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Giant Rhubarb Battery may save the World (Really!)

Giant Rhubarb Battery may save the World (Really!)

contributors 01/15/2014

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(By Tina Casey)

Hook Up Your Solar Panels To A Giant Rhubarb Battery (via Clean Technica)

Yes, all you rhubarb fans take note. A new energy storage breakthrough is under way at Harvard University, and it is based on a common little molecule that is almost exactly the same as one found in rhubarb. The rhubarbesque molecule is part of a group…

 

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