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MIT teams with United Arab Emirates on Renewable Energy Initiative

Posted in Energy Solutions by Howard Deutsch on the June 12, 2008

The US Government is caught sleeping

In February, 2007 the United Arab Emirates contracted with MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) to support their renewable energy initiative. Wouldn’t it be great to see MIT and 50 – 75 other leading US research universities working on major energy research and development projects right here in the US, in collaboration with US Government National Laboratories and corporations.

Might this research lead to opportunities for exporting alternative energy generating equipment?

United Arab Emirates teams with MIT to go renewable  

Renewable Energy World article 

Energy is the single most important challenge facing humanity today.
—Nobel Laureate Rick Smalley, April 2004, Testimony to U.S. Senate

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