Using liquid air for grid-scale energy storage - MIT News
Apr 10, 2025 · The model then draws on state-of-the-art pricing data that’s released every year by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and is widely used by energy modelers …
Ensuring a durable transition - MIT News
Nov 15, 2024 · And one-in-16 new jobs nationwide were in clean energy, with clean energy jobs growing more than three times faster than job growth economy-wide” In this rapid expansion, …
Explained: Generative AI’s environmental impact - MIT News
Jan 17, 2025 · Plus, generative AI models have an especially short shelf-life, driven by rising demand for new AI applications. Companies release new models every few weeks, so the …
New facility to accelerate materials solutions for fusion energy
Jun 9, 2025 · By utilizing this approach, the PSFC is executing a major public-private partnership in fusion energy, realizing a research model that the U.S. fusion community has only recently …
MIT Climate and Energy Ventures class spins out entrepreneurs — …
Jan 28, 2025 · The pair also launched the Climate and Energy Prize around the same time, which continues today and recently received over 150 applications from teams from around the …
A new approach could fractionate crude oil using much less energy
May 22, 2025 · Most of that energy goes into the heat needed to separate the components by their boiling point. In an advance that could dramatically reduce the amount of energy needed …
A nonflammable battery to power a safer, decarbonized future
Nov 21, 2024 · Now Alsym Energy has developed a nonflammable, nontoxic alternative to lithium-ion batteries to help renewables like wind and solar bridge the gap in a broader range of …
Transforming fusion from a scientific curiosity into a powerful …
Dec 11, 2024 · The problem got harder when, in Hartwig’s last year in graduate school, the Department of Energy announced plans to terminate funding for the Alcator C-Mod tokamak, a …
Photonic processor could enable ultrafast AI computations ... - MIT …
Dec 2, 2024 · Researchers developed a fully integrated photonic processor that can perform all the key computations of a deep neural network on a photonic chip, using light. This advance …
Unlocking the secrets of fusion’s core with AI-enhanced simulations
Feb 18, 2025 · It only took three additional iterations of CGYRO to explore an alternate scenario that predicted ITER could produce almost the same amount of energy with about half the input …