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Desalination system could produce freshwater that is cheaper than tap water
Engineers at MIT and in China are aiming to turn seawater into drinking water with a completely ... tested on the roof of an MIT building, efficiently converted the sun’s energy to evaporate water, which ... Guihua Yu, who develops sustainable water and energy storage systems at the University of Texas at ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/desalination-system-could-produce-freshwater-cheaper-tap-waterAn energy-storage solution that flows like soft-serve ice cream
Emre Gençer, a research scientist with the MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI) and a member of the team. “Our ... Narayanan, who conducted this work at MIT as part of his doctorate in mechanical engineering, is the lead ... Electrochemical Energy Lab; Gareth McKinley, the School of Engineering Professor of Teaching Innovation and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/energy-storage-solution-flows-soft-serve-ice-creamAffordable high-tech windows for comfort and energy savings
Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E). In late 2014, the MIT team received funding from ARPA-E, and other ... sponsors followed, including the MIT Energy Initiative through the MIT Tata Center for Technology and ... 2024 Nancy W. Stauffer | MIT Energy Initiative Horizontal Through MIT’s 2N Program and the MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/affordable-high-tech-windows-comfort-and-energy-savingsDemo Day features hormone-tracking sensors, desalination systems, and other innovations
MIT student teams celebrate business milestones at the capstone event for the 2025 delta v summer ... accelerator. Kresge Auditorium came alive Friday as MIT entrepreneurs took center stage to share their progress ... Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship. It also doubles as a celebration, with Trust Center Managing ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/demo-day-features-hormone-tracking-sensors-desalination-systems-and-other-innovationsEngineers devise a modular system to produce efficient, scalable aquabots
technologies, like the MIT team’s demonstration of the feasibility of hydrodynamic morphing in cellular systems ... MIT’s RoboTuna, for example, was composed of about 3,000 different parts and took about two years to ... design and build. Now, researchers at MIT and their colleagues — including one from the original RoboTuna ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-devise-modular-system-produce-efficient-scalable-aquabotsNew control system teaches soft robots the art of staying safe
Environmental Engineering, and an affiliate faculty with the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS). ... Monday, December 1, 2025 Rachel Gordon | MIT CSAIL Collaboration Horizontal New control system teaches ... efficiently. In MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and Laboratory for ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-control-system-teaches-soft-robots-art-staying-safeWhy have solar energy costs fallen?
investigator Jessika Trancik, associate professor in MIT's Institute for Data, Systems, and Society ... affiliates of the MIT Energy Initiative — and Robert Margolis of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. ... mechanisms driving PV system cost reductions, the MIT team will delve deeply into specific ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/why-have-solar-energy-costs-fallenSelf-powered sensor automatically harvests magnetic energy
MIT researchers have developed a battery-free, self-powered sensor that can harvest energy from ... -harvesting sensor that lets an engineer balance the available energy in the environment with their sensing needs. ... Donnal adds. “Energy-harvesting systems like this could make it possible to retrofit a wide variety of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/self-powered-sensor-automatically-harvests-magnetic-energyGovernment of India Taps MIT Expertise for Energy Solutions
Minister Piyush Goyal meets with MIT Energy Initiative and Tata Center leadership, says of India’s ... with researchers from the MIT Energy Initiative and Tata Center for Technology and Design on Sept. ... electrification goals: “We will make it happen.” India has set some of the most aggressive near-term energy goals ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/government-india-taps-mit-expertise-energy-solutionsEnergy storage from a chemistry perspective
the competitive landscape for energy storage companies looking to enhance power system flexibility ... Engineering and Tim Swager of the Department of Chemistry are longstanding MIT professors considered ... energy-power delivery.” PolyJoule is a Billerica, Massachusetts-based startup that’s looking to reinvent energy ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/energy-storage-chemistry-perspectiveNew general law governs fracture energy of networks across materials and length scales
