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MIT researchers have innovatively used carbon black, cement, and water to create building materials that double as energy-storing supercapacitors, offering potential solutions to renewable energy storage challenges.

Dealing with our climate crisis continues to be top of mind, although batteries, magnets, and exotic elements also captured the imagination.

Pioneering Framework Could Reduce Energy Demand in Buildings Heating and cooling buildings is a large part of global energy demand and a significant source of CO2 and greenhouse gas emissions, and in the coming decades the energy demand for heating and cooling – also known as thermal energy – is expected to grow considerably. Scientists and engineers have made many advances in lowering building energy demand by improving energy efficiency in building technologies and reducing energy loss th...