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Q&A: Options for the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant
MIT News
The Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant in California could simultaneously help stabilize the state’s electric grid, provide desalinated water, and provide carbon-free hydrogen fuel for transportation if its operation were extended to 2030 or 2045, says a new analysis from Jacopo Buongiorno (Nuclear Science and Engineering), John Lienhard (Mechanical Engineering, Abdul Latif Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab), and others.
Related: “Will the climate crisis force America to reconsider nuclear power?” —The Economist, 11/08/2021
Related: “Keeping California’s last nuclear plant can save money, climate: MIT-Stanford Study” —Bloomberg Green, 11/08/2021
Related: “Saving nuclear plant could help California hit climate goals” —Reuters, 11/08/2021
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A material thinner than human hair could slash carbon emissions
Bloomberg Green
Osmoses, an MIT spinout co-founded by 2019-2020 MIT Energy Fellow Francesco Benedetti, aims to reduce industrial carbon emissions and improve carbon capture by using a membrane material that’s thinner than human hair. “We envision applying our technology to increase the sustainability of existing infrastructure,” he says.
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MIT Energy Night 2021: Connecting global innovators to local talent
MIT News
The 2021 MIT Energy Night brought leading climate technology innovators from across the globe together both virtually and in person to discuss new and transformative technologies for the energy transition.
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COP26 is bringing many calls for action. Some are already taking action
The Washington Post
Many climate organizations, initiatives, and innovations are already working to make the declarations made at the COP26 conference a reality, including Jessika Trancik (Institute for Data, Systems, and Society), who developed a carbon counter that details the carbon impacts of different cars, and Form Energy, an MIT spinout using the oxidation process for grid-scale energy storage.
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Nuclear power is COP26’s quiet controversy
Time
Sergey Paltsev (MITEI, MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change) shares his thoughts on the economics and safety of nuclear energy.
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Historic alliance launches at COP26 to accelerate a transition to renewable energy, access to energy for all, and jobs
The Rockefeller Foundation
MITEI Deputy Director for Science and Technology Robert Stoner, in his role as secretary of the Global Commission to End Energy Poverty, participated in the launch at COP26 of The Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet. The Alliance aims to unlock $100 billion in public and private financing in order to reach one billion underserved people with reliable, renewable power; avoid and avert four billion tons of carbon emissions; and drive economic growth.
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Carbon dioxide removal: Carbon capture and storage, part 1
Climate Now
Carbon capture and storage technology will need to play a substantial role in net emissions reduction, but to do so it will have to scale up to billions of tons of capture annually. In Part I of Climate Now's two-part Carbon Capture and Storage series, Howard Herzog (MITEI) joins host Ozak Esu and Julio Friedmann to explain the science behind carbon capture, how much it costs, and who is leading the industry.
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Exploring why this nuclear fusion breakthrough matters
Undecided with Matt Ferrell
YouTuber Matt Ferrell discusses the history and science of nuclear fusion and talks with Martin Greenwald (MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center, Commonwealth Fusion Systems) on MIT and Commonwealth Fusion System’s use of high temperature superconductors to help achieve net-positive power from a fusion reactor.
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Former U.S. energy chief Moniz outlines top climate investment priorities
S&P Global Market Intelligence
Ernest Moniz, former U.S. Secretary of Energy and founding director of MITEI, lays out his top climate investment priorities, including long-duration energy storage, green hydrogen, carbon capture, and nuclear fusion.
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14th Annual Energy Africa Conference
November 11-12
The 14th Annual Energy Africa Conference will discuss unlocking Africa’s energy investments potential. Speakers include MITEI Deputy Director for Science and Technology Robert Stoner and visiting professor Ignacio Pérez-Arriaga.
Register.
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MITEI Research Scientist
MITEI is looking for a research scientist to support the energy system modeling and analysis activities of our new Future Energy Systems Center. The Center is a Member-supported consortium that focuses on accelerating the energy transition as emerging technology and policy, demographic trends, and economics reshape the landscape of energy supply and demand.
Apply.
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“Personal action, though essential, isn’t sufficient. Building a prosperous, safe, and equitable world requires that we transform our economy institutions. To do so we must act now. There is no time to waste.”
—John Sterman, the Jay W. Forrester Professor of Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management and a professor in the MIT Institute for Data, Systems, and Society, speaks with the Wall Street Journal on how he cuts his personal carbon footprint.
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Need a new book?
MITEI Senior Research Engineer Howard Herzog shares his top picks for books to help understand the causes and implications of climate change.
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