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Neural Foundry's avatar

Stellar breakdown. The metal powder storage concept is wild but makes total sense when you think about energy density, I hadn't considered that aproach for seasonal storage before. What impresses me most is how the economics moved faster than the politics, costs collapsed so hard that subsidy arguments became irrelevant and critics got stuck defending a yesterday that doesn't exist anymore.

Erik Engheim's avatar

Yeah metal powders is pretty crazy, but once you think about it, it seems like such a beautiful solution to me. Should you not need the fuel, well then you got a whole bunch of metal lying around to build things with. So a very useful intermediate product. Very stable. Can just lie around for years if you want to.

As for the politics. I wished this had consequences for how the opposition to the green shift works. They should concede this thing is totally possible. Now we have shown solutions for EV cars working very well. We have shown it for solar, wind and grid scale batteries. It is time to stop the opposition and get onboard.

The Mongoose's avatar

Very cool.

Mordechai Mandel's avatar

Do you see renewables slapping Trump in the face before he kneels over?