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Goid point. I do like "heat battery". My complaint was more that just "battery" implies storing electricity directly in common parlance these days, and the fac
by magicalhippo 1y ago
Goid point. I do like "heat battery".
My complaint was more that just "battery" implies storing electricity directly in common parlance these days, and the fact that the heat output is used directly is quite significant.
Had the headline called it a heat battery I would have had no complaints.
- s1mplicissimus 1y agoHeat battery sounds pretty accurate imo. There aren't really any batteries "storing electricity directly" though. Every battery type I'm aware of stores either potential (storage lake), mechanical (swing wheels), thermal (this type) or chemical (LitIo batteries) energy, which can then be transformed into electrical energy. Electricity itself seems to be very unwilling to be stored directly.