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Google’s investing in a CO2 battery.

It’s part of the company’s new push to support the development of technologies that can store renewable energy for longer periods of time than lithium-ion batteries. It’s the kind of thing that might be able to help Google meet growing data center energy demands and maybe even stop its fossil fuel emissions from continuing to rise.

Google is partnering with the company Energy Dome that uses carbon dioxide to store renewable energy in the form of pressure and heat.

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