The author appears to be unfindable, the abstract is clearly talking about something close to this but also mentions adapting existing UK based fossil fuel powerplants, lowballs a bunch of estimates, and somehow brings up a seemingly completely unrelated process that is also well-trodden ground in the distant past but hasn't been used in a century: A way to take the MnCl2 (Manganese-chloride) that is the waste product of an old timey way to make chlorine gas, and get yourself the manganese back out so you can recycle the process.
Which flummoxes me because the castner process was the one that _does not_ involve any chlorine. Perhaps the author of this paper is referring to the general principle here, which again is a mystery to me because the castner cycle I am referring to (sodium as an energy transport; [sodium + water] -> [heat, h2, caustic soda] to 'consume' it, [caustic soda + energy -> water, sodium] to produce it) doesn't have waste product at all other than water.
Which flummoxes me because the castner process was the one that _does not_ involve any chlorine. Perhaps the author of this paper is referring to the general principle here, which again is a mystery to me because the castner cycle I am referring to (sodium as an energy transport; [sodium + water] -> [heat, h2, caustic soda] to 'consume' it, [caustic soda + energy -> water, sodium] to produce it) doesn't have waste product at all other than water.
How did you find this? It's.. fascinating.