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MITEI spinout Quaise Energy successfully demonstrates their geothermal energy drilling technology in the field

Quaise Energy wants to repurpose coal power plants into deep geothermal wells by using high-frequency microwaves to melt rock. Quaise Energy, an MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI) spinout developing ...
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Future Energy Systems Center project updates - Critical minerals

Metals recovery optimization and scenario modeling at facility-scale for critical metals circularity in the U.S. June 1, 2025 – May 31, 2027 Funding source Future Energy Systems Center 8 ...
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Chandrakasan appointed to Vannevar Bush Professorship

Anantha P. Chandrakasan has been appointed to the Vannevar Bush Professorship, effective Nov. 1, Dean of Engineering Ian A. Waitz has announced. The Vannevar Bush Professorship is an Institute-wide ...
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Getting a charge out of water droplets

The experimental chamber setup is seen from the front, with high speed camera looking into the chamber from the left. Last year, MIT researchers discovered that when water droplets spontaneously jump ...
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Future Energy Systems Center

MITEI's Future Energy Systems Center is an industry research consortium delivering actionable insights for navigating the energy transition based on multi-sectoral analyses of emerging technologies, ...
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The Future of Fuels: Pathways to Sustainable Transportation

The Future of Fuels: Pathways to Sustainable Transportation is a multi-year, interdisciplinary MITEI-led study analyzing promising pathways to decarbonize hard-to-abate transportation sectors such as ...
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Seizing solar’s bright future

Optigon co-founders (left to right) Brandon Motes, Dane deQuilettes, and Anthony Troupe standing with a benchtop version of the measurement tool they believe will help accelerate the pace of solar ...
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Hydrogen: The clean-burning fuel of the future—if we can find a cheap and clean way to ship it

The Hydrogen Carrier Analysis Tool (HyCAT), developed by a MITEI-led team, helps users determine the costs and carbon emissions incurred when transporting and delivering hydrogen fuel. Many experts ...
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The multi-faceted challenge of powering AI

Providing electricity to power-hungry data centers is stressing grids, raising prices for consumers, and slowing the transition to clean energy. Artificial intelligence (AI) has become vital in ...
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Technologies to remove carbon dioxide from the air: A reality check

Climeworks’ direct air capture and storage plant, Orca, in Hellisheidi, Iceland. Pictured are two of the four absorber units. Each absorber unit can remove about 1,000 tons of carbon dioxide per year.
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Funding the fusion revolution

Billions of dollars are pouring into fusion energy, reflecting increased hopes that it could become a commercially viable source of clean power in the near future. Only several years ago, few could ...
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How the war in the Middle East is impacting global energy systems

Fatih Birol, executive director of the International Energy Agency, discussed the potential short- and long-term impacts of the current disruptions to the world's energy markets. April 30, 2026 MITEI ...