Many of the world’s hardest-to-decarbonize industries face a similar challenge: how to obtain the white-hot heat their operations need — without using fossil fuels.

Tempo, a San Diego-based startup that landed $31 million in venture investment on Wednesday, says it has found a clever way to achieve this task: using the power of chemical reactions to store energy at 1,500 degrees Celsius for hours at a time.

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