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by petermcneeley 3065 days ago
I think you might be wrong but my thermal is very rusty. Where you are wrong is that you might be forgetting the over 100% efficiency in heat transfer when using a heat pump.

http://energystorage.org/energy-storage/technologies/pumped-...

https://www.economist.com/news/technology-quarterly/21603184...

http://wordpress.ei.columbia.edu/lenfest/files/2012/11/Abstr...

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You are right, I stand corrected. If instead of the ambient temperature, we have a cryogenic storage tank, getting 60% round-trip may be feasible in large scale.