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This is extremely exciting technology! Any energy science aficionado worth their salt knows that molten salt can have very high energy density.
by macawfish 8y ago
This is extremely exciting technology! Any energy science aficionado worth their salt knows that molten salt can have very high energy density.
- ElijahLynn 8y agoDo you have to keep the salt molten?
- macawfish 8y agoI believe it melts when it gets hot. Not sure if you need to keep it hot enough to stay molten... By the way, this is not new tech! What excited me here is the prospect of bringing these batteries into large scale production. Imo, this is the kind of thing that could transform how we heat and cool homes and other buildings. But right now it's quite niche and hard to access. Here's Wikipedia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molten-salt_battery?wprov=sfla1 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molten-salt_battery?wprov=sf...
- bayesian_horse 8y agoYou should take it with a grain of salt, tho.
- macawfish 8y agoHow can you even distinguish one grain from another once the molten situation kicks in?
- londons_explore 8y agoThe paper says that at around 600C, nearly all materials have the same energy density. Molten salt was chosen because it is a liquid, cheap, safe, and stable. The paper also considers using rocks, but they're tricky to pump...
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