Energy

Various automotive products and battery types from brands like Halfords and Panasonic displayed on a light blue background.
Clean Energy
Why batteries come in so many sizes and shapes
Despite all working the same way, batteries are made in different sizes and shapes for reasons of cost and how easy they are to make.
Wesley Chang
A fusion energy locomotive emits a large plume of smoke as it travels through a rugged, mountainous landscape.
Clean Energy
Even as the fusion era dawns, we’re still in the Steam Age
Why do we use steam rather than other gases? Steam has lasted this long because we have an abundance of water, covering 71% of Earth’s surface.
Andreas Helwig
a photo of a Terraformer
Clean Energy
This startup is making natural gas from sunlight, water, and air
Terraform Industries is using sunlight, water, and air to create synthetic natural gas — and keep methane out of the atmosphere.
Kristin Houser
An artist's rendering of a Natrium nuclear power plant
Clean Energy
How TerraPower is leading the nuclear renaissance
Kristin Houser
A stack of wood blocks made by Graphyte.
Climate Crisis
How these wooden blocks could stop climate change
Kristin Houser
A 3d model of a house and a machine.
Clean Energy
Engineers develop an efficient process to make fuel from carbon dioxide
David L. Chandler | MIT News
a rendering of the STRATOS direct air capture system
Climate Crisis
BlackRock invests $550M in world’s largest direct air capture plant
Kristin Houser
a field filled with large mirrors used for concentrated solar power
Clean Energy
Aussie scientists hit milestone in concentrated solar power
Kristin Houser
A diagram showing the different stages of a cold storage system.
Clean Energy
MIT design would harness 40 percent of the sun’s heat to produce clean hydrogen fuel
Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office
An image of a JT-60SA machine, a large machine in a factory that is utilized for nuclear fusion research.
Clean Energy
Japan sets new nuclear fusion record
Kristin Houser
a building under construction
Construction
The faster, cheaper, no-brainer way to replace dirty construction
Mike Wehner
A large container for renewable energy storage with a crane attached to it.
Batteries
California utility will try to store renewable energy in iron-flow batteries
Kristin Houser
a stack of three blocks made from low-carbon cement on a blue background
Construction
New low-carbon cement is stronger than the regular stuff
Kristin Houser