“the lower energy density and increased operating temperature do not play a decisive role.”
ya because there are tons of energy problems demanding a lower energy density, higher operating temperature solution.
This is mostly a novelty of science, neat little piece of physics but not real practical in application.
Even the postulated battery use for solar or wind sound silly. The idea is make this huge warehouse to TEMPORARY store energy at a MUCH higher temperature.
Really? Who wants to maintain a large warehouse of batteries at temperatures of 200-400 degrees, and at that only as temporary storage.
But will they use up all the oxygen on earth to build them? Someone should invent a battery that uses carbon dioxide instead.
It’s the same old conundrum with wind and solar. You need to build TWO complete power plants — the primary wind or solar plant, then the huge battery plant to run for DAYS when the sun doesn’t shine and the wind doesn’t blow.
The economics of wind and solar make zero sense. You have to be a true-believer in climate apocalypse to think that an electricity system that is going to cost 2X to 3X what we have today is going to be successful and demanded by people.
I think it’s a race for the eco kooks. They have to get us so pregnant with wind and solar that, by the time we find out it’s an expensive joke, we can’t abort it.
We’ll probably waste a trillion dollars before the whole thing collapses like a house of cards and we scramble to build new nuclear and coal plants.
Consider this:
What would you charge utilities per kwh to capture & store energy to facilitate their federally mandated requirements?
I'm seeing dollar signs. Big time. Which means incredibly higher electricity prices in both the near & long term.