article conveniently leaves out the fact that this is “storage” facility that attempts to “store” “green” electricity ...
The technology, while it looked great on paper, still has not arrived. Battery storage of electrical energy is still a very tricky proposition, and might never be perfected to the point of complete reliability, but then, what is?
The biggest problem is the control of the fire resulting from an amperage spike, from too great of either energy discharge or induction. Normal methods of fire suppression do not work, not even oxygen deprivation, as the energy continues to flow uncontrollably, re-igniting the blaze as the out-of-control chemical reactions, and the side reactions generate as much heat as an open blaze, if not more.
An oxygen-fed fire is almost comforting by comparison. These types of fire are more like a plasma arc, as found in an arc welder, and the heat is as intense as the surface of the sun.
If that’s the one I read about it’s needed to maintain the 60 cycle frequency destabilized by wind and solar.