The winner of the 2021 Nokia Bell Labs Prize is proposing a remarkable new use for carbon, the primary source of global greenhouse gas. Instead of burning carbon in the form of coal and other fossil fuels to produce energy, Asegun Henry wants to use carbon as the primary means of storing energy generated from renewable sources like solar. Such a technology could go a long way to shedding our reliance on fossil fuels and cutting CO2 emissions.
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