This company wants to use carbon dioxide to store renewable power on the grid

MIT Technology Review · Casey Crownhart · last updated May 4, 2022 – 5:43 PM

In the quest to find a better way to store power for the grid, an Italian startup is turning to an unlikely source: carbon dioxide. The company, called Energy Dome, has built a test facility to put the greenhouse gas to work in energy storage.

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