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Engineering360: "An ENDURING approach to thermal energy storage"

10/28/2021 1:00 PM

Read Engineering360 article: An ENDURING approach to thermal energy storage.
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Re: An ENDURING approach to thermal energy storage

10/28/2021 1:43 PM

It seems that storing electrical energy as heat would mean that even if no heat was lost, the cost of Carnot efficiency has to be paid to convert back into useable electricity. Other forms of energy storage not involving heat avoid this factor.
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