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Thermal Energy Storage Is No Longer Just Hot Air

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The bathtub is cheap for us, so when it comes to how much we can store, we can increase that capacity quite cheaply,” says Michael Simpson , the cofounder of Cheesecake Energy. Getting a 100 percent decarbonized grid is nothing but an optimization problem.”—Matthew When does it make sense to buy electricity directly from the grid?