Researchers, using salt and water have invented a novel heat battery that could help warm houses in the cold regions and eliminate gas use entirely.
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Reported first by The Independent, the tech is based on an old thermochemical principle that states that when water is added to salt, it produces heat and the same is possible in reverse — heat can be used to evaporate the water.
Using this principle and storing heat within dry salt makes the battery loss-free and offers a rather efficient way to store energy for use in the future. However, it took nearly 12 years for this theory to be transformed into a scalable solution, which now has come into existence. In this solution, the heat source to store in the salt is derived from industrial byproducts such as residual heat…
‘Heat Batteries’ Developed Using Salt Could Eliminate Need Of Gas In Cold Regions
