This problem safe, dense energy storage in an automobile with practical range, zero tailpipe emissions and a smaller carbon footprint has been on the blackboard a long time.

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Google, for instance, publicly lists its renewable energy holdings as well as its carbon footprint that it wants to reduce to zero.

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