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		jerven 7 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Spain is about to face the challenge of a "black s... Yes, in theory, but your process control would be terrible, thus your product would also be terrible. Unless you invent something very clever.

BiteCode_dev 7 months ago [–]

But that makes them superb heat battery, which is under used at the moment to store energy.

pas 7 months ago | [–]

because of the Carnot cycle, no? it just doesn't make much sense to store energy as heat

BiteCode_dev 7 months ago | | [–]

A lot of energy is spent to heat things anyway.

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