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Right, but in that case you'll get way better efficiency out of pretty much any other proposed solution: gravity, momentum, battery solutions are all more effic
by fastball 6y ago
Right, but in that case you'll get way better efficiency out of pretty much any other proposed solution: gravity, momentum, battery solutions are all more efficient than this for storing energy from renewables.
- wcarron 6y agoBatteries are expensive. Iron is abundant and cheap, and these seem much less difficult/costly to build than to create a dam, for example. It also seems like it can make use of existing infrastructure and save money there.
- fastball 6y agoI don’t think the expense of other solutions justifies the abject inefficiency of this one though.
- chongli 6y agoYeah, or in the article’s case (where you’re brewing beer), you might as well use a solar furnace to boil water directly with sunlight. You’ll have a hard time beating that efficiency with other methods. If you have huge water storage tanks anyway then keeping the water hot overnight is not a problem either.