thermal energy storage

“And unfortunately, at least from what I've seen, round trip efficiency kind of looks like flow battery round trip efficiency. And, you know, where the crossover with lithium ion costs, you know, in that eight to 10 hour range, Kind of looks similar too.”

“So actually being able to store, you know, clean, cheap electricity as heat and then deliver it as heat may have as much, if not more value than turning that heat back into electricity to put it back on the grid. So specifically for the industrial heat applica…”

“What you find when you pull on that thread is the box costs lots more than the rocks.”

“This entire class of solutions, every one of them is above about 95% efficient in capturing electricity and delivering continuous heat.”

“The core energy storage components of these materials can be in the ballpark of five dollars per kilowatt hour or lower.”