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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
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
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
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
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
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 ”
A nonflammable battery to power a safer, decarbonized future 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 sectors The company’s electrodes use relatively stable, abundant materials, and its electrolyte is primarily water with some nontoxic add-ons
New fuel cell could enable electric aviation - MIT News MIT engineers developed a fuel cell that offers more than three times as much energy per pound compared to lithium-ion batteries Powered by a reaction between sodium metal and air, the device could be lightweight enough to enable the electrification of airplanes, trucks, or ships
Engineers develop an efficient process to make fuel from carbon dioxide “The formate economy is an intriguing concept because metal formate salts are very benign and stable, and a compelling energy carrier,” says Ted Sargent, a professor of chemistry and of electrical and computer engineering at Northwestern University, who was not associated with this work