ItWasntMe@discuss.online to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months agoA new liquid battery stores solar heat for weekswww.anthropocenemagazine.orgexternal-linkmessage-square35linkfedilinkarrow-up1270arrow-down14
arrow-up1266arrow-down1external-linkA new liquid battery stores solar heat for weekswww.anthropocenemagazine.orgItWasntMe@discuss.online to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months agomessage-square35linkfedilink
minus-squareJason2357@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·4 months agoYeah, thermal batteries are great mainly just when you actually want heat. Think district heating or industrial processes. Trying tk drive a turbine with it to do other work loses you an order of magnitude in efficiency.
minus-squarepartial_accumen@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 months ago Yeah, thermal batteries are great mainly just when you actually want heat. Right, that’s what this new technology is, a liquid thermal battery. There’s not electricity or motion generated by the OP article, just storing heat.
Yeah, thermal batteries are great mainly just when you actually want heat. Think district heating or industrial processes. Trying tk drive a turbine with it to do other work loses you an order of magnitude in efficiency.
Right, that’s what this new technology is, a liquid thermal battery. There’s not electricity or motion generated by the OP article, just storing heat.