Using molten salt to store electricity isn’t just for solar thermal plants

“How can we make wind a more versatile energy source? By adding storage.

An energy storage startup that found its footing at Alphabet’s X “moonshot” division announced last week that it will receive $26 million in funding from a group of investors led by Breakthrough Energy Ventures, a fund that counts Jeff Bezos and Michael Bloomberg as investors and whose chairman is Bill Gates. The startup, called Malta, uses separate vats of molten salt and antifreeze-like liquid to store electricity as thermal energy and dispatch it to the grid when it’s needed…”

http://www.impactlab.net/2019/01/05/using-molten-salt-to-store-electricity-isnt-just-for-solar-thermal-plants/