Sunday, August 27, 2006

MIT Energy's Manhattan Project

Solar cells made from spinach. Algae-based biofuel fattened on greenhouse gas. Plasma-powered turbo engines. These are just some of the technologies being developed by a Manhattan Project-style research effort for new energy technologies at MIT....

Scientists at MIT are undertaking a big, ambitious, university-wide program to develop innovative energy tech under the auspices of the school's Energy Research Council.

"The urgent challenge of our time (is) clean, affordable energy to power the world," said MIT President Susan Hockfield.

Inaugurated last year, the project is likened by Hockfield to MIT's contribution to radar -- a key technology that helped win World War II.

"As the example of radar suggests, when MIT arrays its capabilities against an important problem ... we can make an important contribution," said Hockfield in an e-mail...

Some of the projects: Spinach solar power, Silicon superstrings, Laptop powered Hybrids, Tubular battery tech, Optimised air-conditioners, Hybrid without the hybrid, Generating Car's Electricity Photoelectrically, Coal-fired biofuels...

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