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The New Eni-MIT Solar Frontiers Center
The timing could not have been moreperfect for the opening of the Eni-MIT Solar Frontiers Center, which opened on the institute’s campus last pastweek. It’s no secret clean energy is helping investment and jobs, and the development of solar technology is a competitive and lucrative component. The new facilityhopes to keep the momentum moving forward. [...]
MIT Develops Printable Solar on Paper
Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology havedeveloped a new technology that allows solar cells to be coated onpaper. The printed solar cells are still in the research phase and might be years away from being commercialized. The technique involves thecoating of organic semiconductor material on paper using a processsimilar to an inkjet printer. The [...]
MIT 3D Solar Panel Structures Increase Efficiency
The Massachusetts Institute of Tehcnology ‘s (MIT) answer to creating a high efficiency solar panel takes shape in the form of 3D, origami folding structures. When someone says solar panel, we think flat, sleek-looking installations in open fields or onroof tops. The panels are intentionally flat to avoid "shadowing"(covered areas that would reduce efficiency). MIT wants [...]
Researchers Use Sunlight to Split Water at MIT
A team of researchers at MIT have developed a process to replicate the natural process of photosynthesis in plants by engineering the M13bacterial virus that can split water into its constituent molecules that is hydrogen and oxygen using abundant solar energy. The team hopes that the process can further be used to create hydrogen efficiently [...]
MIT Harnesses Molecule Power
Chalk up more remarkable skills for carbon nanotubes. Researchers at MIT have discovered that carbon nanotubes can convertheat into electricity with surprisingly efficient results. The amountof power released in the experiments greatly exceeded the mathematicalpredictions. Potentially, the discovery could lead to autonomous sensors the sizeof a grain of rice, smaller bodily implants or batteries that [...]
Color-Changing Roof Tiles At MIT
Energy Secretary Steven Chu says painting all the nation’s black roofs a heat-reflecting white could cut global warming. But white isn’t that popular a color for rooftops. And what aboutwintertime, when black roofs help cut home heating bills by absorbingthe sun’s heat? A team of graduate students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology think they [...]
Modest CO2 Cap Better than No CO2 Cap: MIT
Moderatecarbon-reduction policies can substantially lower the risk of futureclimate change, according to new research by climate scientists at MIT’s Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change. Relatively modest emissions-control policies can have a big impacton the odds of the most damaging climate outcomes. For any givenclimate model scenario, there is always a [...]
Hi-Tech Solar Bus Stop
Asimple way to reduce your personal carbon footprint is making use ofservices such as buses and trains to go to your office and back home.However, tempting car owners to leave their luxuries at home and waitfor a bus to their destination to arrive seems a tough ask. MITarchitects are envisioning a future where people won’t [...]