You mean melting the salt using electricity with excess capacity?
I'm not an expert but I'm guessing we don't do this because the process of converting heat back to electricity is pretty inefficient. I think I saw someone say you only capture 1/3rd of the energy when you do that.
However, if you're already starting with heat and need to convert it to electricity, you can just store it for later conversion.
I'm not an expert but I'm guessing we don't do this because the process of converting heat back to electricity is pretty inefficient. I think I saw someone say you only capture 1/3rd of the energy when you do that.
However, if you're already starting with heat and need to convert it to electricity, you can just store it for later conversion.