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31/07/2017at 12:48

Alphabet wants to fix clean energy's storage problem with salt

The secretive research lab which hatched Google's driverless car is currently developing a renewable energy storage system involving vats of salt and antifreeze.
Photo: Martin Meissner/AP/POLFOTO
BY MARK BERGEN, BLOOMBERG

Alphabet Inc.'s secretive X skunk works has another idea that could save the world. This one, code named Malta, involves vats of salt and antifreeze. 

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