MIT Energy Short Course

MIT Energy Short Course

14 Videos · Jun 14, 2006

About

(MITEI), established in September 2006, is an Institute-wide initiative designed to help transform the global energy system to meet the needs of the future and to help build a bridge to that future by improving today's energy systems.

MIT President Susan Hockfield first announced an MIT energy initiative at her inauguration in May 2005. She said, "[It is] our institutional responsibility to address the challenges of energy and the environment....Tackling the problems that energy and the environment present will require contributions from all our departments and schools...bringing scientists, engineers and social scientists together to envision the best energy policies for the future."

She subsequently established an Energy Research Council (ERC) of 16 faculty members from all five schools, charged with exploring how MIT could best tackle the world’s energy crisis. After gathering extensive input from MIT faculty, students, staff, and alumni as well as key industrial leaders, the ERC prepared a report and submitted it to Hockfield in May 2006.

Drawing on the recommendations in that report, Hockfield launched MITEI the following fall, thrusting MIT into a new era of highly focused energy-related activity. The MITEI program now includes research, education, campus energy management and outreach activities that cover all areas of energy supply and demand, security and environmental impact.

Videos

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01:27:47

Improving Today's Energy Systems

Mujid S. Kazimi,

William H. Green Jr.,

Ahmed F. Ghoniem,

Paul L. Joskow,

Robert D. van der Hilst,

Stephen Ansolabehere

Apr 19, 2013

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3719 views

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01:29:53

Growing Pains - Transitioning to a Sustainable Energy Economy

John B. Heywood,

Stephen Ansolabehere

Apr 19, 2013

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2878 views

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01:35:06

The Challenge: Meeting Global Energy Demands Sustainably

Kerry Emanuel,

Ernest J. Moniz

Apr 19, 2013

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3002 views

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01:32:49

The Role of New Technologies in a Sustainable Energy Economy

Angela Belcher,

Daniel Nocera

Apr 19, 2013

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2801 views

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01:01:57

Climate and Energy: Uncertainties in Forecasts and the Problems of Scale

Ronald G. Prinn

Apr 19, 2013

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2758 views

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01:29:07

Science and Technology for a Clean Energy Future

Gregory Stephanopoulos,

Gang Chen,

Emanuel M. Sachs,

Jeffrey P. Freidberg,

Yang Shao-Horn,

Yet-Ming Chiang,

Rafael Reif

Apr 19, 2013

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4378 views

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53:52

Opening Remarks Overview of the Energy Research Report

Susan Hockfield,

Ernest J. Moniz

Apr 19, 2013

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2848 views

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01:07:01

Economics: Regulation and Deregulation of Energy Sectors

Paul L. Joskow

Apr 19, 2013

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2711 views

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01:16:43

The Role of Biomass in America's Energy Future

Lee Rybeck Lynd

Apr 19, 2013

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2634 views

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57:47

The Hydrogen Initiative: The Hydrogen Storage Challenge

Mildred Dresselhaus

Apr 19, 2013

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2904 views

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59:20

Our Energy Future: Why American Science and Engineering Must Lead the Way

Samuel W. Bodman

Apr 19, 2013

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2372 views

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01:36:48

Winning the Oil Endgame

Amory B. Lovins

Apr 19, 2013

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2959 views

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01:59:53

Energy for a Rapidly Evolving World

Leon R. Glicksman,

Henry D. Jacoby,

Karen R. Polenske,

John B. Heywood,

Ronald G. Prinn,

Amy Smith

Apr 19, 2013

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2997 views

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01:19:49

Energy for the Coming Decades: Trends and Technologies

Steven E. Koonin

Apr 19, 2013

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2721 views