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Westerdutch t1_ix3223w wrote

Reply to comment by saveable in Super-hot salt could be coming to a battery near you by Apart_Shock

> new type of battery

Its not even that. This is ww2 era technology and the theory existed well before that. 90% of the 'new battery technology' you read about is simply reintroducing the wheel to people who havent heard about it yet for clicks (and to milk investors). 90% of the remaining technology discussed in articles is stuff that will never work outside a lab environment and the 1% thats left might one day be interesting but is mostly just minor improvements on existing technology.

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TheHiveminder t1_ix33fa9 wrote

Incorrect. Previous designs stored energy as heat, this stores energy as a chemical reaction that requires heat.

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Westerdutch t1_ix3k0cf wrote

Thermal salt batteries do indeed exist but not all molten salt varieties are of the thermal kind. Check out the zebra battery for example, a very much 'chemical' molten salt battery form the 80s.

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