environmental engineering at MIT. “This discovery has significant implications for the design of new materials, ... the durability of these materials asks: What is the energy required to fracture these diverse ... networks? A recently published paper by MIT researchers offers new insights. “Our findings reveal a simple, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-general-law-governs-fracture-energy-networks-across-materials-and-length-scalesIntroducing the MIT-GE Vernova Climate and Energy Alliance
MIT’s growing portfolio of initiatives around sustainable energy systems, including the Climate Project ... Five-year collaboration between MIT and GE Vernova aims to accelerate the energy transition and ... scale new innovations. MIT and GE Vernova launched the MIT-GE Vernova Energy and Climate Alliance on ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/introducing-mit-ge-vernova-climate-and-energy-allianceEmeritus: David Wilson was an early proponent of the concept of energy-use fees
a strategy, devised in the 1970s by MIT professor of mechanical engineering David Gordon Wilson, has been ... rebates would constitute a progressive system. The province of British Columbia has adopted such a system ... British Columbia’s system was “the best in the world.” Public policy and economics were not Wilson’s ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/emeritus-david-wilson-was-early-proponent-concept-energy-use-feesAdvancing the energy transition amidst global crises
mitigation is drastically short of what it needs to be,” said Robert C. Armstrong, MIT Energy Initiative ... Ida Green Professor of Physics and Engineering Systems Emeritus, founding director of MITEI, and ... that could shake up, and possibly accelerate, efforts to address climate change. At the MIT Energy ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/advancing-energy-transition-amidst-global-crisesAlum Ronan McGovern Brings Innovative Beer Filtration System to Market
Ronan McGovern, a postdoc in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, has been working on an ... MIT's Translational Fellows Program enables the move with special funding for entrepreneurs. ... as is typically done, McGovern has created a system that allows beer to be transported in chilled ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/alum-ronan-mcgovern-brings-innovative-beer-filtration-system-marketCrumpled Graphene Could Provide an Unconventional Energy Storage
systems. Like batteries, supercapacitors can store electrical energy, but they primarily do so ... creating extremely stretchable supercapacitors to store energy for flexible electronic devices. The finding ... is reported in the journal Scientific Reports by MIT’s Xuanhe Zhao, the Brit (1961) and Alex (1949) ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/crumpled-graphene-could-provide-unconventional-energy-storageProfessor Slocum Awarded 2014 Department of Energy Grant
Engineering red Maker slocum@mit.edu Profesor Slocum was awarded a 2014 Department of Energy NEUP grant to ... One of three MIT-led research teams to win a NEUP awards. Three MIT-led research teams have won ... awards from the Department of Energy’s Nuclear Energy University Programs (NEUP) initiative to support ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/professor-slocum-awarded-2014-department-energy-grantHow to tap the sun’s energy through heat as well as light
A new approach to harvesting solar energy, developed by MIT researchers, could improve efficiency ... systems could provide a way to circumvent a theoretical limit on the energy-conversion efficiency of ... energy storage, because of their reliance on heat. Some of the ways to further improve the system are ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-tap-sun%E2%80%99s-energy-through-heat-well-lightQ&A: Latifah Hamzah ’12 on creating sustainable solutions in Malaysia and beyond
Latifah Hamzah ’ 12 graduated from MIT with a BS in mechanical engineering and minors in energy ... electrical co-generation systems. After graduating from MIT, Hamzah worked as a subsea engineer at Shell ... participated in the MIT Energy Initiative’s Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) in the lab of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/qa-latifah-hamzah-%E2%80%9912-creating-sustainable-solutions-malaysia-and-beyondLatifah Hamzah
Latifah Hamzah ’ 12 graduated from MIT with a BS in mechanical engineering and minors in energy ... electrical co-generation systems. After graduating from MIT, Hamzah worked as a subsea engineer at Shell ... participated in the MIT Energy Initiative’s Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) in the lab of ...
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