Energy Research Project for Alternative Energy, Renewable Energy, and Green Energy Technologies

1. Revolutionizing medicine, one chip at a time
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... key to developing small wearable and implantable medical monitors is an ultra-low-power chip for interfacing to biomedical sensors, signal processing, energy processing and communications, developed by ...

2. In Profile: Alex Slocum
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... the commander-in-chief his novel concept to store some of the energy harvested by offshore wind farms. Devices for doctors One of the programs Slocum has been especially interested in is a class that ...

3. How to turn blueprints green
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Even in today’s increasingly energy-conscious world, it’s rare for the subject of energy efficiency to be addressed in the early stages of designing a new building, whether it’s a single-family home or ...

4. Power from motion and vibrations
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... last month in the IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits. Big steps toward tiny power There are a number of different approaches to harnessing vibrational energy, some using magnetic or electric fields. ...

5. China serious about renewable energy
(Feed Articles / ENN - Energy Research News)

China plans to build a national renewable energy center to enhance the country's clean energy development, the China Daily reported, citing a government official. The center, still ...

6. A silver lining to the Copenhagen cloud?
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... a “success” at the time. The Copenhagen conference “has elicited some strong reactions, both positive and negative,” said MIT Energy Initiative Director Ernest J. Moniz as he introduced the panelists ...

7. First germanium laser
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... Lasers made from semiconductors convert the energy of electrons — particles of charge — into photons — particles of light. Semiconductors come in two varieties: those with direct band gaps, like gallium ...

8. Levitating magnet brings space physics to fusion
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... as a new way of creating a power-producing plant based on nuclear fusion — the process that generates the sun’s prodigious output of energy. Fusion has been a cherished goal of physicists and energy researchers ...

9. Masdar Institute To Build Bioenergy Project
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

The Masdar Institute of Science and Technology, Boeing, Etihad Airways and Honeywell's UOP this week announced an agreement to establish a research and demonstration project called the Sustainable Bioenergy ...

10. Figuring out where to put the carbon
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To meet our immediate energy needs without exacerbating climate change, most experts agree, we’ll need to find a way to store the carbon dioxide given off by the combustion of coal, oil and natural gas. ...

11. Reinventing The Wheel
(Feed Articles / Alternative Energy News Top Stories)

When necessary and conducive atmosphere is being created for research in alternative energy field we are getting so many diverse projects in many fields that sometimes it seems mind boggling. When we ...

12. Music at MIT hitting all the right notes
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... computer algorithms, rocket science, quantum physics and cutting-edge efforts to cure cancer and solve the energy crisis. Harbison and the music scene at MIT are among the Institute's best-kept secrets, ...

13. Closing in on dark matter?
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... very small. However, they may occasionally bounce off an atomic nucleus, leaving a small amount of energy that is detectable under the right conditions. Those rare interactions can be easily masked by ...

14. MIT’s big wheel in Copenhagen
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... developed by researchers at MIT, can store energy every time the rider puts on the brakes, and then give that power back to provide a boost when going uphill or to add a burst of speed in traffic. But ...

15. Their infinite wisdom
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... such as naming objects. “It is more a conveyance of energy, than a conveyance of logic,” Mazur says. Religion could not trigger precise mathematical moves, he thinks, but it provided the Russians with ...

16. MIT goes to Copenhagen
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... are live-blogging from the event. Another student is attending with the support of the MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI) and will take part in a student-led collaborative project on climate change. On Dec. ...

17. MIT goes to Copenhagen
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... are live-blogging from the event. Another student is attending with the support of the MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI) and will take part in a student-led collaborative project on climate change. On Dec. ...

18. Mainstream Visions
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

The green revolution goes beyond financing research and development. It is also helping to create a robust national market for existing technologies and shovel-ready projects.

19. DOE & USDA Select Projects For US $24M in Biomass R&D Grants
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

The U.S. Departments of Agriculture and Energy have selected to receive more than US $24 million in grants to research and develop technologies to produce biofuels, bioenergy and high-value biobased products. ...

20. Recovery Act Announcement: DOE to Invest $18 Million in Small Business Clean Energy Innovation Projects
(Feed Articles / EERE - Energy Research News)

U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu today announced more than $18 million in funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to support small business innovation research, development, and deployment ...

21. ET: Check your voicemail
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... a basis for photosynthesis, the energy source for nearly all terrestrial life forms. The targets were carefully chosen, too — three nearby stars, ranging from 12 to 30 light years away, that are similar ...

22. Liquid battery big enough for the electric grid?
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There’s one major drawback to most proposed renewable-energy sources: their variability. The sun doesn’t shine at night, the wind doesn’t always blow, and tides, waves and currents fluctuate. That’s why ...

23. Good food nation
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... that go beyond the price of food. Another Iowa study suggests that food production incurs additional costs of $6 billion to $16 billion when factors such as energy use and health care are included. As ...

24. The politics of climate fixes
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... were pressuring political leaders to delay any action on controlling carbon emissions now see a new clean-energy future as an opportunity. Helped along by President Barack Obama’s framing of the issue, ...

25. Blowin' in the wind
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... In addition to providing some power for lighting on the Briggs Field, the turbine would provide a teaching and research tool for MIT students. Already, the spring-semester class Projects in Energy plans ...

26. DOE Awards $151 Million in Recovery Act Funding for ARPA-E Projects
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To foster advanced energy efficiency technological innovation, DOE has funded 37 projects through the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy, or ARPA-E. The funds are meant to support high-risk, high-reward ...

27. New methods are changing old materials
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... of nuclear power plants seen by many as an important low-carbon energy source to replace plants that consume fossil fuels. Predicting steel's behavior "It's a great challenge," Yip says. "If we want ...

28. MIT welcomes President Obama
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... Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick were expected to be present at noon in Kresge Auditorium for President Obama's remarks on "American leadership in clean energy." The talk comes as Congress gears up ...

29. Energy savings in black and white
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... conditioning has to work harder. In most places, the summertime penalty is greater than the wintertime gain, it turns out, so that's why many people, including U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu, strongly ...

30. How to limit risk of climate catastrophe
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... MIT model is the only one that interactively includes detailed treatment of possible changes in human activities as well — such as the degree of economic growth, with its associated energy use, in different ...