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Responsive design meets responsibility for the planet's future
MIT senior Sylas Horowitz is tackling engineering projects with a focus on challenges related to clean energy, climate justice, and sustainable development. Their personal mission is to create systems and technology that "serve the well-being and longevity of communities and the ecosystems we exist within."
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24/05/2023
8:44
Flow batteries for grid-scale energy storage
A modeling framework by MIT researchers can help speed the development of flow batteries for large-scale, long-duration electricity storage on the future grid.
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10/05/2023
15:58
An education in climate change
Climate Action Through Education is a new multidisciplinary climate change curriculum for high schools that aims to engage and mobilize teachers and students in a range of disciplines—from science to language arts to math.
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https://energy.mit.edu/news/new-multidisciplinary-climate-change-curriculum-for-high-schools-aims-to-engage-and-mobilize-teachers-and-students
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26/04/2023
9:27
Using combustion to make lithium-ion batteries
Combustion experts at MIT have designed a system that uses flames to produce materials critical to lithium-ion batteries. Their combustion-based method promises to be simpler, much quicker, and far less energy-intensive than the conventional method now used to manufacture cathode materials.
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https://energy.mit.edu/news/using-combustion-to-make-lithium-ion-batteries
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12/04/2023
15:05
Shrinky Dinks, nail polish, and smelly bacteria
With the help of a children’s toy called Shrinky Dinks, carbon-based materials, nail polish, and a certain smelly bacterium, high school students spent the summer in an MIT lab creating electrodes for low-cost microbial fuel cells.
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https://energy.mit.edu/news/shrinky-dinks-nail-polish-and-smelly-bacteria
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