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Now for power storage. Sure, you can set up on the poles and get continual sunshine, but other places it's a bit more challenging. Kinetic Energy Storage Syste
by pugworthy 4y ago
Now for power storage. Sure, you can set up on the poles and get continual sunshine, but other places it's a bit more challenging. Kinetic Energy Storage Systems (KESS) perhaps? Of course making batteries from regolith would be a rather holistic regolithic solution.
- abracadaniel 4y agoI wonder if thermal storage as a battery is more useful in space without an atmosphere to worry about. In general I wonder what kinds of processes are easier when everything is in a vacuum.
- FourHand451 4y agoDissipating heat in a vacuum is certainly more difficult, since it must all be done through radiation instead of convection. It follows that thermal storage would then be more efficient in a vacuum too. I couldn't say whether it would be "better enough" to make it a much more compelling option than it is on Earth though.
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