MIT Energy Conference

2010 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Energy Conference

by Rich Hessler Solar on Jun 4, 2010

It is comforting to know that there are minds at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology thinking up ways to commercialize many new renewable energy technological developments for the solar, hydrogen, and energy storage.
The 2010 MIT Energy Conference was an open house to all of the energy research projects being conducted by both faculty and students of the institute. The main goal of the research according to MIT's Energy Initiative director, Ernest Moniz, is to work with the renewable energy and power industries to commercialize groundbreaking technologies. He noted that their energy technology ideas cannot be commercialized in a garage like you can with Internet Technology (IT).
Exactly 20% of MIT's faculty is involved in some form of energy research. Energy is a big business at MIT. The 2010 MIT Energy Conference was not just some science fair. MIT has been very involved in the energy sector having already formed companies in the industry. The most notable of...Read More >>