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1. Solar Power Breakthrough Stores Energy for Later Use | CommonDreams.org

   Common Dreams (Aug 31 2008) Solar , Hybrid cars , Patents , Sloan , Venture Capital , 1 , 2 , Events , In the news , Energy Efficiency Explore Article

   "This is the nirvana of what we've been talking about for years," said MIT's Daniel Nocera, senior author of a paper describing the simple, inexpensive, and efficient process for storing solar energy in the July 31 issue of the journal "Science."
   

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2. Green Energy: Kennedys photovoltaic curtains

   Luminapolis – The Luminale (Aug 24 2008) Solar , Entrepreneurship , Patents , Sloan , Venture Capital , 1 , 2 , Events , In the news , Energy Efficiency Explore Article

   Green Energy: Kennedy’s Photovoltaic Curtains Boston. MIT news reports: Sheila Kennedy, an expert in the integration of solar cell technology in architecture who is now at MIT, creates designs for flexible photovoltaic materials that may change the way buildings receive and distribute energy. These new materials, known as solar textiles, work like the now-familiar photovoltaic cells in solar panels. Made of semiconductor materials, they absorb sunlight and convert it into ...
   

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3. an Inconvenient Energy Reality

   redorbit.com (May 4 2008) Solar , Hybrid cars , Patents , Sloan , Venture Capital , 1 , 2 , Events , In the news , Energy Efficiency Explore Article

   Comment "This is an article from a site called "redOrbit," which looks really interesting. "The redOrbit Knowledge Network is an online ..." - EdCarlevale

   However, that does not mean that the use of hydropower is over, for there are other forms of this energy with great potential. Research is currently being ...
   

   1 Comment Mentions:   Congress   Electric Power Research Institute   Idaho National Laboratory

4. IEA views about Biofuels

   euro-petrole.com (May 2 2008) Hybrid cars , Sloan , Venture Capital , 1 , 2 , In the news Explore Article

   The recent shortage in grain stocks and surge in food prices have triggered questions about the sustainable production of biofuels. ...
   

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5. What's the most overhyped tech trend right now?

   Wired News (May 2 2008) Hybrid cars , Sloan , In the news Explore Article

   "The all-in-one device - phone, portable game console, PDA, music and video player. It's a fad because there isn't a simple, singular user interface to control such a wide array of functions. Instead, we'll see a rise in networked modules - devices ...
   

   Comment on Article Mentions:   New York Times   Harvard Medical School   Motorola

6. MIT says new mobile chip design will boost energy efficiency by 10x

   Computerworld (May 2 2008) Entrepreneurship , Patents , Sloan , Venture Capital , Events , In the news , Energy Efficiency Explore Article

   California court posting SSNs and other personal data, privacy advocates charge Travel group warns: Corporate data at risk from laptop searches at border AT&T; treats iPhone owners to free Wi-Fi IBM data center offerings . . . a la iTunes 6 factors ...
   

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1. Op-Ed Columnist - Georgia on My Mind - Op-Ed - NYTimes.com

   The New York Times (Sep 6 2008) Sloan , Venture Capital , In the news Explore Article

   As Chuck Vest, the former president of M.I.T., said to me: “Both candidates have spoken a lot about ‘change,’ but in most areas of need, innovation is the only mechanism that can actually change things in substantive ways. Innovation is ...
   

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2. ‘Nanoprinting’ is hot solar item

   bizjournals (Aug 25 2008) Solar , Patents , Sloan , Venture Capital , Energy Efficiency Explore Article

   The solar industry is competing in a Space Age-like rush to develop the next generation of solar panels. Thanks to a key summer finance deal and the achievement of critical technology milestones, the thinnest and perhaps most cost-effective new technology ...
   

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3. Will lasers brighten nuclear’s future?

   Home (Aug 27 2008) Patents , Sloan , Venture Capital , 1 , 2 , In the news , Energy Efficiency Explore Article

   In that building, secret uranium-enrichment technology licensed by GE-Hitachi Nuclear Energy is nearing a pilot test. If successful, the new technology will ...
   

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4. Google’s Hot Rocks

   Clean Energy Digest (Aug 25 2008) Patents , Sloan , Venture Capital , 1 , 2 , 1 , 2 , In the news , Energy Efficiency Explore Article

   By Rob Safuto on Aug 25, 2008 in Investments Last week Google.org announced their latest round of clean energy investments which are geared towards the development of unconventional geothermal technology. A total of about 11 million dollars will be invested ...
   

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5. And Then There Was One - NYT's Tom Friedman on Energy

   The New York Times (Sep 3 2008) Patents , Sloan , Venture Capital , 1 , 2 , In the news , Energy Efficiency View all 3 articles » Explore Article

   As we emerge from Labor Day, college students are gathering back on campuses not only to start the fall semester, but also, in some cases, to vote for the first time in a presidential election. There is no bigger issue ...
   

