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Re:US Government funds pilot project for heated sand energy ... by bumby on Friday April 05, 2024 @07:45PM (#39948625)
>Theoretically, higher temperatures mean more possible efficiency.

I think you might be conflating a few things here. For a cycle to produce electricity, that's correct. But the mechanism of absorption chillers is fundamentally different. The chemistry of the materials and their phase change temperatures are definitely a constraining factor. Could you, in theory, develop some other absorbent/refrigerant that works at those higher temperatures? I suppose, but I would suspect there are much easier ways to get efficiency gains.

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