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- Using liquid air for grid-scale energy storage - MIT News
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 worldwide The NREL dataset forecasts prices, construction and retirement of specific types of electricity generation and storage facilities, and more, assuming eight
- Transforming fusion from a scientific curiosity into a powerful clean . . .
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 major fusion experiment in MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center that Hartwig needed to do to graduate Hartwig was able to finish his PhD, and the scare didn’t dissuade
- A new approach could fractionate crude oil using much less energy
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 for crude oil fractionation, MIT engineers have developed a membrane that filters the components of crude oil by their molecular size
- Ensuring a durable transition - MIT News
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, the U S Department of Energy (DoE) is prioritizing economically marginalized places, according to Zoe Lipman, lead for good jobs and labor standards in the Office of Energy
- Explained: Generative AI’s environmental impact - MIT News
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 energy used to train prior versions goes to waste, Bashir adds New models often consume more energy for training, since they usually have more parameters than their predecessors
- Study shows how households can cut energy costs - MIT News
In the U S , separate research has shown that about three in 10 households report trouble paying energy bills To conduct the experiment, the researchers ran two versions of an energy coaching intervention In one version, 67 households received one report on their energy usage, along with coaching about how to increase energy efficiency
- Power when the sun doesn’t shine - MIT News
A study by the nonprofit LDES (Long Duration Energy Storage) Council pegs the long-duration energy storage market at between 80 and 140 terawatt-hours by 2040 “That’s a really big number,” Chiang notes “Every 10 people on the planet will need access to the equivalent of one EV [electric vehicle] battery to support their energy needs ”
- Taking the “training wheels” off clean energy | MIT News . . .
The good: Clean energy investment in the United States hit an all-time high of $272 billion in 2024 The bad: Announcements of future investments have tailed off And the ugly: Macro conditions are making it more difficult for utilities and private enterprise to build out the clean energy infrastructure needed to meet growing energy demands
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