   McCain's VP, what do you think? - Napa Valley Register  
   Energy policies fuel economist's comments - web.mit.edu  
   

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6. The End Of Aviation

   After Armageddon (Aug 24 2008) Patents , Sloan , Venture Capital , 1 , 2 , In the news Explore Article

   o + ► 08/17 - 08/24 (6) o The Tempo Of Change o Will Americans ever bicycle like the rest of the w... o The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil... o Everything Is Not Peachy o Our ...
   

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7. Bacterial Energy Research Can Help Us Create Renewable Energy

   Solar Power Knowledge Project (Aug 27 2008) Patents , Sloan , Venture Capital , 1 , 2 , Events , In the news , Energy Efficiency View all 12 articles » Explore Article

   August 27, 2008 in energy resources, future energy, plant energy, project energy, renewable resources, renewable sources | Tags: cyanobacteria, photosynthesis, photosynthesis hack, photosynthetic energy | by asteres Efficient conversion of the sun’s energy into human usage will be crucial to ...
   

   'Major Discovery' Primed To Unleash Solar Revolution: Scientists ... - Clippings  
   Multi Currency Solar Breakthrough - Gary A. Scott, Gary Scott  
   

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8. Call of the wild

   web.mit.edu (Aug 22 2008) Patents , Sloan , Venture Capital , In the news Explore Article

   What started out as an MIT project aimed at monitoring owls in their natural environment has grown into an international collaboration on how to use widespread networks of citizen-scientists to gain new insights into a wide variety of species.
   

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9. Examining Texas

   Energy Central (Aug 27 2008) Patents , Sloan , Venture Capital , 1 , 2 , In the news Explore Article

   The Brattle Group found that average electricity rates have increased 31 percent in both restructured and non-restructured states over the last decade. ...
   

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10. Steven R. Lerman ’72 is the Dean for Graduate Education.

    The Tech (Aug 25 2008) Entrepreneurship , Patents , Sloan , Venture Capital , In the news Explore Article

    Some amount of my work is helping students resolve individual problems: problems with funding, problems with their research supervisors, et cetera. ...
    

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11. Betting on a hot market for syngas

    Earth Savvy (Aug 28 2008) Hybrid cars , Patents , Sloan , Venture Capital , 1 , 2 , In the news , Energy Efficiency View all 2 articles » Explore Article

    NEW BEDFORD - Take a rusting, hulking pile of scrap metal, add a few tons of construction debris, and what do you get? In the case of Ze-gen Inc., a new source of energy. Ze-gen, founded four years ago, is ...
    

    Betting on a hot market for syngas - Boston.com  
    

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12. The Alliance for Global Sustainability (ags)

    Renewable Energy (Aug 29 2008) Patents , Sloan , Venture Capital , 1 , 2 , In the news , Energy Efficiency Explore Article

    The Alliance for Global Sustainability (AGS) 2008-08-29 by renewenergy The Alliance for Global Sustainability (AGS) is a unique, international partnership between four of the world’s leading science and technology universities: * Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich (ETHsustainability) * Massachusetts ...
    

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13. ‘Major discovery’ from MIT primed to unleash solar revolution (vid ...

    Dandelion Salad (Aug 18 2008) Entrepreneurship , Patents , Sloan , Venture Capital , Events , In the news Explore Article

    Dandelion Salad Anne Trafton, News Office http://web.mit.edu July 31, 2008 h/t: dave Fossil fuels for fossil thoughts By Rand Clifford See No Hemp, Hear No Hemp, Speak No Hemp By Rand Clifford
    

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14. Aviation Week to Present Air Traffic Control Demand Management Forum ...

    Latest Press Releases (Aug 28 2008) Sloan , In the news Explore Article

    NEW YORK, Jan. 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- AVIATION WEEK, the largest multimedia information and services provider to the global aviation, aerospace and defense industries, today announced that it will present its 2008 ATC (Air Traffic Control ...
    

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15. Nuclear power at a safe distance

    firm & correct with Martin V. (Aug 23 2008) Solar , Patents , Sloan , Venture Capital , 1 , 2 , Events , In the news , Energy Efficiency Explore Article

    What’s the alternative? It’s not oil, natural gas, ‘clean’ coal, or nuclear. Well I guess it is nuclear, of a sort. That gigantic nuclear reactor we call the sun. It’s at a safe distance too! Huzzah! And it deals with ...
    

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1. And Then There Was One - NYT's Tom Friedman on Energy

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   As we emerge from Labor Day, college students are gathering back on campuses not only to start the fall semester, but also, in some cases, to vote for the first time in a presidential election. There is no bigger issue on campuses these days than environment/energy.
   

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2. Op-Ed Columnist - Georgia on My Mind - Op-Ed - NYTimes.com

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   As Chuck Vest, the former president of M.I.T., said to me: “Both candidates have spoken a lot about ‘change,’ but in most areas of need, innovation is the only mechanism that can actually change things in substantive ways. Innovation is where creative thinking and practical know-how meet to do new things in new ways, and old things in new ways.
   

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