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syntaxingtoday at 12:12 AM1 replyview on HN

With the adoption of sodium batteries, I wouldn’t be surprised if solar panel + sodium battery would outperform this system by a lot.


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belviewreviewtoday at 1:46 AM

A heat pump gets more heat from a given amount of electricity than if the electricity is use for resistive heating. So the ideal design is solar cell + sodium battery + heat pump.