Alphabet spinoff Malta raises $26M for technology to store power in molten salt

Re:Alphabet spinoff Malta raises $26M for technology to stor... by partingshots on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @09:26PM (#18722016)

A lot of the fundamentals have actually already been researched and at least in academia, the various ideas have all been out there for quite a few decades now.

The main impetus has been in getting the funding to kickstart everything, and backing from Alphabet with strong financial support plus an intellectual talent from subsidiaries (Google, X, etc.) to pool from is the killer combination here in my opinion.

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Re:Alphabet spinoff Malta raises $26M for technology to stor... by iso1337 on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @11:16PM (#18722460)

Have any links to share?

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Re:Alphabet spinoff Malta raises $26M for technology to stor... by partingshots on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @11:30PM (#18722524)

https://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.4994054

This is the paper the Malta team uses in their blog (https://blog.x.company/introducing-malta-81bceb559061) on explaining how the system works at large. It’s a pretty good summary.

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Re:Alphabet spinoff Malta raises $26M for technology to stor... by jabl on Thursday December 20, 2018 @04:01AM (#18723432)

And in case anyone is wondering, yes, it's the same Bob Laughlin that won the 1998 Nobel prize in physics for the theory behind the fractional quantum Hall effect.

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