Batteries of the future: How cotton and seawater might power our devices

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7. Should a time come where primary energy is clean...

...energy storage might be acceptable under limited conditions.

The least destructive way to store energy, say for load leveling at a nuclear plant, is as thermal energy, for instance, a molten salt with high heat capacity.

If we capture exergy fron the high temperatures available from nuclear fuels, to produce a very clean fuel like dimethyl ether, this in affect is stored energy, obtained from what night have been waste heat. This idea, called "process intensification" is now widely discussed in engineering literature.

There is a solution to this problem, I believe, but whether it actually is embrace that solution seems somewhat improbable.