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Over broad ranges of assumed technology costs, electricity generated from decommissioned turbogenerators repowered by thermal energy storage in dirt could cost-effectively help meet electricity demand peaks currently met using fossil generators.

In our latest research paper, we find that in electricity systems reliant on wind, solar, and natural gas generation, thermal storage in dirt could play a key role in addressing seasonal electricity demand challenges, increasingly so with larger shares of wind and solar generation.

To the world: we’re sorry for their actions. They’re targeting us too. Americans rushed to help both reporters because the resistance is full of compassion. An attack on the free press is an attack on democracy itself.