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  • poVoq@slrpnk.netM
    6·
    8 months ago

    This does indeed sound quite promising, especially if it can be combined with an end of pipe carbon capture technology in the same heavy industries while gradually replacing the fossile fuel use there.

    Those thermal PV cells for electricity recuperation are also cool, and 40% efficiency is not bad at all compared to pumped hydropower storage for example.

  • stoy@lemmy.zip
    51·
    8 months ago

    X

    I have read/watched/heard that “X is the future of Y” many, many times, and it very seldom happens.

      • stoy@lemmy.zip
        2·
        8 months ago

        It is not even that, there are just so, so many grifters and scamers who promise the world and then just steal the money.