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Remarkable reusable liquid stores solar energy like bottled sunlight

4 points| westurner | 4 days ago |newatlas.com

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westurner|4 days ago

> Lastly, in one of the ultimate tests of energy storage, the UCSB pyrimidone system achieves an energy density of about 1.6 MJ per kilogram, approximately double that of a standard lithium-ion battery at around 0.9 MJ/kg!

ScholarlyArticle: "Molecular solar thermal energy storage in Dewar pyrimidone beyond 1.6 MJ/kg" (2026) https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aec6413