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MIT's concrete battery just got 10 times more powerful | Researchers found a way to combine cement, water, and carbon black to create a 'supercapacitor', expanding the storage capacity by nearly 10 times.


Scientists have been working for the last few years on enhancing concrete – arguably the most common construction material on the planet – to store energy. That includes researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), who found a way to combine cement, water, and carbon black to create…

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