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by leoc 4009 days ago
> Probably best used in large industrial scenarios, e.g. storing excess energy from solar or wind, and fueling gas turbine generators at night or low-wind periods.

That's burying the lede a bit surely? If this process could actually be cheaper than nat. gas power plants as a backup for solar or wind grid electricity generation—or, of course, ideally if it could be cheaper than just forgetting about solar or wind and simply generating all that grid power using natural gas—then that would be big news, right? Any viable application to transport would just be icing on the cake.