Similarly, the Green Button team at the U.S. Department of Energy and the National Institute of Standards and Technology is working collaboratively with industry to enable millions of residential and commercial energy customers to securely download and share their own energy usage data in a standardized human-readable and machine-readable format directly from their utilities.
One of the industry's most enduring optimists, Lynch spent 20 years working on energy policy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Center for International Studies, his alma mater.
But last week the U.S. Chamber of Commerce held a panel discussion on cybersecurity that featured Donald Paul, director of the Univ. of Southern California Energy Institute and the former chief technology officer at Chevron.
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The effort is called MyEnergi Lifestyle, and according to a model cooked up by the Georgia Institute of Technology, its energy-saving tricks could reduce the energy costs of an average single family home by as much as 60-percent.
The battery, developed by Zhong Lin Wang and colleagues at the Georgia Institute of Technology, converts the kinetic energy from motion into chemical energy, which can then be used to power any device.
The hut may well become a benchmark for future Alpine huts, with its designer, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, continuing to research its energy and resource use.
The AMS project began in 1994, when Professor Samuel Ting, a Nobel laureate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was considering a new high-energy physics experiment.
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Moniz has served on the faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology since 1973, with a research focus on energy technology and policy.
The brain trusts at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard and more than a dozen other universities have become pioneers of renewable energy and environmental remediation.
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