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MIT students win $75K EPA grant for alternative energy project
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MIT graduate students have won up to $75,000 from the Environmental Protection Agency to develop an alternative energy system.
Under the grant, the students will develop a system that creates power using solar heat and methane gas. Under the project, two modules were designed and tested at MIT and deployed at a school and in a village in the African nation of Lesotho with support from the World Bank. The project is being worked on by students in the lab of MIT professor Harold Hemond, in the school’s department of civil and environmental engineering.
The funding comes from the EPA’s People, Prosperity and the Planet (P3) program, which focuses on sustainable energy projects. The P3 award competition is intended to encourage college students to apply technology to environmental challenges. P3 designs must be viable as businesses, which is why each winner receives up to $75,000 in funding to commercialize their designs.
Last November, the MIT project won $10,000 from an earlier stage of the P3 program.
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