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Thankfully thermal batteries work just fine. In your example, using a/c before coming home to reduce the usage when sun is setting would be “wasteful”, but if t
by aaronblohowiak 5y ago
Thankfully thermal batteries work just fine. In your example, using a/c before coming home to reduce the usage when sun is setting would be “wasteful”, but if the energy is roughly free it doesn’t matter.
- pfdietz 5y agoThermal storage may also be very useful for intermediate term electric energy storage. https://www.energy.gov/sites/prod/files/2020/12/f81/SETO%20PTES%20Workshop%20NREL_Ma.pdf https://www.energy.gov/sites/prod/files/2020/12/f81/SETO%20P... This scheme would also allow backstop generation by using a fuel to reheat the storage material, potentially useful for "black swan" prolonged outages. The fluidized bed heat exchangers seem particularly interesting to me, if sufficiently low escape of particulate matter can be achieved.