Scientists “bottle the sun” with a liquid battery that stores solar energy

Trees also store the sun, and can release it back as heat.

Blackberries store the sun too, and later release it as wine or jam :)

Not clear from the very fluffy press release how one gets this pyrimidone to start releasing enough energy to boil water while it maintains 60% better energy density than lithium ion batteries.

I’d personally want to understand that before making any big plans, but this sounds cool.

It sure would be nice to see some way to harness all this energy falling around us. I'd far prefer to just catch a few rays to charge my toys than plug into some far distant machine.

I remember thinking, in my youth, that the technology that enabled CASIO calculation would one day be applied as well to a bigger Turing machine, but I'm yet to see a solar-powered computer.

I sure wish it'd happen, though. All these magic solar energy storage/conversion systems need to start showing up on SOM/SOC's, imho ..

Stores it for return as heat. Which is useful, but not nearly as useful as returning it as electricity would be.

Still, if it could be stored stably in the summer and converted to heat in the winter then possibly helpful.

I wonder how the efficiencies compare to producing hydrogen or other burnable gases.

This sounds like an explosive breakthrough.

also see:

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aec6413