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by TheSpiceIsLife 1448 days ago
The key here is: this isn't a battery.

It's electricity powered thermal storage for municipal heating.

Which, in my opinion, is a smart idea. Why bother converting the heat back to electric to end up being used to generate heat in homes.

You could use this as a heat sink at the home attached to a high efficiency heat pump for 6:1 thermal efficiency.

We could do with municipal heating here in Tasmania