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Greater than running a pump and using the expansion and contraction of gases, as there you’re doing work to reach thermal via mechanical energy, rather than in
by madaxe_again 3y ago
Greater than running a pump and using the expansion and contraction of gases, as there you’re doing work to reach thermal via mechanical energy, rather than in this, where you are directly going from electrical to thermal. It’s inherently more efficient.
- usrusr 3y agoIs it? But even if it can't out-COP conventional heat pumps, perhaps it can significantly improve on mechanical complexity. Then it would make latent heat capture accessible to use cases where heat pumps will never be economically deployed. Imagine those materials used in a wheel-based counterflow heat exchanger: the complexity added to that already existing product would be very low, the utility would increase a lot.