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ISSUE #272

August 18, 2022


📖  FEATURED
A new method boosts wind farms’ energy output, without new equipment
MIT News
Engineers at MIT and elsewhere have found that the energy output of wind farm installations can be increased by modeling the wind flow of the entire collection of turbines—rather than treating each wind turbine individually.
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📖  WHAT TO READ
Stranded assets could exact steep costs on fossil energy producers and investors
MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change
To avert the worst impacts of climate change, most of the world’s known fossil fuel reserves must be kept in the ground, says a new study in Nature. Researchers at the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change estimate the current global asset value of untapped fossil fuels through 2050 under various climate-policy scenarios to determine the asset value losses on fossil-energy producers and shareholders amid the low-carbon energy transition.
Energy-saving MIT tech boosts the boiling of water
News Atlas
A novel surface treatment by Evelyn Wang (Mechanical Engineering) and Postdoc Youngsup Song allows water to reach a boiling point more easily and with less energy needed. With further development, the researchers hope this could be used in applications such as the steam-powered generation of electricity or the cooling of electronics.

Related: “MIT engineers design surfaces that make water boil more efficiently” — MIT News, July 12, 2022
Harry Tuller honored for career advancing solid-state chemistry and electrochemistry
MIT News
Harry Tuller (Materials Science and Engineering) was named a 2022 Materials Research Society Fellow for his career-long work in solid-state chemistry and electrochemistry. His research involves the movement of electric charges through solids, which could lead to better-performing fuel cells and batteries.
Somerville startup has a cool take on air conditioning
Boston Globe
Transaera, a company founded by Mircea Dincă (Chemistry) and Sorin Grama (D-Lab), is dedicated to designing air conditioners that require significantly less energy.
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📺 WHAT TO WATCH (AND LISTEN TO)
Audio article: "Lessons from energy leaders”
Energy Reads / MITEI
Listen to hand-picked audio articles covering the latest in energy from MIT. In this episode we read “Lessons from energy leaders,” which describes MITEI's Independent Activities Period course "Leading the Energy Transition." This class connects students with practitioners and experts to inspire new leadership in the clean energy transition.

Listen on our website or your favorite podcast app, including Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, and Spotify.

  Listen.
Podcast: HIBT Lab! Quaise Energy: Carlos Araque
NPR’s How I Built This with Guy Raz
Quaise Energy co-founder Carlos Araque SB ’01, SM ’02 speaks with Guy Raz, host of NPR’s How I Built This, about his time on the MIT Electric Vehicle Team, starting his company, and the future of geothermal energy.

  Listen.

Related: “Tapping into the million-year energy source below our feet” — MIT News, June 28, 2022
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🗓️  WHAT TO DO
Fall MITx courses from MITEI
Open now for enrollment
Energy Economics and Policy will be offered September 13 – December 6, 2022. In this course, students learn the economic principles and characteristics of various interrelated energy markets. Students will study policy options and market mechanisms to drive more sustainable and equitable energy access. 
Register.

Sustainable Energy will be offered September 13 – December 13, 2022. In this course, students learn how to critically analyze modern energy technologies from engineering and socio-political perspectives, and gain the skills necessary to help the world meet rising energy demand while reducing carbon dioxide and the other greenhouse gas emissions driving climate change.
Register.
MIT Conference on Mining, Environment, and Society
September 7-9,10:00 am-1:30 pm ET (Virtual)
In the face of the urgent threat of climate change, economies are undergoing a transition from conventional to renewable sources of energy. What does this mean for the world’s future resource needs? We can expect to see less extraction of coal and oil—but more mining of metals like lithium, copper, cobalt, and nickel, which come with their own social and environmental impacts. This conference will bring together social and natural scientists, policy makers, industry stakeholders, and environmental organizations to examine the nature of these conflicting challenges and explore opportunities to collaborate for solutions.

The event is one of a series led by MIT’s Environmental Solutions Initiative to examine the environmental and social considerations of specific industries. For more information, please contact: esi-mine@mit.edu.

Register.
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✍️  WHERE TO APPLY
The 2022 U.S. C3E poster competition
Applications due: Friday, September 1, 11:59 pm ET
Students and early-career researchers are invited to participate in a poster competition at the annual U.S. C3E Symposium and Awards, which will be held on November 2 in Washington, D.C. The poster competition exposes symposium attendees to cutting-edge research in a variety of clean energy fields. A poster committee with wide-ranging expertise will select the most compelling poster submissions for presentation at the symposium with an eye toward diversity of institution, topic, and discipline. Students and postdocs who are selected to present at the symposium will be eligible to win a cash prize. Awardees will be selected by the C3E poster committee and announced at the symposium. The poster presenter must be a female-identifying undergraduate, graduate student, or postdoctoral researcher currently undertaking the research project presented.

Learn more and apply by: Friday, September 1 at 11:59 pm ET.
2023 MIT Energy Conference leadership positions
Apply now for a 2023 MIT Energy Conference leadership position. Founded in 2006, the MIT Energy Conference is the largest student-led energy and climate conference in the world, bringing together over 600+ industry professionals, investors, scholars, and policy makers. Last year, the conference had around 600 in-person attendees, with another 400 joining virtually from across the globe. Learn more and read a summary of last year’s event on the conference website. Next year’s conference will be held on Wednesday, April 5 and Thursday, April 6, 2023, with an emphasis on the technologies, policies, and geopolitics of the global clean energy transition at this pivotal time to tackle climate change.

Detailed position descriptions are in the application form. Direct any questions regarding the positions and the application process to Anne Liu and Shreyaa Raghavan.

Apply.
NASA's Gateways to Blue Skies: Clean Aviation Energy competition
Through its Gateways to Blue Skies: Clean Aviation Energy (aka: Blue Skies) competition, NASA seeks to investigate alternative aviation energy sources that, if developed, could be part of the solution to aviation's climate impacts. The collegiate-level competition asks teams to conceptualize the source-to-flight lifecycle of one potential clean energy source of the 2050s, in terms of feasibility, viability, and climate impact. Blue Skies expands engagement between universities and NASA’s University Innovation Project with the intent to reach as many college students as possible.

Submissions from ANY and ALL academic levels (i.e., freshman, sophomore, junior, senior, and graduate) and majors are highly encouraged and anticipated. The purpose of this competition is to encourage diverse, multi-disciplinary teams of college students to explore and contribute unique systems-level ideas and analysis of the source-to-flight lifecycle of future zero-emissions aviation propulsion energy sources.

Apply.
MITEI–Commonwealth Fusion Systems Program Manager
MITEI and Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) are seeking a program manager to lead operations and provide support to the program director of the MITEI/CFS program. The principal responsibility will be to organize, coordinate, and streamline the project management of a broad portfolio of concurrently running research projects at MIT.

Apply.
MITEI Development Officer
MITEI is looking for a development officer to support its mission, to work closely with the director and executive director, to engage with current donors and funders, and to grow MITEI’s base of support.

Apply.
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Each molecule wants to find a partner zeolite, and each zeolite wants to find a partner molecule. But it’s not enough to find a good dance partner from the perspective of only one dancer. The potential partner could prefer to dance with someone else, after all. So it needs to be a particularly good pairing.”

— Daniel Schwalbe-Koda PhD ’22 on determining optimal molecule and zeolite framework pairings.
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