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Graduate student in urban studies and planning Michael Hogan, left, andÂ Larry Susskind, Ford Professor of Urban and Environmental Planning, discuss Hogan's thesis on government rules and renewable energy technologies.

Renewable energy regulations may miss the mark, says MIT graduate student

Research shows different approach is needed

October 1, 2008

Team Heliotrope demonstrates its sun-tracking technology that won first prize in an MIT competition aimed at developing innovative energy technologies. At left is team member George Whitfield, a graduate student in materials science. His teammate and fellow grad student Vyom Sharma is at right. The third member, Forrest Liau, is not shown. <a onclick="MM_openBrWindow('madmec-4-enlarged.html','','w...

Sun-tracking device wins student prize

Window coatings, wind generators and power unit also win

September 19, 2008

Ray Magliozzi, right, of NPR's 'Car Talk,' listens to MIT students and staff on Sept. 19. Magliozzi and his brother, Tom, who are alumni of MIT, toured the campus to see up-and-coming energy technologies being developed at the school. From left are sophomores Mike Roberts and Rachel Roberts of the MIT Solar Electric Vehicle Team, and MIT staff member Brenda Richard.

Click and Clack glimpse cars of the future

NPR's Magliozzi brothers in 'chock-full' tour of MIT

September 19, 2008

Rudie Berkhout's "Delta II" is among the works of art that make up the MIT Museum's second annual winter holography exhibition.

MITEI awards second round of seed grants

September 18, 2008

Team led by MIT, Caltech wins $20 million grant

Funds to support push for solar-fuel power plants

August 4, 2008

Daniel G. Nocera, the Henry Dreyfus Professor of Energy at MIT, has developed a simple method to split water molecules and produce oxygen gas, a discovery that paves the way for large-scale use of solar power.

'Major discovery' from MIT primed to unleash solar revolution

Scientists mimic essence of plants' energy storage system

July 31, 2008

Organic solar concentrators collect and focus different colors of sunlight. Solar cells can be attached to the edges of the plates. By collecting light over their full surface and concentrating it at their edges, these devices reduce the required area of solar cells and consequently, the cost of solar power. Stacking multiple concentrators allows the optimization of solar cells at each wavelength,...

MIT opens new 'window' on solar energy

Cost effective devices expected on market soon

July 10, 2008

Fact Sheet: MIT's solar concentrators

July 10, 2008

Chemistry professor Jonas Peters, Dan Nocera, Henry Dreyfus Professor of Energy, and Chris Cummins survey Nocera's piece of their solar energy work on artificial photosynthesis in Nocera's lab.

Harnessing solar energy like plants do

MIT chemists see near-term promise in mimicking photosynthesis

June 20, 2008

Matt Ritter, Doug Wood, Spencer Ahrens and Micah Sze mount one of the 10-inch by 12-foot mirror panels in place.

MIT prototype solar dish passes first tests

Low-cost system could revolutionize global energy production

June 18, 2008

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