Scientists have engineered a water-soluble pyrimidone molecule that captures solar heat and releases it days or weeks later—enough to boil water on demand.
  • partial_accumen@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 days ago

    Yeah, thermal batteries are great mainly just when you actually want heat.

    Right, that’s what this new technology is, a liquid thermal battery. There’s not electricity or motion generated by the OP article, just storing heat.