Explained: Generative AI’s environmental impact - MIT News
Jan 17, 2025 · Plus, generative AI models have an especially short shelf-life, driven by rising demand for new AI applications. Companies release new models every few weeks, so the …
Using liquid air for grid-scale energy storage - MIT News
Apr 10, 2025 · The model then draws on state-of-the-art pricing data that’s released every year by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and is widely used by energy modelers …
Ensuring a durable transition - MIT News
Nov 15, 2024 · And one-in-16 new jobs nationwide were in clean energy, with clean energy jobs growing more than three times faster than job growth economy-wide” In this rapid expansion, …
New facility to accelerate materials solutions for fusion energy
Jun 9, 2025 · By utilizing this approach, the PSFC is executing a major public-private partnership in fusion energy, realizing a research model that the U.S. fusion community has only recently …
Preparing Taiwan for a decarbonized economy - MIT News
Nov 4, 2024 · Taiwan’s Innovative Green Economy Roadmap (TIGER) is a two-year program with the MIT Energy Initiative, exploring ways that industry and government can promote and adopt …
New fuel cell could enable electric aviation - MIT News
May 27, 2025 · MIT engineers developed a fuel cell that offers more than three times as much energy per pound compared to lithium-ion batteries. Powered by a reaction between sodium …
Power when the sun doesn’t shine - MIT News
Feb 29, 2024 · A study by the nonprofit LDES (Long Duration Energy Storage) Council pegs the long-duration energy storage market at between 80 and 140 terawatt-hours by 2040. “That’s a …
Unlocking the secrets of fusion’s core with AI-enhanced simulations
Feb 18, 2025 · It only took three additional iterations of CGYRO to explore an alternate scenario that predicted ITER could produce almost the same amount of energy with about half the input …
Recovering from the past and transitioning to a better energy …
Jun 10, 2025 · Transitioning to a decarbonized electricity system is one piece of the puzzle. Growing amounts of solar and wind energy — along with nuclear, hydropower, and …
MIT Climate and Energy Ventures class spins out entrepreneurs — …
Jan 28, 2025 · The pair also launched the Climate and Energy Prize around the same time, which continues today and recently received over 150 applications from teams from around the …