Heads Explode As Virtual Power Plants Meet Self-Defending Grids
The virtual power plant movement has primed the pump for advanced grid management systems designed to prevent power disruptions.
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Harvard Spinoff Lobs Solid State Battery Bomb At Fossil Fuels
Expectations are high for a new solid state battery from Adden Energy, based on technology developed at Harvard University.
US Navy Prowls For E-Fuels From The Seven Seas
The US Navy is eyeing e-fuels made from green hydrogen and captured carbon dioxide to sustain seagoing and land-based operations.
MIT Shares How Machine Learning Models Can Make Sense Of Nonsense & How This Could…
Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have stumbled upon an interesting problem with machine learning and image classification. This problem, if not solved, could be harmless or could be deadly, depending on what the system is being used for. Simply put, a model could look at an image and … [continued]
Pathfinder Satellite Paves Way for Constellation of Tropical-Storm Observers
By Kylie Foy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Lincoln Laboratory The 2020 Atlantic hurricane season was one of the most brutal on record, producing an unprecedented 30 named storms. What’s more, a record-tying 10 of those storms were characterized as rapidly intensifying — some throttling up by 100 miles per hour … [continued]
New York Times: Electric Cars Are Cheaper & Cleaner
For two decades now, the mainstream press has been feeding peoples’ natural skepticism about new technology, dismissing electric vehicles as a quaint fad that will never “catch on.”
FuelFix Not Fooled By New Fracking Study … Were You?
A new fracking study is being pitched as great news for the oil and gas industry, but the oil and gas industry has been oddly quiet about the news.
116 Day MIT Sit-in Ends In Mediocre Deal For Climate Action
After 116 days, the Fossil Free MIT sit-in has ended with the announcement of an agreement for a deal on climate action. The longest ever sit-in for fossil fuel divestment concluded this earlier this month when an agreement was reached between student activists from Fossil Free MIT and MIT’s Vice … [continued]
New Study Predicts World Unlikely To Become Less Reliant On Fossil Fuels
A new study has concluded that fossil fuels consumption is likely to grow unless an adequate price is placed on carbon dioxide emissions. The new study, Will We Ever Stop Using Fossil Fuels, published in the Journal of Economic Perspectives, finds that fossil fuel consumption is likely to continue to increase … [continued]
New Energy-Saving Incandescent Light Bulb
Thomas Edison’s incandescent light bulb is not the most energy efficient of light bulbs, but new research may manage to alter that. For years now we have been urged by governments and energy efficiency proponents to change to LED bulbs, moving away from the old-fashioned incandescent light bulbs which have … [continued]
