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Around 11 billion tons of goods, or about 1.5 tons per person worldwide, are transported by sea each year, representing about 90 percent of global trade by volume. Internationally, the merchant shipping fleet numbers around 110,000 vessels. These ships, and the ports that service them, are significant contributors to the local and global economy — and they’re significant contributors to greenhouse gas emissions.A new consortium, formalized in a signing ceremony at MIT last week, aims to address climate-harming emissions in the maritime shipping industry, while supporting efforts for environmentally friendly operation in compliance with the decarbonization goals set by the…

Recent breakthroughs at U.S. fusion labs, along with new public-private partnerships, are bringing us closer than ever to realizing fusion energy’s limitless potential. With the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) new Office of Fusion, the Genesis Mission executive order, Fusion Science and Technology Roadmap, and public and private investment, fusion is officially on the national agenda. America is standing on the cusp of a trillion-dollar future. However, the U.S. has a major gap to fill in fusion research and development (R&D), and workforce development. Public investment lags behind rival nations, slowing progress toward commercialization and leaving a shortage of skilled…

“Aerial view Denver, Colorado” by Carol M Highsmith/ CC0 1.0 On April 22, 2024, the Colorado Apartment Association, Apartment Association of Metro Denver, Colorado and Lodging Association, Inc., and NAIOP Colorado Chapter filed a complaint in federal district court against the State of Colorado and City of Denver challenging building performance standard regulations designed to decrease energy use and consequent GHG emissions in new and existing covered buildings (Colorado Apartment Association, et. all v. Ryan, et. all, Case No. 1:24-cv-01093 (Filed 4/22/24). This litigation follows the same legal challenge used against the City of Berkeley that overturned the City of…

U.S. News and World Report has again placed MIT’s graduate program in engineering at the top of its annual rankings, released today. The Institute has held the No. 1 spot since 1990, when the magazine first ranked such programs.The MIT Sloan School of Management also placed highly, in rankings announced April 8. It occupies the No. 5 spot for the best graduate business programs.Among individual engineering disciplines, MIT placed first in six areas: aerospace/aeronautical/astronautical engineering, chemical engineering, computer engineering (tied with the University of California at Berkeley), electrical/electronic/communications engineering (tied with Stanford University and Berkeley), materials engineering, and mechanical engineering. It…

In 1945, nuclear bombs were used for the first and only time in history, taking the lives of thousands of people in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan. Eighty years later, we are in the face of an unfolding genocide. The world is dealing with multiple crises, all of them urgent, and all of them requiring great courage from all of us. To achieve a future that is just and equitable for people and the planet, we need to work together: individuals, communities, and civil society organisations must build our collective power to ensure a better future for all. As part of…

Statehouse Happenings This Week: Our final pre-WEALTH event will be Wed/Thur (3/22 – 3/23). We’ll be talking with Rabbi Moti Rieber and others on the HOT topic of the session: WATER! The legislature has one more week of committee hearings and there’s a few things we’re closely monitoring this final week of committees! SB 49 is the wind lighting mitigation bill and it will be worked in the House Utilities committee on Tuesday morning. Please urge House Utilities members to pass the bill out with no additional amendments.  In the Senate, the Utilities committee will hear SB 278, a bill championed by…

MIT faculty and researchers receive many external awards throughout the year. The MIT School of Engineering periodically highlights the honors, prizes, and medals won by community members working in academic departments, labs, and centers. Winter 2025 honorees include the following:Faez Ahmed, the American Bureau of Shipping Career Development Professor in Naval Engineering and Utilization and an assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering (MechE), received a 2024 National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award. The CAREER program is one of NSF’s most prestigious awards that supports early-career faculty who display outstanding research, excellent education, and the integration of education and research. Martin Zdenek…

Duke Energy Submits Early Site Permit at Coal Plant Site Wyoming Awards $100 Million for BWXT TRISO Fuel Plant Centrus Launches Commercial LEU Enrichment Activities Urenco USA Produces First LEU+ Fuel Bulgaria And Poland Companies Set Joint Venture for BWRX-300 SMR Turkey Lands $9 billion in Finance from Rosatom for Akkuyu Japan Plans To Restart Unit 6 At Kashiwazaki Kariwa Nuclear Station Next Month China Begins Work on Two More Nuclear Power Plants TAE, UKAEA Create Joint Venture for Fusion Energy Duke Energy Submits Early Site Permit at Coal Plant Site The company’s application includes six potential reactor technologies, including…

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According to the American Road and Transportation Builders Association, one in three bridges needs repair or replacement, amounting to more than 200,000 bridges across the country. A key culprit of America’s aging infrastructure is rebar that has accumulated rust, which cracks the concrete around it, making bridges more likely to collapse.Now Allium Engineering, founded by two MIT PhDs, is tripling the lifetime of bridges and other structures with a new technology that uses a stainless steel cladding to make rebar resilient to corrosion. By eliminating corrosion, infrastructure lasts much longer, fewer repairs are required, and carbon emissions are reduced. The company’s technology…