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The Grid Needs Storage, Not Every Storage Idea

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Grid-storage debates are usually framed as a contest among technologies. Lithium-ion batteries compete with flow batteries, compressed air, liquid air, gravity systems, iron-air and whatever new long-duration acronym has arrived with a funding announcement. That framing skips the more important system question: how much dedicated electrical storage is actually required … [continued]

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China Built A Supercritical CO₂ Generator. That Doesn’t Mean It Will Last.

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China recently placed a supercritical carbon dioxide power generator into commercial operation, and the announcement was widely framed as a technological breakthrough. The system, referred to as Chaotan One, is installed at a steel plant in Guizhou province in mountainous southwest China and is designed to recover industrial waste heat … [continued]

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