Comment on Firebrick thermal energy storage could reach 170 GW in the U.S. by 2050
yogurtwrong@lemmy.world 4 months ago
This seems like a stupid idea at first but it’s actually amazing. They mix high resistance metals into bricks so the bricks can conduct electricity and heat up while doing that. I’m gonna drop these papers here. First one is more of a brief intro and the second one is about practicality of such systems