GE Is Working On A Way To Turn CO2 Pollution Into Solar Batteries

The storage device would be small enough to fit on a shelf, yet power 100,000 homes.

GE has announced it is working on a way to use CO2 pollution to make new types of solar batteries that could each power up to 100,000 homes. CO2 is the main contributor to climate change, and is released into the atmosphere when coal is processed at power plants. Currently environmental procedures mean that some CO2 from these plants is captured and stored, so it's not released back into the atmosphere. But the question has always been: What do you do with the stored gas?

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