Energy

Harnessing nature’s solar cells

Photovoltaic panels made from plant material could become a cheap, easy alternative to traditional solar cells.

February 3, 2012

New MIT research suggests that electric delivery trucks, like this one, can help both the environment and the business bottom line.

Driving the green

New study suggests that electric-powered trucks will save money for businesses.

February 1, 2012

Jake Whitcomb, SDM '12: Sustainability Requires Systems Engineering

January 30, 2012

For businesses, going green brings in greenbacks

Study finds manufacturers leading the drive to make sustainability a mainstream — and profitable — business practice.

January 30, 2012

Solving energy problems, one molecule at a time

Materials scientist explores new possibilities in topics from molecules to rooftop solar panels.

January 26, 2012

Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering Assistant Professor Emilio Baglietto.

Emilio Baglietto: Better reactors grow from better simulations

January 24, 2012

As Assistant Professor of Engineering Systems at MIT, Jessika Trancik focuses her research on the evolution of technologies and on decomposing performance trajectories of energy systems. She is particularly interested in understanding the dynamics and limits of costs and carbon intensities of energy technologies, in order to inform climate change mitigation efforts.

Seminar challenges with systems approach to climate change

Energy Systems and Climate Change Mitigation tackles the multidimensional challenges of climate change.

January 20, 2012

David White, founding director of the MIT Energy Laboratory, dies at 89

January 18, 2012

Here comes the sun

A new sunflower-inspired pattern increases concentrated solar efficiency.

January 11, 2012

Research Scientist Valerie Karplus (right) has been working with Henry Jacoby (left), John Heywood, John Reilly, and others to examine different policy approaches to motivating drivers to consume less gasoline in their cars. Using a specially formulated model based on empirical data about people’s vehicle purchase and travel behavior, advanced vehicle types (including plug-in hybrids), and more,...

Designing policies to curb fuel use, GHG emissions

January 10, 2012

Christopher R. Knittel, the William Barton Rogers Professor of Energy Economics, discusses policy options for addressing climate change during an MIT Earth Week colloquium in April 2011. Knittel holds the first endowed chair enabled by MITEI in order to recruit faculty in key disciplines for MIT energy research and education.

Knittel named first energy faculty chair at MIT

January 5, 2012

Illustration of three white cars in a line, against a black background.

The case of the missing gas mileage

Automakers have made great strides in fuel efficiency in recent decades — but the mileage numbers of individual vehicles have barely increased. An MIT economist explains the conundrum.

January 4, 2012

Diverse microorganisms undergoing growth and reproduction. As organisms evolved from simple prokaryotes to unicellular eukaryotes to multicellular organisms their strategies for internal energy partitioning dramatically changed as illustrated by a recent mathematical model.

Microbe metabolism

For the smallest organisms, size determines how microbes spend energy.

January 4, 2012

A shale gas revolution?

MIT report shows prosperous shale gas market could hurt future R&D, if we let it.

January 3, 2012

Richard Lester, the Japan Steel Industry Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering and head of the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering.

How to kick-start new energy technologies

Three-year study produces proposals for boosting energy innovation to meet growing demand, curb global warming.

December 22, 2011

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