Alphabet makes move into energy storage

Posted on 15 Aug 2017 by Michael Cruickshank

Technology conglomerate Alphabet has revealed that it is actively investigating new methods of storing energy.

Renewable energy such as wind power suffers from intermittent generation capacity. Image courtesy of Wikipedia – Chris Lim. The company’s special projects division, known as ‘X’, has been working on a number of so-called ‘Explorations’, including one called Malta, which is aiming to find a radical new way to store the…

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