This shows promise. A very good development. New tech ftw!
>Pilot tests of ‘game-changing’ salt batteries are set to take place in homes in France, Poland and the Netherlands this year
* If you just want to store electricity for the grid as an aggregate, why are you installing little storage systems in homes instead of big ones at some storage site? Why make it harder to maintain/upgrade/etc than keeping systems at some energy storage site? I’m not saying that there are no reasons to do something like that, but you’d be more aiming for that if lack of access to the electrical grid is a problem (not an issue for most users) or lack of *reliable* access to the electrical grid is a problem (kind of a separate issue from what the author is talking about here, buffering energy to deal with unreliable renewable sources feeding the grid).
* If you just want to buffer energy over a short period of time, one established, viable way to go about doing it is by the low-tech, low-maintenance route of just increasing [thermal mass](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_mass) of a building, which passively “smooths” out the temperature change between day and night.
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This shows promise. A very good development. New tech ftw!
>Pilot tests of ‘game-changing’ salt batteries are set to take place in homes in France, Poland and the Netherlands this year
* If you just want to store electricity for the grid as an aggregate, why are you installing little storage systems in homes instead of big ones at some storage site? Why make it harder to maintain/upgrade/etc than keeping systems at some energy storage site? I’m not saying that there are no reasons to do something like that, but you’d be more aiming for that if lack of access to the electrical grid is a problem (not an issue for most users) or lack of *reliable* access to the electrical grid is a problem (kind of a separate issue from what the author is talking about here, buffering energy to deal with unreliable renewable sources feeding the grid).
* If you just want to buffer energy over a short period of time, one established, viable way to go about doing it is by the low-tech, low-maintenance route of just increasing [thermal mass](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_mass) of a building, which passively “smooths” out the temperature change between day and night.
Better source: https://www.tue.nl/en/news-and-events/news-overview/25-04-2022-how-the-eindhoven-heat-battery-can-quickly-make-millions-of-homes-gas-free/