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Besides insulation, there's no hope of storing thermal energy as steam because the density is 1000 times lower than ice or water while the specific heat is simi
by sacrosancty 5y ago
Besides insulation, there's no hope of storing thermal energy as steam because the density is 1000 times lower than ice or water while the specific heat is similar, so the heat capacity per unit volume is about 1000 times lower.
- SECProto 5y agoStoring heat as steam is actually very good and efficient - as long as you're storing the heat for location shifting, not temporal shifting. It's regularly used in combined heat + power plants (Yeah, I know I'm being both pedantic and off topic, since the discussion here is specifically about seasonal storage)
- sacrosancty 5y agoDoesn't the word "storing" already mean temporal shifting?