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Researcher Finds Solar Power in Agricultural Waste

February 5, 2012

Every now and then we catch wind of a new solar power breakthrough. Often they are miles away from being commercially viable and represent the first steps of a research that needs further work on. But they indicate how much scope there is for research in the solar power field. Technorati Tags: Andreas Mershin, MIT, [...]

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MIT Researchers Create Better Lithium Batteries

July 29, 2011

Lithium-ion batteries are everywhere these days. From cellphones to electric cars, they dominate the market for rechargeable devices. One of the main challenges faced by the eletric vehicle industry is related to the energy density of electric car batteries. Technorati Tags: electric cars, lithium batteries, MIT Related Posts:Researcher Finds Solar Power in Agricultural WasteHalf of [...]

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Self-healing solar cells

September 10, 2010

One of the big stories this week about renewable energy came from MIT, where scientists have succeeded in replicating a natural process to increase the durability of solar cells. Technorati Tags: MIT, solar power efficiency, solar power research Related Posts:Promising Solar Power TechnologiesMIT Researchers Create Better Lithium BatteriesRelax: Solar Power May Be Getting More FlexibleMIT [...]

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MIT releases report on natural gas

June 28, 2010

According to a new MIT report, natural gas will play a leading role in reducing greenhouse-gas emissions over the next several decades, largely by replacing older, inefficient coal plants with highly efficient combined-cycle gas generation. That’s the conclusion reached by a comprehensive study of the future of natural gas conducted by an MIT study group [...]

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Trash Track: trash on display in New York and Seattle

September 18, 2009

Image via Wikipedia Not too long ago we wrote about MIT SENSEable City Lab’s Trash Track project, designed to get people thinking about what they throw away and how it impacts the environment. The project, which was funded by Waste Management, uses custom-designed electronic tags to track different types of waste on their final journey [...]

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