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> This isn't new...

Well, yeah, this is in the opening of the article:

> It updates a long-standing technology that never took off for electrical storage.

There is/was plant operational since 1970s in Germany[1], which looks similar to the Wired article, but different from some other solutions posted in comments. Missing some parts perhaps to be viable.

1. PDF: http://www.fze.uni-saarland.de/AKE_Archiv/AKE2003H/AKE2003H_...



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