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We could just store the surplus renewables in molten salt and don‘t need nuclear for anything.
by VyperCard 5y ago
We could just store the surplus renewables in molten salt and don‘t need nuclear for anything.
- apendleton 5y agoIf what we have is electricity, turning it into heat to turn it back into electricity again is very inefficient. If what we have is heat and we're going to turn it into electricity anyway, storing it as heat for now and turning it into electricity later is much better, and comparatively trivial to do. That somewhat limits the applications, though, with concentrated solar being the only obvious renewable one. Solar PV and wind don't generate electricity from heat.