Sustainability

Exelon President and CEO Chris Crane (left) with MIT Energy Initiative Director Robert Armstrong

MIT Energy Initiative and Exelon collaborate on clean energy research through MITEI’s Low-Carbon Centers

Exelon’s MITEI membership will support research including energy storage, smarter grids, advanced nuclear generation, and solar energy.

February 25, 2016

Proposals submitted to the Climate CoLab contests will help crowdsource the makings of national and global climate action plans, like those agreed upon at the UN climate change conference in Paris last December.

MIT lab opens 10 contests on climate change

Proposals submitted will help crowdsource the makings of national and global climate action plans.

February 24, 2016

Will we ever stop using fossil fuels?

Not without a carbon tax, suggests a study by an MIT economist.

February 24, 2016

Boston Citywide Energy Model simulated energy use in a 200-by-200-meter grid for the City of Boston.

MIT researchers create citywide building energy model for Boston

Detailed model can help planners meet climate goals, increase resilience.

February 22, 2016

Professor of mechanical engineering Amos Winter (left) and graduate students Natasha Wright (on ladder) and Georgia Van de Zande assemble their desalination system a day before the USAID Desal Prize competition, which they won.

Cleaning water without the grid

MIT researchers have developed a solar-powered desalination system that could significantly increase the groundwater available for drinking in Indian villages.

February 16, 2016

“Using carbon pricing in combination with energy price reforms and renewable energy support, China could reach significant levels of emissions reduction without undermining economic growth,” says Valerie Karplus. Pictured is a photo of Beijing.

Study: China’s new policies will lower CO2 emissions faster, without preventing economic growth

MIT professor sees coal use peaking within next decade and emissions dropping soon after.

February 9, 2016

Priyanka Chatterjee ’15, a grad student in the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society, acts out the welcome video for a gardening app that could help homeowners reduce carbon emissions. Chatterjee and her teammates Casey Stelmach, a grad student at the MIT Sloan School of Management, and James Minor, a grad student in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, won the “be...

Coming together on climate

Hackathon for Climate brings students, faculty, staff, and alumni together on climate change solutions.

February 8, 2016

$This image of a simulated concrete sample shows the "packing fraction" which describes the fraction of the volume that is filled with solid material. In this case, the average packing fraction is 0.52. Colors indicate the variations within the sample, ranging from less than 0.4 to more than 0.64. The size of the cube is 0.6 microns (millionths of a meter).$

Riddle of cement’s structure is finally solved

Findings may guide development of formulas to make the material more durable, less CO2-intensive.

February 8, 2016

On Mapdwell’s satellite-map website, people can click on an individual roof to receive information about installation price, energy and financial savings, and environmental impact.

Realizing your true (solar) potential

Mapping website tells building owners if going solar is worth the cost of installation.

February 5, 2016

Dispatches from the Paris climate talks

MIT attendees of COP21 share experiences, perspectives on outcomes

February 2, 2016

"Even when you have great technology, you need some incentive for people to reduce pollution. We need to find ways to make the benefit of reducing pollution felt by the ones who are paying the cost of reducing pollution." —Ariel Zucker, MIT doctoral student in economics

Incentives matter

Working with the Tata Center, two MIT economics students are testing projects to reduce industrial pollution in India.

January 29, 2016

MIT on Climate = Science + Action

MIT will host a daylong symposium to address the nexus of science and action on climate change.

January 22, 2016

This GridForm model of a village in Bihar, India, shows the optimal layout of hardware for the load profiles of the community. Each building, color-coded by the cost (in Indian rupees) of supplying electricity to that structure, is wired to a central generation/storage node (solid lines), and the nodes are connected to each other (dotted lines).

Going off grid: Tata researchers tackle rural electrification

At MIT’s Tata Center for Technology and Design, researchers are exploring ways to extend electricity access to rural communities in India using microgrids.

January 21, 2016

Engineers at MIT have developed a queuing model that may help air traffic controllers direct departures more efficiently, minimizing runway congestion.

Cutting down runway queues

Model that predicts time from gate departure to takeoff could cut airport congestion, fuel waste.

January 14, 2016

MIT releases institutional greenhouse gas inventory

Data set a baseline for campus climate action.

January 13, 2016

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