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MIT Gives the Pivotal Energy Moment a Full Conference Schedule
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The MIT Energy Initiative's annual research conference considered the deployment of current technologies and the discovery of future breakthroughs, with an agenda spanning nuclear energy and qubits. The gathering put practical energy development alongside research into the building blocks of quantum computing. That range reflects two very different clocks. A technology ready for deployment faces questions about cost, infrastructure and implementation. A research breakthrough may first need years of work before anyone can assess its wider use. Both can appear on the same conference program, even if they cannot share the same timeline. Universities have good reason to gather researchers and industry around both kinds of work. The comic challenge is fitting them under one suitably urgent title. A pivotal moment is an excellent conference theme: it can accommodate a power plant, a qubit and a panel that runs ten minutes over. The actual projects still have to leave the auditorium and meet their own deadlines.
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