MIT energy experts explore life ‘beyond carbon’

If all nations burned gasoline for transportation at the same rate as the United States, world gasoline consumption would rise nearly ten-fold, with a corresponding hike in the concentration of greenhouse gases.
That’s just one reason why it is imperative that nations work to create a more sustainable transportation system, says John Heywood, director of MIT’s Sloan Automotive Lab and the Sun Jae Professor of Mechanical Engineering.

“As the countries in the developing world rapidly motorize, the increasing global demand for fuel will pose one of the biggest challenges to controlling the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere,” Heywood writes in “Fueling Our Transportation Future,” an article he wrote for the September issue of Scientific American.

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