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It's just the resistive heating tho. Sure, it might allow you to buy the electricity to produce heat at lower rate but it fundamentally does not change the amou
by xani_ 4y ago
It's just the resistive heating tho. Sure, it might allow you to buy the electricity to produce heat at lower rate but it fundamentally does not change the amount of energy you need to consume (well, increases it for losses).
- piva00 4y agoIt decreases the necessity of other types of batteries for this application, which is a substantial amount of energy consumed in the world. Better to have some hot bricks being used for heating i the industries, even with lower efficiency, than having to supply the same thermal energy by storing it as electricity in some chemical battery. Multipronged approaches are the only way for humans to become more energy-efficient.
- timbit42 4y agoIdeally you would want to use heat pumps which can produce up to 4 times as much heat as resistive heaters with the same amount of electricity. Another option might be concentrated solar power.