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Evaluating the impacts of the global energy system

Taiwan’s Innovative Green Economy Roadmap (TIGER)

Chemical reactions for the energy transition

New insights reveal pathways to improvement

Finding novel materials for practical devices

New machine learning technique can help

Understanding how plants use sunlight

Possible pathway to more biomass and crops

The Future of Nuclear Energy in a Carbon-Constrained World

Getting the world off dirty diesels

Gasoline-alcohol engines for heavy-duty trucks

Electrochemical manufacturing of methanol from carbon dioxide feedstocks

Converting greenhouse gas into fuel

New catalyst provides design principles for producing fuels from carbon dioxide emissions

Deep borehole disposal of spent nuclear fuel

A new look for nuclear power

Solar photovoltaic technologies

MIT researchers explore silicon and beyond

The Future of Natural Gas

The Future of Geothermal Energy

The Future of Nuclear Power

Projects

Toward a net-zero future by scalable conversion of methane to hydrogen and carbon nanotubes

Electrochemical approaches to understanding and controlling thermal CO2 and biomass hydrogenation catalysis

Analysis of national hydrogen supply chain scenarios

Machine-learning enabled droplet-photobioreactor platform for efficient microalgae production and economically feasible CO2 capture and conversion

Membraneless electrolyzers for efficient hydrogen production using nanoengineered 3D gas capture electrode architectures

Pathways to hydrogen and methanol using combinations of municipal solid waste, biomass, natural gas and Electric Power

Aqueous ionic liquid microstructures for efficient lipid extraction in microalgal biofuel production

Scalability of biomass availability for producing transportation fuels

Pathways towards gigaton scale low-carbon H2 production

Lower cost, CO2-free, H2 production from CH4 using liquid tin

System considerations in converting sugar mill to waste to bio-CNG

What is the best hydrogen carrier for long-distance distribution and storage?

Evaluating environmental impacts of hydrogen use and leakage

Electrosynthesis of “blue” ammonia from methane using protonic ceramic electrolyzers

Publications

The Role of Firm Low-Carbon Electricity Resources in Deep Decarbonization of Power Generation

September 2018

The Future of Nuclear Energy in a Carbon-Constrained World

September 2018

The benefits of nuclear flexibility in power system operations with renewable energy

May 2018

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Popular Science

MITEI Senior Research Scientist Sergey Paltsev weighs in on the roadblocks facing hydrogen fuel-cell vehicle adoption, stating "The answer is very simple: economics." Among other factors, the lack of fueling infrastructure is keeping these vehicles behind their electric counterparts.
Ensuring a durable transition

Progress on the energy transition depends on collective action benefiting all stakeholders, agreed participants in MITEI’s annual research conference.

Tugboat powered by ammonia sails for the first time, showing how to cut emissions from shipping

Associated Press

MIT startup Amogy is using ammonia produced by renewable energy as a carbon-free alternative for fueling tugboats. The 2,000-gallon tank of ammonia on the tugboat can power a 10–12-hour day at sea.

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Executive Director, Lab for Aviation and the Environment
Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
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Research Engineer
Plasma Science and Fusion Center
Fikile Brushett
Associate Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering
Sylvia Ceyer
Professor
Department of Chemistry
Yet-Ming Chiang
Professor
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Daniel Cohn
Research Scientist
MIT Energy Initiative
Olivier de Weck
Professor
Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Laurent Demanet
Professor
Department of Mathematics
Sili Deng
Assistant Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Mircea Dincă
Professor
Department of Chemistry
Alan Edelman
Professor
Department of Mathematics
Ariel Furst
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering
Rafael Gomez-Bombarelli
Associate Professor
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Angelo Gurgel
Research Scientist
MIT Energy Initiative
William H. Green
Director
MIT Energy Initiative; Department of Chemical Engineering
Bradford Hager
Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Earth Sciences
Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
Douglas Hart
Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Lin-Wen Hu
Senior Research Scientist
Nuclear Reactor Laboratory
Heather Kulik
Associate Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering
Ju Li
Professor
Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering
Mingda Li
Associate Professor
Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering
Yuming Liu
Senior Research Scientist
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Youssef Marzouk
Professor
Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Jennifer Morris
Principal Research Scientist
MIT Energy Initiative
Sergey Paltsev
Deputy Director, MIT Center for Sustainability Science and Strategy
MIT Energy Initiative
Matěj Peč
Assistant Professor
Department of Earth; Atmospheric; and Planetary Sciences
Desiree Plata
Associate Professor
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Kristala Prather
Department Head, Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering
Maggie Qi
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering
Alexander Radosevich
Professor
Department of Chemistry
Carlo Ratti
Professor
Department of Urban Studies and Planning
Michael S. Strano
Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering
Adam Schlosser
Senior Research Scientist
MIT Center for Global Change Science
Paul Sclavounos
Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Yang Shao-Horn
Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Koroush Shirvan
Associate Professor
Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering
Anthony Sinskey
Professor of Biology, Faculty Director of the Center for Biomedical Innovation
Department of Biology
Zachary Smith
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering
Susan Solomon
Professor
Department of Earth; Atmospheric; and Planetary Sciences
Gregory Stephanopoulos
Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering
Yogesh Surendranath
Professor
Department of Chemistry
Timothy Swager
Professor
Department of Chemistry
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Professor
Institute for Data, Systems, and Society
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Professor
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
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Vice Provost and Associate Vice President for Research, Office of the Provost
Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering
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Associate Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Kevin Woller
Principal Research Scientist
Plasma Science and Fusion Center
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Research Lead
MIT Energy Initiative

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