This sounds promising. I’m puzzled by what is used for the photovoltaics and how it can handle such high temperatures – 1000 deg C. The glowing ferrosilicon generates a lot of infrared so in order to have 40% efficiency the photovoltaics must convert a lot of the IR to electricity.<\/p>\n
https:\/\/www.pv-magazine.com\/2022\/03\/23\/latent-heat-thermophotovoltaic-battery-for-renewables-storage\/<\/a><\/u><\/p>\n I know a bit about thermovoltaics called thermopiles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This sounds promising. I’m puzzled by what is used for the photovoltaics and how it can handle such high temperatures – 1000 deg C. The glowing ferrosilicon generates a lot of infrared so in order to have 40% efficiency the photovoltaics must convert a lot of the IR to electricity. https:\/\/www.pv-magazine.com\/2022\/03\/23\/latent-heat-thermophotovoltaic-battery-for-renewables-storage\/ I know a bit <\/p>\n (Read More…)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[144,910,1989],"tags":[1987,1988,1986],"class_list":["post-17887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-battery-or-cell","category-liquid-metal","category-thermal-battery","tag-ferrosilicon","tag-high-temperature","tag-thermophotovoltaic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17887"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17889,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17887\/revisions\/17889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}