Solar energy storage breakthrough could make European households self-sufficient

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Solar energy storage breakthrough could make European households self-sufficient
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I dont see any electrical units in this article

Watt?? That's a heck of an ohmission.

Take my upvote and leave. >:(

Why such resistance to comedy?

If you get all amped up about it, it just induces more jokes.

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The company's website quotes a storage density of 3.5 kWh/kg and a storage system taking up 3 cubic meters beving able to store 100,000 kWh: https://www.photoncycle.com/technology

I tried to find the patent but it sounds like the application process isn't complete yet.

These are the kind of claims you hear from a startup seeking its next round of funding. I'd take it with a huge grain of salt.

I'd take it with an amount of salt resembling the Dead Sea. This is absolutely fake.

the numbers do seem absurdly high. That's 5 times higher energy density than the current state-of-the-art

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