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MIT Joint Program Co-Director John Reilly highlights constraints on batteries in an intermittent renewable-dominated power sector (pv magazine) (Additional coverage: pv magazine)
Recognizing their critical role in the future grid, MIT still sees limits to batteries in an intermittent renewable-dominated power sector. In this op-ed, John Reilly, co-director of the MIT Joint...
![MIT biological engineers have devised a programming language that can be used to give new functions to E. coli bacteria. Image: Janet Iwasa MIT-Program-Bacteria-press_WEB.jpg](https://globalchange.mit.edu/sites/default/files/styles/490x340_manual/public/news/MIT-Program-Bacteria-press_WEB.jpg?itok=rANvo-yx)
On December 3 and 4, Boston University convened a workshop exploring how synthetic biology—the engineering of genetic “circuits” in living cells and organisms to enable them to perform specified tasks—can help address climate change. Participants, who included thought leaders in science,...
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Joint Program Research Scientist Jennifer Morris explains findings from Mobility of the Future report (InsideEPA)
Experts with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) say efforts to decarbonize vehicles and reduce mobile source greenhouse gas emissions will depend on strengthening federal corporate average fuel economy (CAFE) standards for gasoline-fueled vehicles and creating a low-carbon...
![The contribution of electric vehicles to lowering carbon emissions was discussed by MIT professors David Keith and Christopher Knittel, EV industry consultant Chelsea Sexton, and moderator Jessika Trancik. Image: Jake Belcher MIT-Decarbonizing-Electricity-05-PRESS_WEB.jpg](https://globalchange.mit.edu/sites/default/files/styles/490x340_manual/public/in-the-news/MIT-Decarbonizing-Electricity-05-PRESS_WEB.jpg?itok=rGhddtsi)
MIT symposium looks at the role of advances in storage, solar, nuclear, EVs and more in cutting greenhouse gas emissions
David L. Chandler | MIT News Office December 9, 2019
The generation of electricity is a huge contributor to the world’s emissions of climate-altering greenhouse gases, producing some 25 percent globally. That’s because more than two-thirds of the world’s electricity is still being...
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Keeping nuclear power vital may be the best way to reach aggressive carbon reduction targets while avoiding a steep carbon price (Power Engineering)
Rod Walton12.5.19
Keeping nuclear power vital may be the best way to reach aggressive carbon reduction goals while avoiding a steep added price, such as a tax, on emissions in the U.S..
![Associate Professor Noelle Eckley Selin (left) and former graduate student Emil Dimanchev SM ’18 used a new method to analyze the impacts of current and proposed state-level renewable energy and carbon pricing policies. Their study yielded some unexpected outcomes on the health benefits of the policies they examined. Credit: Stuart Darsch noelle-selin-emil-dimanchev_WEB.jpg](https://globalchange.mit.edu/sites/default/files/styles/490x340_manual/public/in-the-news/noelle-selin-emil-dimanchev_WEB.jpg?itok=szf2Avbl)
State-level adoption saves money and lives (Energy Futures)
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![Assistant Professor Valerie Karplus and her collaborators have demonstrated that measurements of air pollutants taken by NASA satellites are often a good indicator of emissions on the ground. Their approach provides regulators with a low-cost tool to ensure that industrial firms are complying with emissions standards. Credit: Kelley Travers, MITEI valerie-karplus-tracking-emissions-in-china_WEB.jpg](https://globalchange.mit.edu/sites/default/files/styles/490x340_manual/public/in-the-news/valerie-karplus-tracking-emissions-in-china_WEB.jpg?itok=RZ9C4fqc)
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To meet the long-term goals of the Paris Agreement on climate change—keeping global warming well below 2°C and ideally capping it at 1.5°C—humanity will ultimately need to achieve net zero emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) into the atmosphere. To date emissions reduction efforts have largely...
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Deep decarbonization requires nuclear, says Joint Program Co-Director John Reilly (Utility Dive)
![Photo: Over 10,000 tracking heliostats focus solar energy at the receiver on the 640 foot power tower at the Crescent Dunes Solar Thermal Facility, which provides more than 500,000 megawatt hours of electricity per year, available day or night through molten salt storage. (Source: Flickr/National Renewable Energy Lab) Energy Workshop 2019.jpg](https://globalchange.mit.edu/sites/default/files/styles/490x340_manual/public/news/Energy%20Workshop%202019.jpg?itok=-4Tye4d5)
To meet the world’s growing demand for energy amid efforts to stabilize the global climate will require the deployment of low‑carbon energy sources on a massive scale. But mobilizing the financial resources, technological advances, public opinion and political resolve needed to move toward net...