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Our industry partners are targeting 1- to 5-megawatt systems. In 2023 we’ll be putting it all together into a recompression loop and then we’ll take it to even higher power output, and that’s when the commercial industry can take it from there. —Logan Rapp, a Sandia mechanical engineer who was involved in the test.
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