Energy

Energy council launches series

September 21, 2005

MIT's solar car Tesseract, which recently place third in the North American Solar Challenge, crosses the border at Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Sun shines on solar car team

MIT vehicle takes 3rd place in 2,500-mile race

August 5, 2005

MIT Professor John Heywood speaks at an MIT conference in April. In July, he testified before Congress on the need to limit U.S. fuel consumption.

Heywood to U.S.: Support fuel efficiency

July 29, 2005

MIT takes on world's energy crisis

June 8, 2005

MIT, Kuwait foundation announce partnership to advance management of water, energy resources

May 12, 2005

Best investor pitches rewarded

May 11, 2005

Entertainers from Acorn Event Productions perform for those who visited the Stata Center lobby on April 28 in one of many events held on campus in celebration of MIT's Earth Day.

Campus events celebrate the earth

May 4, 2005

MIT Professor John Heywood, director of the Sloan Automotive Laboratory, far right, makes a point at the Alliance for Global Sustainability gathering on March 21 while panel members Leena Srivastava, executive director of The Energy and Resources Institute, India, and Professor David Marks, director of MIT's Laboratory for Energy and the Environment, look on.

Leaders meet at MIT to tackle world energy woes

April 4, 2005

MIT graduate students in urban planning visit the U.S. Geological Survey. From left: students Anna Brown and Lindsay Campbell; USGS director Charles Groat; students Jennifer Peyser, , Basilia Yao and Peter Brandenburg; and Herman Karl, co-director of the MIT-USGS Science Impact Collaborative.

D.C. trip focuses on resolving environmental disputes

March 30, 2005

City of Cambridge truck that will be outfitted with diesel-emission controls through an EPA-funded collaboration between MIT and Cambridge.

Cambridge, MIT win EPA grant to cut diesel emissions

February 23, 2005

A schematic cross section of the wall of an engine cylinder and the piston.

Subtle changes will make a workhorse engine cleaner, more efficient

January 31, 2005

MIT and Columbia University researchers have begun an experiment at the Plasma Fusion and Science Center that could lead to a new source of energy. Key to the work is this huge vessel reminiscent of a spaceship.

MIT, Columbia begin new 'hot' fusion experiment

December 7, 2004

Shuguang Zhang (left), associate director of the Center for Biomedical Engineering, holds a spinach solution, the active component in a completed solar cell. Recent graduate Patrick Kiley, holding a completed chip, and Professor Marc Baldo of electrical engineering and computer sciences complete the team.

Green, leafy spinach may soon power more than Popeye's biceps

September 15, 2004

MIT's plasmatron coupled with an exhaust treatment catalyst removed 90 percent of the smog-producing nitrogen oxides (NOx) emitted from this bus.

MIT's plasmatron cuts diesel bus emissions, promises better gas engine efficiency

October 16, 2003

MIT's annual autonomous robot-building course, 6.270, consumes mountains of LEGOs and round-the-clock adrenalin from its eager participants. Teams work throughout IAP to create the snappish little rovers, each with its unique plot for victory. The course culminated in a frenzied contest, held in Room 26-100, on Jan. 30.

Green projects cool for Cambridge

February 5, 2003

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