Researchers Have Found a Way to Bottle the Sun’s Energy, and It's in Liquid Form
The Daily Galaxy • • technology
Key Points:
- Researchers at UC Santa Barbara have developed a new liquid battery using a material called pyrimidone that captures and stores solar energy as heat, which can be released on demand.
- Pyrimidone functions like a rechargeable battery but stores energy as heat with an energy density more than double that of standard lithium-ion batteries, enabling compact and efficient solar energy storage.
- The stored heat energy in pyrimidone has been demonstrated to boil water under ambient conditions, highlighting its potential for off-grid heating applications such as home heating, hot water, and camping.
- The material is water-soluble and recyclable, allowing it to be pumped through solar collectors and reused repeatedly without significant loss of efficiency, addressing limitations of traditional battery systems.
- This breakthrough
