Energy Reads

Energy Reads

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Energy Reads episodes

  • Lessons from energy leaders

    MITEI's IAP course "Leading the Energy Transition" connects students with practitioners and experts to inspire new leadership in the clean energy transition.

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    10 min
  • Bridging careers in aerospace manufacturing and fusion energy with a focus on intentional inclusion

    MIT alum Joy Dunn '08 spent a decade working in aerospace manufacturing at SpaceX before joining Commonwealth Fusion Systems, where she plays a key role in developing a commercially viable fusion power plant. 

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    9 min
  • Making hydrogen power a reality

    Hydrogen has long been seen as potentially game-changing in the quest for a clean energy future. At MITEI's 2022 Spring Symposium, four industry experts laid out their efforts to produce it at scale.

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    10 min
  • Building consensus on concessions

    There's only one financially solvent utility company in Africa, and it operates under a government agreement called a concession. Learn why utility concessions can be a promising tool to help end energy poverty in developing countries around the world.

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    8 min
  • Using nature’s structures in wooden buildings

    Utilizing digital and computational methods, MIT researchers have developed an approach that enables architects to use discarded tree forks as load-bearing joints in their structures.

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    14 min
  • Investors awake to the risks of climate change

    At the MIT Energy Initiative's Fall Colloquium, Poppy Allonby, a senior financial executive and the former managing director of BlackRock, laid out the current state of sustainability thinking among the investor class.

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    8 min
  • Francesco Benedetti: Building communities, founding a startup with people in mind

    Inspired by the MIT community and assisted by his collaborators, postdoc Francesco Benedetti launched a startup to provide innovative technology for energy-efficient, high-performance chemical separations—and won the MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition.

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    10 min
  • Making the case for hydrogen in a zero-carbon economy

    In a study analyzing California’s power system, MITEI researchers Emre Gençer and Drake D. Hernandez SM ’21 show that hydrogen-generated electricity is a cost-competitive alternative to fossil-fuel-based peaker plants or lithium-ion battery arrays for backing up solar and wind.

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    9 min
  • Via Separations: MITEI spin-off takes aim at industrial decarbonization

    Many industries use energy-intensive methods to separate liquids, often because a suitable filtration system is hard to come by. Startup Via Separations has developed a robust membrane that can cut energy use in industrial separations by 90%.

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    10 min

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