008

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MIT creates new material for fuel cells

Entrepreneurship contests reward energy, diagnosis plans

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MIT examines reality of slashing vehicle fuel use

At MIT, Bingaman pushes amped-up U.S. energy policies

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Governor says Mass. can reap benefits from clean energy

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