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Giant 'sand battery' holds a week's heat for a whole town (newatlas.com)

submitted 7 months ago by mac@programming.dev to c/tech@programming.dev

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[–] blackstampede@sh.itjust.works 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

They didn't say, but I'm wondering what the loss is when you convert the heat back into electricity. I assume they're boiling water and turning turbines with it- I can't imagine they're losing too much.

[–] OhmsLawn@lemmy.world 14 points 7 months ago (1 children)

They're using heat exchangers to add it to the municipal heating loop. No electricity involved on that side.

[–] blackstampede@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 months ago

I saw that, but they said it could be converted to heat with a loss.