Very cool to see low-cost thermal storage taken to its logical conclusion, big piles of hot dirt
Storing natural gas is nearly free, 1000x cheaper than batteries per kilowatt-hour. Solar PV needs storage that cheap. I'm leading Standard Thermal to do this. Our testing over 2 years has overcome some of the biggest barriers, so I wrote about it.
austinvernon.substack.com/p/building-ult…
