Scientists have engineered a water-soluble pyrimidone molecule that captures solar heat and releases it days or weeks later—enough to boil water on demand.
Yeah, thermal batteries are great mainly just when you actually want heat. Think district heating or industrial processes. Trying tk drive a turbine with it to do other work loses you an order of magnitude in efficiency.
Yeah, thermal batteries are great mainly just when you actually want heat. Think district heating or industrial processes. Trying tk drive a turbine with it to do other work loses you an order of magnitude in efficiency.